How a biker should dress in winter

During Motorcycle Riding

Winter is one of the six seasons in Bangladesh. A biker should definitely know the way to dress up in the winter. Normally in Bangladesh winter season starts in November- December. Among all the vehicles bikers suffer most due to season change. Because, a private car can easily adjust with rain because it has cover or it is adaptive to winter or sunny weather because it has air conditioning system in it. But, a biker has to suffer in these situations.

Now in Bangladesh it is very tough to choose clothes according to your choice in winter. So, we will try to discuss on how a biker should dress up during winter so that he can drive motorbike comfortably:

Suppose, It is December and you are riding motorbike in 60 km/hr in a cold night. It means the air is flowing towards your body with a velocity of 80-90 km/hr, which might make your body numb and it can be dangerous while you are riding a motorbike.

The first thing a bike rider needs to know is that we normally wear three layers of clothes. In any situation the first thing which counts is the base layer that means the inner layer of clothes. This includes the inner t-shirts or underwear etc. Wool or fabric should work well with this but different synthetics such as polyester, rayon etc should work best in this. Try to wear synthetic shirts.

Another portion of base layer is socks. Legs are the less covered part of our body. Shoes don’t work well to contain heat in our body. Rather in presence of it body loses heat rapidly. But if you wear woolen socks then you could prevent heat losing a lot.

The second layer is regular clothes. Follow the same guidelines for this step also. Because, air can pass through cotton and other clothes. But air can’t do that through synthetic clothes. So synthetic shirts can be used.

If the amount of cold is too damn high then you can wear a rain coat which will make you comfortable against the cold and will help you to contain heat in your body for a long time. So, don’t buy low cost rain coats. Sometimes, bike companies provide rain coat with the bike, but normally they are very low in quality. So, collect a good quality raincoat from a nearest shop ASAP.

There are many gloves available in the market. Gloves help to contain heat in your hands. More than 50% people’s hands remain warm while driving. But once your hands start losing heat there is no gloves in market to regain the heat. Because when you drive motorbike, the heat containing capacity of your hands becomes the lowermost. Specially the toes, because the muscles of toes are less active than other muscles. So those fingers can contain less heat. As a result temperature starts to decrease. To solve this problems, You can stop riding in every one hour to check tire pressure or to eat some snacks etc.

Leather jacket is always a very good choice for a bike rider. If you have enough money to spend then you can definitely buy a leather jacket because leather contains heat more than most other clothes. It has a heat containing power of its own.

The final but most important suggestion for you is to buy and wear a good quality helmet.

Hope these information will guide a biker to wear appropriate clothes in winter.

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