(04-21-2018 01:42 AM)W/R Wrote: I think you may be over estimating the powers of heated hand grips and a good jacket, I'm afraid they don't help a whole lot when there is 4' of snow, blizzards with white outs and the ice covered roads that are constant from Dec-Jan. Some days you can't even snowmobile it's so bad.
I think Mr. Pro. was be facetious!
Without a windshield (had not heard of heated grips, back then), I rode 4,000 miles in 3 months in New Jersey, Feb-Apr: Rain, snow, ice.
But that was 1967 and I was much crazier back then!
Now, I am a fair weather rider, at least in regards to precipitation.