Too cold for riding?
- Thread starter Greg Masters
- Start date
Muffs
There's a thread on the ADVrider site on his subject here:
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9573&perpage=15&pagenumber=1
They recommend a muff made specifically for the GS, which fits over the handguard & mirror without unbolting anything etc. This is the website:
http://www.connection.com/~dank
HTH
MikeO
There's a thread on the ADVrider site on his subject here:
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9573&perpage=15&pagenumber=1
They recommend a muff made specifically for the GS, which fits over the handguard & mirror without unbolting anything etc. This is the website:
http://www.connection.com/~dank
HTH
MikeO
is the act of fitting muffs to one's motorcycle the same as that known as muffin the mule or am I thinking of something quite different?
Bike Bear
Guest
Muffs can drag on both brake and clutch levers, but shouldn't be a problem on a GS with handguards...
roger miles
Guest
Was told a story the other day by a Motorcycle instructor acquaintance of mine over the weekend....
During a visit by the supervising DSA examiner to a M/C training school a few years ago, he stated that he and his colleagues were happy enough with the quality of instruction of some students coming for their test, but felt the way they were giving their hand signals was a little too “flamboyant”. When pressed to explain he stated that they were wiggling their hands at the beginning and end of the gesture?
Puzzled, they carried out an assessment of the instructor in question and found the answer!
He had an old pair of muffs on his own bike when he carried out the training and wriggled his hands in and out of them when demonstrating hand signals. The baby ducks following then all copied his exact movements!
During a visit by the supervising DSA examiner to a M/C training school a few years ago, he stated that he and his colleagues were happy enough with the quality of instruction of some students coming for their test, but felt the way they were giving their hand signals was a little too “flamboyant”. When pressed to explain he stated that they were wiggling their hands at the beginning and end of the gesture?
Puzzled, they carried out an assessment of the instructor in question and found the answer!
He had an old pair of muffs on his own bike when he carried out the training and wriggled his hands in and out of them when demonstrating hand signals. The baby ducks following then all copied his exact movements!
Bike Bear
Guest
Hand Signals?
Urban Myth?
Heard the one about the learner on the Red Honda CB250 and the examiner saw the Red Honda CB250 coming so he leapt in the road with his clipboard in the air, only it was a different Red Honda CB250 and it ran him over.....
Ummm...must be bed time.
Urban Myth?
Heard the one about the learner on the Red Honda CB250 and the examiner saw the Red Honda CB250 coming so he leapt in the road with his clipboard in the air, only it was a different Red Honda CB250 and it ran him over.....
Ummm...must be bed time.
Checked out that Michel dudes site.In the piccy it looks like Oxford Muffs and hes still got the guards on the bars.Mabye worth a shot.
A bit cheaper than getting stuff sent from the states like the ones in Cycle Apparal Co although they look well up to the job.
Had a cheap set of muffs before when despatching on the MT500 coz I didnt wear any gloves.
A bit cheaper than getting stuff sent from the states like the ones in Cycle Apparal Co although they look well up to the job.
Had a cheap set of muffs before when despatching on the MT500 coz I didnt wear any gloves.
Sure thing, the muffs fit over the hand guards! If you make holes for the mirror and the weight bolt, they already fit. You can use them like that.
If you then make the opening wider and "turn" it towards you, they fit even better but that takes some more work.
They are Oxford Products muffs. Probably easier to find and cheaper in the UK than over here?
-8°C and handlebar heating at 1: hands nice and warm!
If you then make the opening wider and "turn" it towards you, they fit even better but that takes some more work.
They are Oxford Products muffs. Probably easier to find and cheaper in the UK than over here?
-8°C and handlebar heating at 1: hands nice and warm!
Zwerver
Registered user
funny...
Since I put the Oxford muffs on my 1150 two weeks ago (10 minutes work), the temp hasn't been below 0 ...
Since I put the Oxford muffs on my 1150 two weeks ago (10 minutes work), the temp hasn't been below 0 ...
Gecko
Registered user
Re: funny...
I had to go to Stockholm last week for work and was well impressed to see quite a few bikes on the move around the city. It was -3 degrees and there was some snow but the roads were ok. There was one guy on a Harley sportster (I think it was a sportster anyway) with studded tyres. Lots of tread with lovely shiney studs all over - very kinky. I can't imagine what it's like to drive on tarmac with metal studs - must be a bit like driving on ice without them I suppose. :cockeye He still looked like a prat but I must confess he did turn a few heads - I think it was the open exhaust that was blasting out about 6000decibels through the narrow streets of stockholm that really impressed the locals.
I had to go to Stockholm last week for work and was well impressed to see quite a few bikes on the move around the city. It was -3 degrees and there was some snow but the roads were ok. There was one guy on a Harley sportster (I think it was a sportster anyway) with studded tyres. Lots of tread with lovely shiney studs all over - very kinky. I can't imagine what it's like to drive on tarmac with metal studs - must be a bit like driving on ice without them I suppose. :cockeye He still looked like a prat but I must confess he did turn a few heads - I think it was the open exhaust that was blasting out about 6000decibels through the narrow streets of stockholm that really impressed the locals.
Similar threads
