Its that time of year again.
I need some help in how to stay warm. I ride through out  the winter and at times it gets pretty cold.

First, I need a good windshield. I really want one that also covers my hands. It seems that my hands are the hardest thing to keep warm and the wind makes it really cold. I am having a hard time finding one that fits this description.

second, I need a new helmet. Mine is not the right size anyways. But the wind comes through the visor and makes my eyeballs feel like they are going to freeze.
Are certain helmets better at blocking the wind?

The only other thing would be my toes. I have leather boots and actually wear two pairs of socks with them, but my pigs get cold.

Any suggestions would be helpful. In the winter I ride in 30 and below. Some days I drive the truck if its too cold, but I would like to become invincible against the cold.

thanks.

helmet:  make sure you get one where there is a little peice of cloth that you can put in the chin... helps a lot...  try riding in your full face and then put your hand under the front of your helmet... you'll see a huge difference.

The big single makes a great hand warmer when you stop at lights, just reach down and rest you glove on it.

at most Shell gasstations here they have plastic gloves, putting those on will keep your hands nice and warm all winter, as long as you have normal gloves that are big enough (you need wide gloves, because the air between your hand and the surface of the glove is your insulation, but not too wide)

I bought a baclava last winter that helped keep my neck & chin warm. It's long enough to tuck under my collar, though it does make the helmet a tad snug. I went cheap on the cold weather gear. Got some black Dickie's insulted coveralls for $59 & road comfortably all winter. I'm not sure how warm they'd be up north though. Wool socks helped & Thermolite insulated gloves, though I'm seriously considering snowmobile gloves which I suppose are warmer than my Walmart cheapies.

Believe it or not but I wear scuba gloves 5mm thickness. with velcro. Gloves are pretty warm and 100% rain/wind proof. Also, they grip handle bar very nicely (due to rubber thickness) and I feel they would protect me in the fall just as good as thick leather would.

being new to a savage I wonder if hand deflectors might work better on a dragbar style than buckhorn ?

please tell me i'm not lusting and now rationalizing after a set of those.
franch

I really need to register at some point here...
but anyway

thanks everyone for the info.

Does anyone know anything about the Icon helmet? I have been smitten by the one that is flat black with skulls on it. "looks" like a good helmet, but who knows.

I will check into the slipstreamer fairing. I realized this morning on my ride that I am totally good down to 30F, but below that I start getting cold. I think a good windshield will do the trick.

For anyone wondering how I stay warm in 30F I wear leather boots with two pairs of socks, thick leather pants with a pair of work out pants under, leather jacket with two shirts and a sweatshirt, one of those neck things for skiing from walmart, ski gloves from Target.

My gf bought me some expensive winter riding gloves from Harley last xmas, but I didnt think they worked very well. My $5 target gloves work better.