I am riding this 2025 Eliminator 500 since the beginning of December and can’t wait for the hot season to hit some mountain pass!
I am riding this 2025 Eliminator 500 since the beginning of December and can’t wait for the hot season to hit some mountain pass!
Same, I ride all year round, but only because here in southern Switzerland is not too cold for the 5km commute I am doing, doing more than that in 1-2°C is difficult
Lol 25 years ago I was riding a 400 10 miles (16km?) (each way) to work in 20°F (so -6-7c?) weather… Just have to stay bundled up. I drew the line at snow.
I am lucky that below-zero temperatures are almost never seen here, but I mean, yeah, I don’t think it’s impossible, let me be clear. I just say it’s more difficult, mainly I am a bit scared of ice in the road when it’s really cold
I’m with you
With 16 I had such a 50ccm dirt bike (so nothing to compare to a real motorbike) and if missed the bus to school, I needed to drive with in those 25km
In spring and autumn this was fine, but in winter…
Once I just fell off it at the end of the ride, because I was too stiff to get move my legs accordingly.
As I was young and dumb, I obviously wore some jeans, but still, in low temperatures and shitty weather it just sucks to be that exposed to the elements
You made me remember when, at 17, I used to ride 12 km each way on my Fantic Trial 50 to go see my girlfriend at her parents’ house. In winter, it was brutal, I was definitely not dressed for it.