What To Wear: Las Vegas Guided Motorcycle Tours

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WHAT TO WEAR: WHAT DOES THE WEATHER CALL FOR?

Also, see what to bring, which is always impacted by weather and distance of our rides. Safety is always a concern as well. We've put a few suggestions together below. Some of which is related to multi-day tours, single day tours, cooler and warmer weather.

Jackets - A Good Place To Start

Dressing in layers is often much easier to deal with if an adjustment needs to be made for body temperature during our travels, which often happens. Temperatures in the Las Vegas area will vary by season but we are not always in Las Vegas. At times, we traverse mountain tops of 10,000+ foot elevations (even in Vegas), therefore, rain and snow are always a possibility. Along the tops of mountains come colder temperatures. We run parts of our tours year-in, year-out, winter and summer, so we must dress appropriately.

Warm clothing will make an enjoyable difference in cooler weather. There is a term for being cold on a motorcycle, it's nothing extravagant; it's called motorcycle-cold. It's a cold deep within your bones that takes hours to warm up. Most of the time, on our tours from Vegas to local-areas, layers are good enough. If we are talking about our overnighters, layers may not work. Dressing in to many layers will be hard to drive and is uncomfortable. Some of the thermal stuff from a brand called, "Hot Chillys" is good for layering, which is a fleece type of undergarment.

Las Vegas Area Tour Layering - Winter

Top	Bottoms	Gloves
Thermal Top	Thermal Undergarment	Thicky Ones
* Leather Jacket with a liner / Armored	Thermal bottoms
* Fleece Neck Warmer	Solid Leather Pants, not Chaps / Armored

Winter Suggestions: Armor protective jacket with a thermal top and t-shirt should due it. Levis, thermal underwear, full leather pants or chaps for bottoms and protective thick gloves for winter - like snow gloves. You can get a large t-shirt and cut a sleeve out of it OR both the sleeves and pull this over your head, tucking the extra material around your neck and up on to your nose and chin - stretched loosely. This should keep your ears, and face fairly warm with a full face helmet. The next best thing for winter riding is electric liners under protective clothing.
Helmet: Depending on the temperature, winter I wear a full-face with a smoked visor. Summer, a helmet with a full smoked visor. The Rental helmets are a called and open face helmet.
Ear Plugs / Music - If you're on a rental, using a rental 1/2 helmet the ears are exposed to wind and if we're driving 75 for hours, this can be damaging to your hearing.
Some information on Motorcycle Jackets: Your jacket is the next most important piece of equipment to pay attention to. Why? Because of many vital organs, limbs, elbows, shoulders, back and chest. Your jacket should have some type of protective armor around the back, chest, elbows, shoulders. The jacket I wear has double armor and ventilation ducts. It gives you sense of security as well. It should be one that can go clear up and button around your neck for cold weather in the winter, or a draft jacket for summer. Even though it may seem odd for summer rides, it not only protects organs but protects from over-exposure to the sun.


Vented With Armor	Cruiser Jackets

Heated Liner - LOVE IT	Cruiser Jackets W/Liners
Motorcycle Jackets

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This is a jacket you can wear in our Hot Weather.

Armor-Link 2 Mesh material combines with 600 Denier Carbolex to create a protective garment that provides exceptional airflow
Comfortable, mandarin-style collar
360° Phoslite reflective piping and Tour Master's signature reflective rear triangle help increase nighttime visibility
The Microfiber lined collar and cuffs are soft yet durable
Adjustable sleeve take-up straps; hook and loop at the forearm and elastic snap at the bicep help to secure elbow armor and material
Removable, CE Approved armor at the elbow and shoulder with an articulated Triple Density back protector
Includes connections for the optional Tour Master Aquatherm Liner
Zippered chest map pocket, hand warmer pockets, internal pouch pocket and mobile media pocket
Adjustable waist belts, with TPR pulls help to fine tune the fit
Includes a jacket/pant.

Vegas Valley Tour Guide Operators

Mount Charleston Cruise

Warmer Weather:

Pretty much all that has been mentioned, except this.

Some areas we go have no gas or no water, even a bathroom is an exploration. So bring some water to drink.

Tour Safety:

DOT Helmets are required by Nevada State Law. Non-DOT helmets such as "Beanie Helmets" or "Novelty Helmets" are not permitted under any circumstances on the tour and are illegal. Open face helmets are provided at no charge.

Multi-Day / Custom Tour Suggestions

What you need, what's desired and what will fit on a motorcycle is a balancing act, that's for sure. If it's a custom tour, we have a chaser vehicle for the storage of one suitcase per rider, so that will help. For the rest of us, we suggest keeping it light as possible since most of our time is going to be spent on our bikes. Most of the room, which isn't much will most likely be used for the things mentioned below.

Spare Key: Never travel without a spare key somewhere on your person. It will not do you much good if your key gets broke or lost, if it's at home. Ask the rental shop for a spare. If you loose your key, and it happens, then what?
Spare Levers are a suggestion. If your bike tips over, it will most likely be the firs thing to go.
Rain Gear: You can find rain-gear just about anywhere. It's good to get the kind that is meant for riding motorcycles so you can tighten up around your waist, wrist and ankles. - Frogg-Toggs are a good.
Ear Plugs: Most people would never think to bring a pair of ear plugs until you've hit the road for a few days and wonder what is happening to your hearing. The wind can be a source of hammering noise.
Motorcycle Gloves: Keep at least 2 sets, warm nice thicky ones and some thinner types.
Sunglasses / Goggles: Once again, helmets that come with rentals are open face style. You'll need eye protection - it is state law, in fact you can hardly drive over 25mph with your eyes exposed to the wind. If glasses, clear for night riding, dark-polarized for the day.

Nevada & Other Areas of Weather:

The biggest problem with our weather isn't so much the rain, it's the wind and unpredictable across the desert. Wind gust and side drafts take your bike from one point of the road to the other. It is one reason for single file because conditions from big trucks on the interstate and wind drafts can take your bike from the edge of your lane, moving you across the lane to the next. We don't have that much rain, once in a while. We average 4.13 inches of rain per year in Las Vegas.

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Motorcycle Gadgets For Traveling

I have a lot of gadgets for traveling, some I just bought because I wanted to try it out, others I thought I had a need for it, and still another, just wanted to through money out the window.

Nevertheless, I now have a large bag full of stuff - not all them are useless.

I just took off my helmet to show you guys some of this stuff...

Face Mask - Neoprene - Great for helmets with an open face - Ebay - $8 - Hey you never know, I may want to rob a bank someday, if so, I have a slew of face mask.

I love this Mask but with a full face helmet never get a chance to wear it.

Helps when you have a face only a Mother could love.

Neoprene Face Mask

Here it is with a leather du-rag on top of it. The Darth Vader look.... phew.

Riding Headwear

Full Leather Face Mask - $9 - RockinUp Leather - If it was blistering cold you might wear something like this going down the highway. You can't breath from the nostril area as it's just to small. On the positive side of this thing, Not one drop of air can get inside the helmet with this thing coming out of the bottom, including air you need to breath ;). I was soooo happy to have this on a 600 mile ride where the night weather was mid thirties.

Leather - Face Mask

Du-Rag - Everyone that drives a bike has one of these - Why? I don't know. I guess if your hair is a real mess like mine at the moment, it's good to hide the helmet hair. Of course, if you live in an area where you don't have to wear a helmet it would be cool.

For some reason, I can't get myself to wear one of these in public to often...

Du-Rag - $9 - eBay

Neck Wraps - Fleece

Head Band - Fleece - eBay - Came with a Neck Warmer

Motorcycle Gloves - Thicky Ski Glove

Motorcycle Gloves - Armor Coated - Enough Room For A Liner

Las Vegas Motorcycle Superstore has a lot of great stuff for riding...

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