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| Seat Tester Joined: May 2006
Bike: Red 2005 Suzuki M50
Location: Scotia, New York
Posts: 89
| I ride usually on weekends until they start salting the roads. Then I winterize and pack it away. -Red
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| In Training ![]() Joined: Oct 2007
Bike: 2006 Silver M50
Location: Northfield, Ohio
Posts: 144
| This is my first season of riding. I ride back and forth to work which is 25 miles one way of mostly freeway. I just got my M50 so I want to ride it. I found that 45 degrees F is about my lower limit. Roger L |
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| Fender Buffer ![]() Joined: Jul 2007
Bike: 2007 M50
Location: Arlington, TX
Posts: 420
| Right now I go until about 40. Below 40 and I get real cold real fast, and a cold biker tends to not be as safe a biker. Now, if I get some better cold weather gear, I may ride all winter (save for rain/snow/ice).
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| Ditch Magnet ![]() Joined: May 2007
Bike: 06 M50
Location: Nassau,Long Island
Posts: 182
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God knows the guy in the bmw suv with the heated seats and the cell phone to the ear isn't looking out for you and it's hard to see him when your teeth are chattering soo hard your eyes bounce!!
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| U.B's LoveChild ![]() Joined: Jan 2007
Bike: 06 M50 in Bluuuuuuuuue
Location: Sodus, NY
Posts: 1,034
| I'll ride down into the hig 30's, but no further. Mid 30's, and you're asking for some hidden frost/icey stuff on the road that you might not see. Once there's salt out, I'm done. Too much of a hassle to ride in it, and I don't like the idea of rust. For the record, I run a set of firstgear winter gloves, my joe rocket/boulevard leather with the liner in, and a set of tourmaster textile pants. (over my regular pants, they cut the wind nice)
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| Refrigerator Magnet Test Engineer ![]() Joined: Oct 2006
Bike: Kawasaki Zephyr750RS, Suzuki GSX-R600, Ducati 999S
Location: Crappy Little Island!!!
Posts: 3,650
| I ride all winter too but my lowest limit will be about 40. I use tons of those hot patches stuck all over myself to keep me warm. Usually they stay warm for the whole day. I even use small sized ones to stick inside my gloves. They are winter gloves but my hands get all numb and start hurting when they're too cold.
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| Clunked into first gear ![]() Joined: Oct 2006
Bike: 07 Suzuki M50
Location: Fort Mill, SC 29707
Posts: 202
| with electric wear, down to mid 30's is doable. After that, I just don't trust the road. <story> Riding my V65 Sabre in England back in 1995. It was DAMNED cold, somewhere around the end of Dec. then. But, a clear and bright day. So a day not to be wasted over there! On the way to work, riding on small rutted back road, as I was heading downhill with the road bending to the left both of my tires crossed over into the slight depression of the ruts. This is where the, then, liquid form of water had collected earlier the previous night. Apparently during the night it had turned into its solid form and both wheels slide to the right exactly the width of the rut and back onto solid, dry, tarmac. Needless to say I had to change my shorts when I got to work. But as I look back, it was cool that the rotating wheels kept the bike upright nicely during this little maneuver. </story> So yeah, if the ground is cold enough to let ice form, no motorcycling for me.
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| It's A Conspiracy ![]() Joined: May 2005
Bike: '06 XB12X
Location: 30 41'47.99" N 83 11'26.54" W Hold My Beer
Posts: 9,520
| Once it dips below 70....I'm done. After that....it's plug in the electric gear.
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| Ditch Magnet ![]() Joined: May 2007
Bike: 06 M50
Location: Nassau,Long Island
Posts: 182
| Does anyone know what temp the stock tires are rated for? I had summer tires on my car and when it got around 40degrees they got hard and acted like ice skates on dry road. Do the stock M50 tires have a min. temp. limit?
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| Can Ride And Chew Gum ![]() Joined: Aug 2004
Bike: 2005 C50
Location: Selma, Alabama
Posts: 2,048
| Below 40F I'm done - fortunately that doesn't happen often here
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| Ditch Magnet ![]() Joined: Apr 2007
Bike: 2006 Vulcan 1600 Classic and 1980 kz750(project)
Location: OC Oregon
Posts: 166
| Low forties and high thirties are my limit. If it looks like there might be ice I back off and go home. Last year my first winter with a bike my father-in-law and I got caught in about 1 inch of slush on the road and that was a bit nerve wracking. Other than that I ride when I find the time rain sun or cold.
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| Forensic Bug Splatter Analyst ![]() Joined: Jun 2006
Bike: 06 Suzuki Boulevard C50T
Location: Gordon Texas Latitude: 32.54833 Longitude: -98.36889
Posts: 4,027
| Already rode at 33f this year this fall it waz last week.
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| Found second gear by accident ![]() Joined: Nov 2005
Bike: '06 C50
Location: City by the Sea,Tx
Posts: 344
| Got Gerbing gloves this year so I'll see how low I can stand it...supposed to get the jacket liner for christmas. In case your wondering why I need them in Texas, it's because some of the best riding comes when the fronts blow thru and the weather is more predictable for a few days. I ride in almost 70 miles to work at sometimes 3AM and I used to freeze my extremities to the bones. Just with the heated gloves I am 110% more comfortable down at 38° running 70-75 for over an hour non-stop. I have found that in the past the cold didn't set in till about 30 miles out and it was hell the rest of the way in, now with my Gerbing's I'm good all the way in... Damn I sound like a testimonial on a infomercial, (in a monotone voice, arms to the sides, standing stiff and upright, while looking into the camera)" I can't bee-lieve how good they work, you too should get Gerbing's heated clothing and...'feel the warmth'..." Hahaha...LOL...sorry I need sleep...
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