Cold Weather riding

In really cold weather I wear Sealskinz Thermals (with merino inside) and a thin pair of socks inside those.

I run a mucky nutz on the front, down tube mounted crud catcher and Mudhugger rear. Works really well, so much so that i only gaet a small amount of mud spirks on my lower legs. I did have a mudhiugger front mudguard, but when i changed my tyres there was not enough clearance with my rockshox fork.

I wear endura winter tights and normal baggy shorts, sealskins sox with a pair of merino wool socks underneath and fiveten shoes. Toasty.

Tobamory wrote:

I did a 20 miler yesterday and as normal the British weather was KAK, on the way out got extremely jmuddy on my shorts from all the up spary, Five tens soaked through, so as wind was icy cold, I had very numb cold feet at the end. Was fun though so a few questions.

Any advice on what to wear on the feet, Im presuming all shoes get soaked even gortex with water creeping inside, do seal Skin socks work, does anybody use them ?

As for legs I presume nprmal running tights will suffice to keep the chill off the lower half of my body. top half was fine.

And lastly Mudguards, I know sometimes frowned at but any links to a good front and back variant would be cool. I did see my brothers wife with some elastic thing from her forks to the stem, but that must just stop throwback from water passing through the forks,

Thanks Guys a chilly Ted

Have a look at a marshguard, they work quite well on the front. Sealskinz are a life saver in the peak district with a couple of pair of socks under neath should do the trick.

Mucky Nutz new rear guard offers similar coverage to a Crud rear, but is lighter, can be fitted/removed in seconds with no tools, works with dropper posts and doesn't look too offensive. Plus you get a fun few minutes of origami assembling it, lol.

If it's really cold I'll put merino socks on (under sealskins if it's super wet). Otherwise I just layer up. I can't be bothered with mudguards, just glasses instead.

No thank you.

If you're selfconscious about mudguards and afraid of getting slagged off, just remember that 7/10 people who laugh at mudguards are fairweather bufties who're afraid they'd melt in the rain, 2/10 are people who fitted a bad mudguard wrongly and can't believe other people have got it right because they have no grasp of their own idiocy. And the other 1/10 have less to worry about because their knobs already froze and dropped off.

Long sealskinz are more effective than short ones, obvious when you think about it, getting the tops out of the splash zone makes a big difference. Flat pedallists have it a bit harder as most flat shoes simply suck in winter, 5 10s are disasterous, Shimano's AM41 is a bit better but still not great, Teva Links I've not used but apparently is water resistant but cold, Sombrio's X-Shazam was pretty good but now discontinued... Maybe the new 5 10 Elements are better but I'm skeptical.

Waterproof shorts sound silly til you try a pair then do a similiar ride without them and get trenchcock.

the mucky nutzs fender bender front guard is ok but i've found it still doesnt stop a lot of the mud/water spray as the guard isnt curved to cover the wheel better.

some thick sealskinz socks should stop any water getting inside the shoe.

Fitted a shockboard recently and it does the job very well , I really don't care if my bike looks like a motorcross bike minus engine .