Author Topic: too much heat (Read 2461 times)

tramp · « **on:** August 02, 2006, 03:47:53 PM »

i've decided that riding my bike in 100 degree temp is no longer fun
i sweated my left nuggie off this afternoon
still ride with light jacket and gloves just can't drive fast enough

cbjunkie · « **Reply #1 on:** August 02, 2006, 04:08:10 PM »

i feel ya - i finally rode without my jacket the other day, out of sheer exhaustion...i just couldn't take it anymore. the air here is like a furnace.

i'm in StLouis, MO - it's been 100+ for two weeks, where are you?

toycollector10 · « **Reply #2 on:** August 02, 2006, 04:56:12 PM »

Overcast here, light drizzle and 5 degrees Celcius.....can we swap houses for a week or two junkie?? Coldest winter here since 1972, and it feels like it!

cbjunkie · « **Reply #3 on:** August 02, 2006, 04:57:57 PM »

you'd regret it, mate...in about 5 minutes.

aptech77 · « **Reply #4 on:** August 02, 2006, 06:01:46 PM »

Chi-Town just as bad. No fun all week! It's like withdraw!

cbjunkie · « **Reply #5 on:** August 02, 2006, 06:18:59 PM »

yeah, exactly - it just made it feel like a BLAST furnace, instead of just a furnace...

nickjtc · « **Reply #6 on:** August 02, 2006, 07:07:29 PM »

Quote from: ElCheapo on August 02, 2006, 06:04:26 PM

I have given up the jacket altogether and resorted to my skid lid. Funny how you just cant drive fast enough to cool off.

Ride safe guys, and watch out for those inattentive cagers all around you!

ElCheapo · « **Reply #7 on:** August 02, 2006, 07:25:33 PM »

I watched this guy who was riding with a group. They were all pulling into a driveway. This guy followed right next to this cagers left rear bumper area. I could not believe it as I watched it. These cagers swerve all over the place around here. Just one jerk of the wheel while smackin some bratty kid and this guy's ride day would have been over. Whats more is that there was also a vehicle on the way out. These guys did not seem like high mile riders. This is a judgement made on the way they left the light before this.

DRam · « **Reply #8 on:** August 02, 2006, 09:32:43 PM »

Thanks to whatever powers that be, the hot stuff moved out of Montana Sunday night. It wasn't as hot here as it is for you out in the mid-west right now. Never got much over 98 F, and as long as you were moving down the highway it was tolerable in leather, probably because enough slow moving air came through the vents and flowed over my sweat-soaked tshirt and cooled things off. It helps loads, too, that the humidity around here seldom runs over 50%, and drops to the teens on occassion. Slow traffic in town and sitting at stop lights was a sauna though. Temperatures are now in the high 70's to low 80's and things are much better. My condolences to all you riding in high temperature and high humidity. I don't think I could do it.

6adan · « **Reply #9 on:** August 03, 2006, 07:22:17 AM »

Took a 90 mi. ride a few days ago in this heat and when I got back home I drank about a gallon of water.Funny I still enjoyed the ride but I think my next ride I will take a camel pack of water.Anyone who rides in hot wether needs to be sure to get enough water. Getting the itch for another ride. Dannie

Chris Schneiter · « **Reply #10 on:** August 03, 2006, 11:56:32 AM »

Of course being a Dumass, I've been in shorts and a polo, but it's still been too hot! What I hate is when you are riding along and ride into a hot spot! I don't know what causes them, but it's like riding into a blast furnace! Got off my bike yesterday, and the whole back of my pants were wet! (no, not from #$%*ting them in a close call!). Kinda embarasing!
Last night the "cold" front came through with rain (Michigan). When I got up, it was already 80º, but that's supposed to be our high for today! Those of you to the east..Coming your way!!!!!

nickjtc · « **Reply #11 on:** August 03, 2006, 01:45:27 PM »

Bear in mind, fellow forum goers, that when the ambient temperature rises above body heat you are better to insulate your body with something than to leave it exposed to the sun, which is then slowly broiling any exposed skin.

Saw a couple on a cruiser one summer. It was pushing 40c. He was wearing the usual uniform (leather waistcoat, jeans, chaps, fingerless gloves and an ashtray on his head); she was wearing a leather thong, chaps and a leather bra, plus fingerless gloves and the ashtray. They must have been riding for a while because she was redder than a beetroot and headed for some serious sun burn.

StevieMac · « **Reply #12 on:** August 03, 2006, 02:34:13 PM »

It doesn't get that hot around here (although it came close a few weeks ago) but I run into it when I'm touring.

What works for me is soaking my t-shirt down and then putting on my vented Bates riding jacket over top with all the vents open. If you don't cover the t-shirt you're wasting your time as it will be dry in a minute.

On my touring bike I also have a drink holder (I know, I know but it serves an important purpose on hot days). In addition to drinking the water I can dump some down my jacket to keep my shirt wet between gas stops.

Chris Schneiter · « **Reply #13 on:** August 04, 2006, 08:30:05 AM »

What do people do about their heads? I have a black helmet and once totally fried my brains!

StevieMac · « **Reply #14 on:** August 04, 2006, 08:35:24 AM »

Buy a white helmet?

I've switched to silver helmets myself.

Chris Schneiter · « **Reply #15 on:** August 04, 2006, 08:46:19 AM »

Yeah...I've thought of that...but $$$...brains?...$$$?.....Brains?....I can't decide which is more important!

GroovieGhoulie · « **Reply #16 on:** August 04, 2006, 09:14:04 AM »

I've got a red helmet, but it's a Davida Classic, which has no vents. HOT!!!

Chris Schneiter · « **Reply #17 on:** August 04, 2006, 09:22:24 AM »

Mine's an HJC shorty...has vents, but they're useless..

racing33 · « **Reply #18 on:** August 05, 2006, 05:29:21 PM »

I live in Michigan and this last week it was like 98 degrees and sky high humidity. Unbearable to say the least. I rode one day without my leather and felt so unsafe that I suffered the rest of the week with the leather on. I have a phobia about hitting the pavement and watching my skin being ripped off in chunks. I consider that to be one of my healthy phobias though, the rest we will not speak of.
Bruce

GroovieGhoulie · « **Reply #19 on:** August 05, 2006, 05:31:20 PM »

Someone told me, "You don't dress for the ride, you dress for the crash."

So I am ATGATT.

Bob Wessner · « **Reply #20 on:** August 05, 2006, 05:38:25 PM »

Quote from: GroovieGhoulie on August 05, 2006, 05:31:20 PM

Someone told me, "You don't dress for the ride, you dress for the crash."

So I am ATGATT.

Good way to put it.

Bodain · « **Reply #21 on:** August 05, 2006, 05:57:18 PM »

Yep. It's hot everywhere. We're beating 100 down here in Texas. The ride to work is pretty good. The ride coming home is miserable.
I currently have two running bikes and one project in the works. I always ride the CB 750 to work. This bike is far cooler to ride than my 2001 Kawaski ZRX 1200R. The Kawasaki which of course is water cooled brings all that engine heat to my legs and face. The old air cooled Honda is a much cooler ride.

nickjtc · « **Reply #22 on:** August 07, 2006, 07:31:39 PM »

Quote from: Bodain on August 05, 2006, 05:57:18 PM

The old air cooled Honda is a much cooler ride.

Literally AND figuratively! I've noticed that too...even at extreme ambient temperatures hereabouts I don't feel any heat off the bike. Smells warmish when I get off though!

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Author Topic: too much heat (Read 2461 times)

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