Cold Weather
Sunday, January 11th, 2009Damn its cold! -8 degs, it gets chilly on an hours commute.
So here’s my setup….
Top
Jacket: Revit with waterproof and thermal layer.
Additional Wind Proofing: Local Paper
Heated Vest: Maplin £20 (Keeps your core warm on the motorway)
Fleece: Patagonia R1 (Very Expensive and very good but suspect M&S Thermal isn’t far behind and less that £20)
Thermal Top: Marks and Spencer’s Thermal Long Sleeved Top (Very very good I think Ride gave them top marks in a recent test and less than £20)
Office Shirt: Whatever’s cleanish
T-Shirt: Whatever’s clean
Bottom
Layer 1: Marks and Spencer’s Thermal Long pants with Merino Wool (They have a few different ones).
Layer 2: AlpineStar Touring Leathers
Boots: Daytona Gore-Tex (Covered 60k miles in all weathers, these boots are exceptionally warm)
The outer layer survived a 50mph slide down a dual carriageway leaving the occupant without a mark
Also a good set of handle bar muffs work wonders, cheap ones do nothing they let in too much cold air.
This setup works well for me. I would love to here about anything better or other recommendations for winter kit.