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Vince said:
Hope you blokes had thermals on under the dicky birds, bloody cold today.
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Last time I wore thermals was in Antarctica and I got too bloody hot working in them!
These days I try to avoid riding in stupidly cold weather.
The only time I could really have used thermals on a bike was half a lifetime ago when I was riding through rain on a freezing cold day, and I mean that literally. The rain was freezing solid on my knees, due to wind-chill I suppose. I was only wearing jeans (had no waterproofs for some reason). When I got off the bike and straightened my legs out, it broke off in sheets of ice. I only had another hour or so to get home, but I was so fucking cold I couldn't go any further. I wanted to get home that night, so I phoned my housemate to come and pick me up. I sat by the fire in a pub and thawed/dried out while I waited for him to turn up. He arrived after dark, and we chucked the bike on its side in the back of his Holden panel van. I still remember how luxurious it felt to be travelling through the cold wet night with the heater on and Frank Zappa belting out of the stereo.
 
Blood hell, new member Chriskx had me scratching my head. I thought, hang on a cotton picking minute, I didn’t ‘like’ Marty’s picture (although I liked it Mart)
 

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I used thermals for Sking, and on occasion on Winter rides. Great at 6am, not so great at 1pm when the suns out. And hard to take them off mid-ride. What's better are those Aldi Mareno Mid-layers, thin and warm. I ended up wearing 2 on THAT Tassie day. Crazy cold insane wind and wet that ride. Survival day. The second fleece went on in front of the Pot Belly stove where we had lunch and thawed out. Half an hour later the Tree fell on Chris.
 
I quite often wear thermal gear during winter riding, but never expected to need it riding through France in July on the way to the Breganze Rally in 2014. By some lucky, last minute decision I chucked a thermal top into my luggage just before I left home. Became almost a life saver on the 14 hour long ride from Le Harve down to Millau.
 
What's sobering is it could have been anyone of us, 30 seconds more or less taken gearing up and... 2 seconds later and it would have been a direct hit. Coin flip is life and death. Better get at it.
 
The original Interceptor a vastly underated steed if you ask me, nothing like the crap Harris breakable framed Indian thing.
CLEM
 
SteveRocker62 said:
Is that a poster ? If so where did you get it from as I love it. Always liked big Enfields and would add to my collection as per this early road safety one.
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A 'Tin' sign, 40x 30 cm £7.58 from China, or a canvas poster 40 x 60cm from Amazon £59.90:

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Most overlooked thermal material is newspaper. On long rides (like across the Nullabor in winter) I wrapped paper around my legs and specially across the knees, held in place with insu;lation tape and a couple of sheets across the chest under the jacket.
Once it warmed up, peeled it off and put it in a bin.
 
Will it work with net news? Newspapers are virtually gone from here.
In Orwell's book Down and out in Paris and London he describes being taught by rough sleepers how to arrange newspapers to survive cold nights.
Woolen under-layer is the absolute way to go in the brutal winter here.
 
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Another one from my last trip!
 
bleeding hell I remember that from when I was 16 and riding a C50 errr.... well actually it was a C90 rebadged but nobody noticed, my only form of transport then of course summer and mostly winter, Aerial arrow arrived when I was 17 years old the following May. not only was it cold through the winter of 1968/9 but the bike was so slow, of course I had a girfriend but not in the same village goddamit, so commute to work and commute to play, I once came home with a block of ice frozen on my forehead, newspaper was in short supply in my parents houshold, thank God the 'ol man read the telegraph (as do I, instead of a half sized tabloid).
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