Guess I should have mentioned that I already have the footguards. Even when I got them three years ago, I decided pretty early on they were NOT worth the hefty price of admission to me. Especially compared to the V-Strom handguards which were a freakin' STEAL by comparison! I had on two pair of socks, one being your off-the-rack over the calf cotton tube socks. On top of those were some really thick tall socks that my sister got for me which I suspect are cotton too, but they're very thick. I think I would have been pretty hard pressed to fit another layer inside my Fieldsheer riding boots. Seems to be a digit problem for me, or maybe as MM2 said, an age thing. My fingers used to be the only thing that was a real problem. Handguards helped when cool, but not cold. Ditto for grip heaters which are awesome on "cool" evenings, but not for this kind of riding. The Widder gloves were like a dream come true when I finally broke down and bought some. So now my toes have become the limiting factor.
Warchild, do you run any other heated gear when doing these kind of temps long distance?? I'm wondering if the elevated core temp helps substantially with this issue...seems like it might. I actually scored a Widder vest off Ebay for real cheap recently, but found out too late to make use of it yesterday that the cord was about 4" too short to make it out of my riding suit and to my Powerlet plug.
I tried it on the bike without the suit on and it seemed to reach with a few inches to spare, but apparently, routing it out of the suit ate up more length of cord than I anticipated. Insufficient foresight sure cost me yesterday. I'm going to lengthen the cord, just didn't have the time or wire to do it yesterday. If my daughter would have had an old faulty lamp or kitchen gadget laying around, I would have made a new cord for the trip home, but alas she didn't. So am I on the right track here??
And Barb, I know you're up in cold (but strikingly beautiful!) country up there, but what kind of temps are you actually riding in? I'm sure wool socks can't be too hard to come by, I just don't know if they're enough. Yesterday was supposed to be my "acid test" for the Widder vest...but you already know how that worked out.
Funny, all these people coming from the game would say "aren't you cold??". My reply was, "I didn't have heated gloves in the stadium".
It was like 25*F during the game.
Silly people.
