Too hot to ride
 

It is just too hot to ride for me in CT. I don't know how you guys do it in hotter climates. Yesterday it hit 99 on the thermometer. And it was humid. The "real feel" temp was 108. It rained a bit and just made it more humid. Perfect riding temp for me is about 70-80. I can wear gear and move around.

I feel your pain . I live in south Alabama and want to install Carb , exhaust , adjust valves , sprockets and tune my new bike . Just to hot and humid to do that . I don't like to ride without gear ( jacket , boots , gloves etc.. ) but to hot to gear up for a nice afternoon ride . My next off day I will just have to sweat my butt off and try to enjoy the ride .

I hear ya. I try to ride in the morning when it's not so hot and where I am it's a dry climate, so an evaporative cooling vest helps too. :D

It's 5:30pm and 99 deg. Liike snobnd16, I don't ride without gear. I'll probably ride at 8pm.

When I leave for my 16 mile commute to work in the morning, it is about 85 F. On the way home it is about 105 F to 110 F with a few day of 115 F+. I used to do it on my TMEC 200 enduro, but now am on my TGB scooter. I just have to do it if I want a low-cost commute/low cost commuter vehicle. It's only for about 5 or 6 months out of the year, LOL...

you guys are warriors. my accountant butt needs to be in an AC vehicle for my 20 mile commute... oh and a coffee... and a doughnut never hurts either.

Culcune... hats off to ya.

It's fun to push it but I have to tell myself to think and remember when fatigue sets in risk increases.

It's amazing what a difference it makes even between 100f and 95f.

The prison unit I leave at the end of the day has air-conditioning like you wouldn't believe--I actually wear a sweatshirt it's so cold in my classroom. When I leave at 3:30, I leave the sweatshirt on for the ride home so as to not get sunburned!

I am actually riding because I have to--I could not afford a car solely for me and my commute; these Chinese bikes make the perfect choice, although my Taiwanese TGB has been an exception to the Chinese part.

I don't know how you guys in the humidity do it. I rode in 102' this weekend for a good chunk of the day but it's dry. I had no problems. The humidity makes it an entirely different game.

I went to my nephews wedding in Jacksonville many years ago and my sister was complaining that it would be 85' for a rose garden wedding. I said, "That's perfect!"...then I walked out into a sauna. It was awful. I was in my suit and had a little hair gel in for the family pics and that gel landed on my shoulders in a rodeo 8 seconds. I just started pouring sweat.

Yep....humidity. An entirely different heat game.

:lmao:

ride in circles at red lights to keep cool :D:D

Try riding in south Mississippi this time of year.... this past week my "feels like" weather was 119F. It was 96 with 72% humidity. I swear it was raining from the ground up. I lost about half my body's water cutting my grass and my neighbors with my push mower... and I'm used to it. As a basis of comparison, I grew up in SoCal, and New Mexico, so I know very well the beauty of dry heat as well.

I have some coworkers that travel to India regularly and they felt 114 deg They said it felt like a giant hair dryer on them. I'm slated to go next year so I get to feel 110 plug deg of dry heat. yay me... not. They said the nights cooled to 80 deg, and it felt very comfortable. Here 80 degree nights with humidity just plain sucks.

The heat and humidity is set to break around Wednesday so I will be back in the saddle then No commuting though, driving skills halfway between boston and NYC is a scarce resource. I drive a dodge 2500 so I win the physics contest if someone decided to hit me.

One day I will be where it is less populated so I can ride more freely, currently the Hawk is caged to trails, my property or my in laws farm. The roads, for me, are just to get to the trails.

word to ya Mississippi.

i call it summer...

been too wet here, rain city.
when wasn't raining, heat index up to 117, no thanks.
got to watch some olympics tho.:)
retirement not entirely bad :)

Indeed, we have Summer, and Christmas

Not directed at you...

As apposed to... it's this hot because....., and if we tax you, it will be fixed......oh please.

Coming soon:
Cooler temperature :clap:
Distracted drivers going back to school. >:( Worse, they're distracted now more than ever with Pokemon Go! :grr::doh:

By the end of the week the temp in CT should be nice. I can't wait.

Did an after-work cruise last night to evacuate some bad mojo out of my brain from the damn job. 78', bone dry, perfect. Got home after a mere 20 minutes out, two beers later, all was good!
As the saying goes.....You never see a motorcycle parked out in front of a physiatrists office.

:lmao: bikers wisdom

Between 7am and 8am, wow it was cold but a good feeling, I was grinning from ear to ear when I arrived at work.
The way back was the complete opposite from 5pm-6pm as it was in the high 90s. But still, a feel-good ride. Hard to be in a bad mood after riding.

What is this thing you speak of...cold? :hehe:

we are lucky enough to be able to ride pretty much all year round...
temps from 10c to 30c...



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This is a family friendly forum. :p

Riding before 8am and after 8pm, I need thicker jacket. I underestimated summer.

I have to laugh; here in Yuma, I go months with 'HOT' (coming home from work) and in the morning 'NOT AS HOT.'

Then, right about early October, cold air (morning commute) when riding near all the county properties using flood irrigation. Then, by later October, cool air no matter what. By November (and taking into account 55 to 60 mph winds from the ride) it is quite cold during the morning commute!

Here, it is all about the mornings--cooler than the inferno we start to get by mid-morning in the summers, and in the dead of winter, downright cold for riding--below freezing many mornings, and even when above freezing (probably in the 40's F most of the winter early mornings), still not ideal riding riding weather!

Again, this part of the summer, going home after work--literally hellish

The air condition moon suit. I guess thats in the same realm of the flying car.

I have an evaporative cooling vest and I think it helps. I'm in a dry hot climate though. I don't know how well it would work in high humidity, since it depends on evaporation to cool you.

Where are you at, I won't tell.

Thought you were back east, not out west.:hehe:

Nevada.

Nose bleeding and lips cracking already.

I did check this out online from your state

https://www.rockymountainatvmc.com/r...enix-adventure

I've definitely found that I have to get adjusted to the heat. I'm in Utah now but spent a couple of years in a semi-tropical climate in Central America. Once you spend a few (or several) days in it without relief, most bodies adapt. It's pretty miserable for those days, but if you stay hydrated, it turns out fine.

I knew some soldiers who served in Afghanistan and Iraq who got hypothermia... at 70 degrees F. They had gotten so used to the 130 degree temps out in the sun in full gear that they had to sleep in 0 degree rated mummy bags when the temp dropped below 90. The human body is amazing!