Thermal Base Layers

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