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Originally Posted by ZeroDown!
If you really want to ride when it's cold, go to a snowmobile dealer and check out a leather suit. Arctic Cat's color is GREEN, by the way.... 
Seriously, I used to be a very avid, rabid snowmobiler - running for 8 hours on a 200 mile ride in -20 and under weather (upstate New Hampshire in the White Mountains gets C-C-C-O-OLLLLLLDDD-D-D-D....) and come home feeling like you want to go another hundred miles is all dependent on your gear.
I have a full leather bib and jacket Arctic Cat suit that I've had since the early 1980's - and it still works great after all these years. It's the old saw of "you get what you pay for"; I did spend some coin on it, but it's saved my life once and I'll have it on starting soon when the temps hit the 40's at night here in PA.
Snowmobile gloves also help quite a bit - you can get the 'racer' gloves that have the index finger split off from the other fingers (think two sections to a mitten) that helps keep the middle, ring and pinky nice and warm since they are together in the mitt section instead of being separated like with a regular glove.
Good luck in the hunt! |
Thanks for the info. Does the suit go on over your street clothes and if so, how much of a hassle is it to get on and off?