H-D All-Weather Helmet Liner And Socks

H-D All-Weather Helmet Liner and Socks

CW EVALUATIONS

What to wear for warmth

GONE ARE THE DAYS WHEN HARLEY-Davidson dealers needed only to stock their apparel departments with a couple different styles of leather jackets. The company’s Motorclothes division is bursting with dozens of products designed to make motorcycling an even more pleasant experience-weather notwithstanding.

Created last year, the All-Weather line boasts no fewer than seven items, including the S20 thermal helmet liner and the S30 oversocks evaluated here.

The human body is a radiator. And although the head makes up a relatively small portion of the body’s surface, we lose nearly 50 percent of our heat from it. That’s a pretty strong argument for wearing some sort of covering. Problem is, too thick a covering and your helmet will feel uncomfortably small or no

DETAILS Harley-Davidson Motor Company 3700 W. Juneau Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53208 800/588-2743 www.harley-davidson.com Price $50 A Extend riding season in comfort A Machine-washable `~owns v One-size liner may not fit all v Black only

longer fit. Too thin or the wrong type of material, and the effort is moot.

To borrow from Goldilocks and The Three Bears, the Polartec micro-fleece helmet liner is just right. It’s thin enough that you need not buy the next-size-larger crash helmet, and it’s shaped so that peripheral vision is unobstructed. A microbacterial finish lessens the likelihood of unseemly odor buildup.

Good marks for the water-resistant neoprene oversocks, too. Worn over a single pair of athletic socks, the anklelength, flat-seamed slip-ons kept our booted tootsies toasty in even freezing temperatures. What’s more, the stretchy socks weren’t uncomfortably hot in warmer climes. We won’t brave another winter without'em