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Old 02-27-2008, 09:33 PM   #11 (permalink)
RH77
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First: Wear a decent hat/cap. Most heat is lost through the top of your head.

Layers, layers, layers. Get warm first, and head out. Don't sweat while heating-up: evaporative cooling could occur.

Extreme example: Make your own heated seat with a $10 inverter plugged into the cig-lighter and a heating pad.

My hands get cold first (history of frostbite). I make a fist inside gloves with fingers to let the palms heat the fingers...or sit on my hands and steer with the knees. Whatever it takes to keep them warm.

Note: most of this was done in -10F Weather lately.

The hardest part: not turning the temp knob to the warmer setting until the coolant is up to the proper temp...

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