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Iron Butt
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Perry Hall, MD | With temps in the mid 60s here today it's time to start thinking about staying cool on those long rides. A trade journal at the office suggested some possible alternatives to the water cooled vest that others have reported on here.
www.coolvest.com
www.ritetempathletics.com
Edited by lennyb 2012-03-01 7:31 PM
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | Does anybody just get on their bike and just ride??? Sorry, I'm sure it's a "cool" idea. Enjoy! |
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Cruiser
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Edmond, OK 2012 Vision, 2012 Cross Country | To those who ride in the NE part of the U.S. come to the central part of the country and try to hang with us who may or may not wear a Cool Vest. We reach highs near 115 degrees and ride nearly everyday. Think you can hang with us? Try it on a everyday basis year after year. |
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Iron Butt
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, WI | varyder - 2012-03-01 9:01 PM Does anybody just get on their bike and just ride??? Sorry, I'm sure it's a "cool" idea. Enjoy!  |
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| Rollin' - 2012-03-01 10:16 PM varyder - 2012-03-01 9:01 PM Does anybody just get on their bike and just ride??? Sorry, I'm sure it's a "cool" idea. Enjoy! +1 |
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Cruiser
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mansfield, MA United States | RobertDuval - 2012-03-01 9:41 PM
To those who ride in the NE part of the U.S. come to the central part of the country and try to hang with us who may or may not wear a Cool Vest. We reach highs near 115 degrees and ride nearly everyday. Think you can hang with us? Try it on a everyday basis year after year.
Last year I went to the VMC National rally in Prescott AZ. We flew into Las Vegas and rented a Vision. Some of the Sin City Victory riders meet up with us and let us ride to the rally with them. Coming from Mass I had never seen a cool vest before. We stopped at a gas station on the way and several of the SC riders went into the rest room to wet there vest. After riding at the rally for a couple days I got one. WOW what a difference it made.
I ride all year in rain snow freezing cold and hell hot days. I will challenge anyone to follow me in a blizzard (I rode home from Rhode Island in a white out blizzard last year) or a sub 0 day and I will ride on your hottest day. I agree it beat the hell out of me riding in the heat but it's nothing like not being able to feel your fingers and toes. (I broke down and got a heated suit and new boots this year) But in both conditions there is nothing like riding a Vision.
Edited by Fastfred 2012-03-02 8:04 AM
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Salt Lake City | 60 deg. temps?! Staying cool?! Dude......... We just got 4 new inches of snow last night  |
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, AR United States | I bought an inexpensive cooling vest a Cycle Gear last year. I packed it unopened on a ride to Michigan last summer. On the way back to Arkansas I rode into a heat wave in south MO. I began feeling woozy from the heat so I stopped and cooled off, opened the vest and soaked it for a few minutes. It made me feel a lot cooler as long as it had water. I just had to stop more often to resoak. I stopped in Fayetteville and the weather app on my ipod said it was 108 and humid. When I got to I40 I rode into a thunderstorm and the temp dropped 30 deg.(temporarily) The cheap vest made the ride more bareable, my shirt alone would have dried out too quickly to be useful. I don't plan to upgrade since this one seems to meet my needs. |
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mansfield, MA United States | I got it from CCU. Nice guy too. Here is his link: http://www.ccupowersports.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=... |
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Iron Butt
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Peachtree City, GA | I have had a cool vest for three years now... During the heat of the summer it is always in my saddle bag for when it really hot out.
Edited by Webhair 2012-03-02 1:42 PM
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Bullhead City, AZ | You can ride witthout help up to 110 anything over that it feels like riding into a hairdryer. I was on that trip with fastfred and the ride down to Prescott was fairy cool compared to what I normaly ride in around Bullhead. I dont have a coolvest but the wife got one from CCU and she loves it. |
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Cruiser
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| Rode from Santa Barbara to Phoenix. Hit 29 Palms at 6 AM and it was already 105. The rest of the ride was like swimming up the afterburner of a F-104. |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | The trip out west put me in 105+ across Kansas for nearly a whole day, south winds made it feel like a furnance. Keep my self hydrated most of the time except one spell where I ran out of fluid in my camelbak. I wasn't doing okay then, but was able to rehydrate quickly when I stopped. Also, two days later spent many miles across Arizona and into California to Barstow with the temps busting 110 for most of the day. Hydration was the key, never gave thought to a cool vest. Perhaps when I get old I might get one... |
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Cruiser
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| You can drink a beer and be up 4 times in the night but during the day on a long hot ride you can drink 2 gallons of water and not pee a drop. Now that's evaporative cooling! |
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Cruiser
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Desert Hot Springs (Palm Springs area), CA | The best $35 (plus shipping) that I've spent on my bike. As many have said, I don't leave home without it in the Summer... I live in Palm Springs! |
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Tourer
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, IA | +1 on ccu bought 2 from them. they do work |
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Albuquerque NM | I just got one from Northern tool, cost me $35, and on those 100+ days it makes a huge difference.
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Tourer
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| I use the cooling vest and the 'heat out' from cycle gear - both are very helpful. |
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Tourer
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New Mexico | So, these are news to me. How do they work? Evaporative? And you have just a t-shirt under it? It doesn't have to be on your skin, right? Are they still effective if you have leather over it?
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Tourer
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| Boots - I wear the Heat Out next to my skin. then a t-shirt and then the cool vest and then my mesh or leather jacket. Weds. I rode about 100 miles in 85-95* temps on the superslab with the Heat Out long sleeve [no cool vest]. there were times I actually felt a little cold on the trip. I also wore the Heat Out cap for the first time with a full-face helmet. I did notice that my head felt cooler. Actually what I noticed was I did not feel the usually heat on my head from my usual do-rag. I don't know how the technology works, however, it sure does help with ride comfort. |
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Albuquerque NM | Boots- the vest works on evaporation, so I get it wet before going out for a ride. make sure to ring it out or blot it with a towel so it won't drip on you, then as you ride the wind evaporates the water making the vest cool. It's great here in the arid southwest.
BTW I wear mine under my mesh riding jacket, but above my shirt. |
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Puddle Jumper
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Western Wyoming | Cool Vest and Cool Cap under my helmet.It is a nice treat @ gas stops in 100 + heat. |
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