Thermal Base Layers

Sweat is a weird thing to plan a purchase around, but here we are. If you’ve ever peeled a mesh jacket off after a 35°C highway stretch and felt your shirt come away like a second skin, you already understand why a cooling base layer for motorcycle riding hot weather summer conditions isn’t some niche … Read more

Nobody warns you about this before your first real summer ride: the leather doesn’t cook you, the cotton T-shirt underneath it does. A moisture wicking base layer for motorcycle riding solves a problem that has nothing to do with your jacket’s ventilation panels and everything to do with what’s happening two inches from your skin. … Read more

Somewhere around the second red light on a -8°C commute, you’ll figure out whether your base layer is doing its job. Either your core stays warm and your hands still work the clutch, or you’re standing there wondering why you bothered layering up at all. A synthetic thermal base layer for motorcycle riding is the … Read more

There’s a very specific kind of cold that only a motorcycle rider knows. It’s not the “I forgot my jacket at home” cold. It’s the forty-minutes-into-the-highway cold, the wind-chill-cutting-through-your-jeans cold, the one that starts in your wrists and creeps up to your shoulders until you’re gripping the bars like you’re trying to strangle them. A … Read more

Ask ten riders about merino wool vs synthetic base layer motorcycle gear and you’ll get eleven opinions, usually delivered at a gas station with cold hands and stronger feelings than the topic probably deserves. That’s fair, though — what you wear against your skin decides whether a two-hour ride ends in “that was glorious” or … Read more

Somewhere around the third hour of a spring ride, when the morning chill has burned off but your jacket still traps every bit of it against your skin, most riders discover the same uncomfortable truth: cotton is a liar. It looks fine folded in a drawer. It performs terribly the second you start sweating at … Read more