- Joined
- Sep 25, 2009
- Messages
- 3,057
- Age
- 68
- Location
- West Des Moines, IA
- Bike
- 2022 Kymco AK 550
- 2024 Miles
- 001059
- STOC #
- 8058
Nah, I don't consider that cheating. Riding in cold temps includes wearing the gear needed to make you comfortable, AND SAFE, enough to do so. And if that means heated gear then wear the heated gear. With all my previous bikes I wore Gerbing heated gloves. Since I now have heated grips I added the handlebar muffs to use WITH the heated grips to keep my whole hand warm. Consider it part of the uniform. ATGATT for cold weather riding.About 60 miles today in 17° in central Ohio but I feel like I've been cheating all winter wearing a heated jacket and gloves from WarmnSafe. Balaclava and long johns on I faired pretty well. My feet stay warm as long as I'm on the ST11. The ignition switch keeps freezing up though. Have to leave it idle to warm it up enough to turn it off.
As to that ignition switch issue. Have you tried to turn the engine off with the kill switch? But I guess that won't turn off the power on the bike if the switch is defective in cold temps. Sounds like you have a moisture issue in the switch that freezes the contacts or switch barrel in the cold.
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