What is the coldest you have ever ridden in?

[Ben 500RR-S]

The first day I had the snowbike on the snow, it was 3-F and as I had no handguards, my fingertips were cold even though the handwarmers were on level 5. My chin was also cold as I didn't pull my neckwarmer up enough to cover the gap. This was not the coldest for me though.

There was one day where, at 11am, with the thermometer in direct sun, it was -10 degrees Farrenheit. Even though I had bundled up in my monosuit, along with layers below and another layer of insulation on top of the suit, even at 20-30 mph, we had to load up and go home as it was just too cold. This was on snowmobiles with great handwarmers/thumbwarmers, and the heat coming out of the footwells, big hood and windshield to help keep the wind off, but still, cold is just cold.

What is the coldest you had/have ever ridden in?

This weekend, up in northern New England, it will be a high of 0-degrees F for both days. I won't even bother riding as I know that it will just be too cold.

 

[strateja]

I rode one evening with my buddies and it was -20f. Will never do that again. Just couldn’t stay warm.


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[Sheetmetalfab]

-28F

 

[wwillf01]

-20... Just need the right gear... And made a fire to go back to....as needed ...

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[Teddly]

Wow! I’ve been riding in far colder quite often. -40. Don’t really want to trail ride when it’s that cold though...


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[portgrinder]

-47c

Fort Good Hope, NWT.

 

[byeatts]

-47c

Fort Good Hope, NWT.

pretty sure my trailer wont open in those temps,,,cause I'm not getting out of the truck,,

 

[Ben 500RR-S]

I might be going riding tomorrow sometime, with a projected high of like 11-F. Balmy compared to the -20 or -40 some of you have been in.

I know that -10 was just too cold.

 

[powdermuncher]

Colder than -10F or roughly -20 celsius my bike won't start honest

 

[RMK935VA]

-21. Never again. Grip heaters and heavy gloves were not enough honestly. Feet stayed warm in Klim boots though.

 

[needpowder]

I remember being ok last year in -10 f on a good powder day. O miles of trail though and I stayed wam getting unstuck, sawing down trees , and yanking the bike around.

 

[christopher]

-56 with wind chill.
Absolutely had to do a test on a new Turbo Install.
Bitter cold morning.

It was sooo cold it HURT..
Actually it hurt quite a bit.

Won't ever do that again.

 

[Scott]

Uh, wind-chill doesn't count. The faster you go, the more wind-chill.
Straight temps only please.

My coldest unload is -36. It warmed up to -15 when we got up out of the inversion and to the warming hut.

-56 with wind chill.
Absolutely had to do a test on a new Turbo Install.
Bitter cold morning.

It was sooo cold it HURT..
Actually it hurt quite a bit.

Won't ever do that again.

 

[Scott]

-47c

Fort Good Hope, NWT.

WTH??? That's COLD!!!

 

[LoudHandle]

Years ago when I was far younger at least -70 F

In the early 2000's I did the "trek over the top" with friends three years in a row.
It is a 187 mile ride (each way) from Tok Alaska to the town of Dawson in the Yukon Territory via the Over the Top Highway (not to be confused with the one with a similar name in Glacier National Park, MT) for a weekend of fun with the Canadians and then ride back on Sunday morning.

Start the sleds to warm up, eat breakfast while they come up to temp and ride it like it's a race!

Any exposed skin between the motocross style helmet and the goggles / baclava / face mask is covered with at least a double layer of duct tape! That year it was exceptionally cold! -65 F at the gas stop in Chicken, Alaska. And although no thermometers, riding in the river valley, heading to Boundary, Alaska it had to be dipping to at least -70 (that's without windchill!). Remember we are young and high strung with our competitive egos and riding like it's a race! 100 MPH plus where the highway and conditions allow.

That was the only time in all my years of racing / riding in the arctic where I still got frostbite through the double layers of duct tape. Eyes watering and freezing your eyelids together whenever you blink in spite of them being behind goggles is very common at these temps.


Being older, and wiser, with less ego has it's advantages these days.

 

[Snowman269]

Woke up to -49C (-57F) in Canada 04'

Sleds wouldn't start, grabbed pull cord and motor would NOT roll over.

Both batteries in my Diesel froze and were split.

Took until noon getting supplies, Lots of Duct Tape, 1st bought battery charger & 2nd new truck batteries. Bought hair dryers and extension cords to lay on sled motors under hoods to warm them up so they would just allow them to turn over.

Wrapped ourselves in Duct tape to keep wind from burning skin through balaclava.

2 days later it warmed up drastically to normal zero temps.

 

[christopher]

Uh, wind-chill doesn't count.

To hell it doesn't!
My body was on FIRE it hurt so bad!.
Every place where my body pressed up against the clothing and the air passed over me hurt like hell. Especially my hands and fingers...

 

[minus40]

One of the reasons I picked my user. First time riding in -40C plus was in the mid 70's. I easily remember cuz the 340 free air was really rockin that day. I never made it to three hours out due to the open face helmet, piss poor clothing we had those days.

Have been out in -40c or colder only 3 or 4 times however -30c to -35c at least a few times every year I have been riding. I don't look forward to it these last few years but will still go out

 

[WMdeen]

In the early 2000's I did the "trek over the top" with friends three years in a row.
It is a 187 mile ride (each way) from Tok Alaska to the town of Dawson in the Yukon Territory via the Over the Top Highway (not to be confused with the one with a similar name in Glacier National Park, MT) for a weekend of fun with the Canadians and then ride back on Sunday morning.

Start the sleds to warm up, eat breakfast while they come up to temp and ride it like it's a race!

Any exposed skin between the motocross style helmet and the goggles / baclava / face mask is covered with at least a double layer of duct tape! That year it was exceptionally cold! -65 F at the gas stop in Chicken, Alaska. And although no thermometers, riding in the river valley, heading to Boundary, Alaska it had to be dipping to at least -70 (that's without windchill!). Remember we are young and high strung with our competitive egos and riding like it's a race! 100 MPH plus where the highway and conditions allow.

That was the only time in all my years of racing / riding in the arctic where I still got frostbite through the double layers of duct tape. Eyes watering and freezing your eyelids together whenever you blink in spite of them being behind goggles is very common at these temps.


Being older, and wiser, with less ego has it's advantages these days.

Yo psycho! Can I come next time? Used to ride Thompson Pass in the spring(late feb-may) never saw much below -10 F.

Coldest i've ridden in is -25 F with no wind, in Wyoming on sleds. The arid climates make the cold much more tolerable, the humid cold has a way of slicing right through your layers. I now live in Western NY and won't go if it's around 10 F due to the lake humidity. Fall commutes to work on my motorcycle at 30 degrees taught me that.

 

[revrider07]

Unloaded in northern nd at -15 rode for 5 hours loaded go in truck was -38. Was in west Yellowstone in 2008 was -55 did not ride that day couldn't go home because the Alison would not shift out of 2nd gear