Beautiful bright sunshiny day. The ice covering everything glistened in the sunlight this morning and by early afternoon had almost all melted and fell off. It was too hazardous to get to work cutting up the downed branches. Wet ground and lots of falling ice convinced me to wait until the weekend to get started.
But, what's that....the streets are dry except where ice is falling down. Easily avoided I figure. The thermometer says 38 degrees and no wind, great time to try out the new heated vest.
It was pretty easy to hook up the wiring to the battery. I plan to splice things up so I can use one connection for both the Battery Tender and the vest since I'll never use them at the same time. It's a bit of a pain to get plugged in and zipped up while sitting on the bike but I plan to work on my technique.
The Dub fired right up and I switched on the vest. I noticed the heat almost immediately and punched it down to the low setting. I got to say I was quite comfortable at 55 but you got to play around, right? On the high setting I started to feel a little well done so I checked out medium and finally back to low. Just to make sure I turned it off completely. Yep, in a couple of minutes I started feeling the cold creep in so I settled on the low setting. The control is easy to operate with my fat winter gloves. It straps to the left thigh and can be worked by feel.
After my short 12 mile ride I was pleased with the Tourmaster Synergy heated vest and anxious to give it a longer test.
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