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Stig / Major Tom

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Re: Coldest you've been out in?
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2020, 12:32:05 AM »
TODAY!  Seriously, this is the first winter that I am riding a scooter.  When I started today, it was 38F, warmed to 42.  I broke out the heated gear.  I have a first gear jacket liner and gloves and a gerbing dual controller.  It roasted me on 5... I had to stop after 5 minutes and turn it down to 1. I ran like that for about 2 hours and started getting a little chilled... and set it up to 3.   That got me home.  I did a  a circumnavigation of Lake Lanier... about 115 miles... in about 3 hours and 45 minutes.


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Re: Coldest you've been out in?
« Reply #16 on: January 20, 2020, 01:04:02 AM »
Georgia:

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Re: Coldest you've been out in?
« Reply #17 on: January 20, 2020, 11:16:10 PM »
And for the second day in a row... TODAY!   Today started cold... 36F.   By the time I got back home, it was 32F!   I am pretty sure that some of the shaded/icy north sides of the mountains were in the 20s.  I ran heated gear... jacket liner and glove liner.  The jacket was toasty, but the gloves that were plugged into the jacket were too cold.   Next time, Im putting them on a separate controller.    But that jacket! My core was nice and warm even at the lowest temp I hit today.  Anyway, I started out trying to do a mirror image of the Suches Loop ,but ran into all kinds of dirt roads that weren't listed as so in Basecamp.  It slowed me down by an hour and a half.  No problem, except that I was exposed an extra hour and a half. The Downtown ran that jacket and not once did I feel like I was too cold. Total mileage: 81.8 miles.

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2014 Vespa GTS 300i
2016 Vespa GTS 300i

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