Wet weather riding!

WTF

I like it but i have to invest in some new gear this weekend - Cold wet nuts are a distraction!

What do you recommend? I need to be dry when i get to work and not 15 mins late because im in the disabled toilets, butt nekid, drying my boxers on a hand dryer!!!!

What wet suit do you guys use and recommend, and also where can i buy one this weekend in the south east?

Same goes for gloves. My Dainese short tracks aint ****ting it in the wet!

One other area of advise i really need to get in on is visors. I spent £220 on my Shoei XR-1000 and its crap in the wet. Pinlock installed ok, tightened the little fastners to seal it better, used rain-x but i still think it impeades my vision too much.

HELP!

[fizzwheel]

How much money do you want to spend ? Do you want just an oversuit to go over your leathers or are you looking for new textile stuff ?

As for the visor, whats the problem is it misting up even with the pinlock, if so try getting a foggy respro mask to fit inside your lid, it stops your breathe going onto the visor and foggy it up, works a treat.

Bob Heath Vee-wipe. Its the greatest thing I ever bought...

Lidl - Got my gloves and jacket there, gloves where 15 quid and the jacket about 60. I've had the gloves 2 winters now and are still waterproof compared to some 80quid ones I have had before that lasted only one session. The jacket has worked well so fa, but does seem to suffer from a iffy finish in that I keep finding the off stray thread. Haven't tested it in really heavy rain yet.

My trousers are from HG, 200 quid ones and gortex, only reason I could aford them was as part of a insurance claim replacement. But they are great, they have pasted 2 winters themselves and a crash in which my bike landed on me.

Knox stowaway back protector - 60 quid, it to saved my back after I flipped the bike and it landed on me.

hi breakz187,

i use the bike every day for work and used to be sodden all day...no fancy dryers here!!!!!!!...

anyway i got this from busters for £30...they had offer at time so i also got free overmiitts and overboots..although its a pain putting it all on in the morning i am bone dry head to toe when i get into work...even today ands proper p***ing down in bristol i would recommend these not just as a budget item..but as a WILL keep you bone dry option.....

http://www.busters-accessories.co.uk...TECH71PSRBG5XL

My old textile kit is Gericke Voyager 2 Shelltex stuff that I bought about 7 years ago. It still doesn't leak but is looking tired so being replaced with Held gear (I just bought a Held Gizmo jacket and trousers are to follow). I'm still using Gericke Pathan gloves bought at the same time when it's really cold, and a pair of Gericke Valley gloves when the weather is wet but not as cold - both are Shelltex lined. My winter boots are Daytona RoadStar GTX, the GTX means they are Goretex lined, I have Goretex lined Oxtar race boots for summer. The Daytonas are about the same age as my Gericke kit and still waterproof but need a resole and tidy up.

I don't get cold or wet in winter so I'm happy with the stuff I bought, it was all quite reasonably priced considering the approx 70,000 miles it's all done.

Originally Posted by Grinch

Knox stowaway back protector - 60 quid, it to saved my back after I flipped the bike and it landed on me.

My Knox Stowaway has done its job twice for me. Once when I was deliberately knocked off my Bandit 600 on the M25 and landed under a stationary truck, and then again when I punted my current SV into the back of a Honda Accord. Both times I banged into the vehicle with my back, and both times I didn't feel any pain or suffer any injury - Knox back protectors are worth every penny spent, and then some.

Great recommendations.

Im ordering a face mask thing right now, and probably that little wiper gizmo.

I need to buy leathers and replace these crappy borrowed rst textiles.

I'll take a look at all of those suggestions and buy some stuff asap. I commute from brighton to crawley each and every day in whatever weather and i'll spend whatever i need to in order to get to work warm and dry. The cage is up for sale!

Cheers.

[fizzwheel]

Remember leathers are not going to be waterproof, so if you are going down that route, look for an oversuit to put on over the top if it rains otherwise you're going to get even wetter than you are at the moment.

I get a little steam/misting inside the visor over the pinlock insert. Its ahrd to keep water out of the visor. Open it for one second in the wet and you screw up the nice dry environment inside. Im talking about just a couple of little drips.

This steaming i can live with, but even with rain x on the front of the visor, turning my head on the motorway, i still find its not good enough to see. I mean, i can do it but would have thought that in this day and age there must be something than doesnt need reapplying every other day. Maybe some nano technology base visor...? *dreams*

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

How much money do you want to spend ? Do you want just an oversuit to go over your leathers or are you looking for new textile stuff ?

As for the visor, whats the problem is it misting up even with the pinlock, if so try getting a foggy respro mask to fit inside your lid, it stops your breathe going onto the visor and foggy it up, works a treat.

[Luckypants]

Last year I bought a Spada Circuit jacket and Spada Podium pants (no longer on Spada website). These have been great, keeping me toasty warm and dry over the winter. I did not do a huge number of miles over the winter (2000 maybe?) so not destruction tested, but for the money I am mighty impressed.

I asked a similar question last year before buying my textiles, so might be worth looking here?