Pogies

[MailSeanBell]

I couldn't find any Pogies that didn't cost a ton of money so I embarked on a sewing project. I havn't dont any sewing for 16 years so it was a learning curve! Plus, the guys on the hockey team gave me a really hard time but... all for the love of the ride! :lol:

Started with a pair of old fleece pants from the Thrift Store ($1.50)

Cut them in half up the mid-seam and then sewed that shut.

Then I pulled the bottom part of the leg up through the other part, and sewed that together at the top. Then I opened up the side to allow a place for the handle bar.

End result is a set of double layered fleece pogies!

Since this picture I've added some velcro to it so now slides on and off really easily. Now, we just need some winter...

 

[Peder Torgersen]

Looks like you did a good job now you will keep your hands warm how cold does it get where you live? Here by the coast on the south tip of Norway it’s normally around 0°C in December, January and February which is the month we get most of the snow. We can get -15°C but that will only last a day or two.
Peder

 

[MailSeanBell]

It's hard to generalize the temperature too much as it seems to change so much year to year and I've only lived here for 5 years. I looked it up online and found this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/city_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT000920

I think it's pretty accurate. It seems we always get one really good cold snap where the temperature goes down into the -30s and then with the wind the officual temperature gets down under -50. So... it can be cold.

I was talking to the dude at the bike store and he was talking about the Joy of A)Being the only one crazy enough to be out in that weather, and B) the calm and peace there is biking through a frozen world. So... we'll see. I havn't tried year round biking since 2002 in Edmonton Alberta where we get "Chinook" winds... this is to say... we keep the snow to a minimum by melting it about every two weeks with a warm mountain wind.

I'll get a pick of the 2nd gerneration Pogies I just finished as soon as I can.

 

[Mark B]

Leave it to a fat guy.... I thought a pogie was something to eat. Great craftiness, BTW.

I feel like such a wuss. It was 38 this morning and I was bundled up like crazy. We won't see too many days much colder than that. Not normally, anyway. What with global warming.... Oh wait, I forgot, they changed that, now.... global climate change :roll: who knows? Maybe I'll be needing pogies and studded tires.

Mark

 

[MrSteve]

Very good job!


My leather ex-motorcycle winter gauntlets do fine,
otherwise I'd be copying you and be building pogies
for my bike right now!


-Steve

 

[MailSeanBell]

Here are the pics of the Version 2.

I took a down vest (child sized) and cut it up the middle and cut the top off

This next pic is the front end, and I'm pointing at where the handlebar will come out. On a regular bike, the handle bar comes out the side of the pogie, but the free rider the handle bar comes out the front side.

So... I think that the pogies with insulation are going to be a little better. But I'm waiting for my friend with the other ones to get back with her research on using just the fleece.

Soon to come... Version III (guess what everyone is getting for Christmas this year?)

 

[MrSteve]

My "pogies, V1" was a plastic liter bottle cut in half lengthwise and zip-tied to the bars
in front of the hand grips.
Great little fairings for the hands.

Vetter made pogies for motorcyclists: when I rode for Vetter, the fairings kept
me warm enough that I did not need the pogies.
Those were made out of neoprene....

Let me guess!

Your next version will be black leather, right?
Sewn to shape with steer-hide belts and wrapped with razor wire....
:!:


-Steve