| Author | Message | ||
     Steveford |
A Firstgear Hypertex suit just showed up today and this is one of the things I wish I'd bought decades ago. Real heavy duty everything, three outside and one inside pocket, you'll be baking if you wear it inside for more than 5 minutes. It looks like they've been discontinued but they're all over eBay and available at Amazon at the moment. https://www.amazon.com/Firstgear-Thermo-One-Piece- Large-Black/dp/B0018EPQBU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1 544746550&sr=8-1&keywords=firstgear+thermo+1-piece +suit | ||
| Rocketman22 |
Nice suit! So did you buy it or not? And I bought a jacket Viking Cycle Asger on garagemasterblog.com , made a gift for myself on Christmas, because I wanted it for a long time. | ||
| Hootowl |
I used to use a snowmobile suit with a one piece rain suit over that. Was good to about 15 degrees. | ||
| Hootowl |
The rain suit looks a lot like the first gear suit linked above. | ||
| Jaimec |
I remember when the old Cycle Magazine got their hands on an infrared camera and started doing all kinds of evaluations with it. One of them was rating how much heat escaped from various winter riding suits available at the time. The one that retained the best heat was a two piece suit made by Bates. I bought that suit, and even in single digit (Fahrenheit) temperatures I was perfectly comfortable wearing a T-shirt and slacks underneath. I loved that suit and had it up until an a**hole decided he didn't like being stuck in traffic so decided to cross the double yellow in a blind curve and hit me head-on. Bates no longer makes that suit. I guess with the advent of electric gear, decent insulated suits went the way of the dodo. | ||
| Zac4mac |
I have a Scorpion Exo jacket and pants. The jacket is the warmest jacket I've ever worn and the pants are warm too but a total PITA to get on - No leg zippers so I have to put them on with my boots off. They don't get much use. For bottoms, I have a pair of Carhartt overalls. Legs zip to the hips so on/off with boots is a breeze. Z | ||
| Hootowl |
I used those suits to commute from Seattle to Bremerton, via Tacoma Narrows, for almost 5 years. When it was in the teens, people looked at me like I was nuts. Until the long walk (half a mile) from the parking lot to the ship, when they were freezing and I was snug as a bug in a rug. | ||
| Ourdee |
Leg zippers to the hips are the trick. I need to look for a new pair. | ||
| Screamer |
A Director where I used to work (in Wisconsin) bet a Buell Adventurer suit that I couldn't ride to work all winter. I told him that if he provided a bike I'd do it. I rode it (1998 S3T) until early February when I got a panicked phone call from him asking "you're not still riding that bike are you???" When I told him yes, he said you have to turn it in, you're not supposed to ride company bikes after November 1st. I turned the bike in, but I kept the suit. The Adventurer suit (with the quilted liners) was warm to single digits, but kind of bulky. Now I use either a heated vest (Powerlet) or heated jacket/pants (Gerbring) under Icon pants and Tourmaster Jacket. It's worked well down to single digits but I haven't (and won't) ridden in that cold of weather in about two years. |
