Well............yeah but I had a plan.
Have not ridden the two bikes I now own in cold weather, so I wanted to see if the heated clothing I had would work with the air flow patterns on these bikes.
V-Strom, lasted about 10 miles. A 10 gigawatt capacitor enhancement wouldn't have pumped enough juice to survive the temps.
Valkyrie Interstate, put about 120 miles on it, last 5 were no fun at all.
Problems I found, which is what I intended the ride to do, were airflow between fairing and radiator pods ( overcame this with neoprene knee wraps )
and airflow on the footsies. The F6 engines have great heat emitting pipes under the heads, but foot control location won't let me take advantage of that.
Toes just hang out in the polar jet stream.
Also noted that airflow over the fairing goes directly onto the fingers and in temps like this it just overpowers the heated gloves.
So know I know what has to be done to the Honda to make it winter worthy.
The Strom just needs warmer temps.
Guess for a cold weather bike I need to pick up a used Goldwing, or...................gulp, another beemer. Darn German machines manage airflow like nothing else I've ever ridden.