You know it’s too hot to ride when...
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sprorchid
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bud, I am good till about 100 degrees, then it gets ugly fast, heat stroke, vaso-vagal response (I have really low bp).
It’s one thing passing out during a softball game, another thing passing out on a moto.
I have been so stinky after a sweltering ride, arriving at work, taking my leather jacket, I cleared My co workers Out, about a 10 foot radius, and that is pretty stinky for me.
It’s one thing passing out during a softball game, another thing passing out on a moto.
I have been so stinky after a sweltering ride, arriving at work, taking my leather jacket, I cleared My co workers Out, about a 10 foot radius, and that is pretty stinky for me.
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two wheel tramp
exploring!
Lifting the shield and realizing it's better with it down is hot. FreeRyde and I rode through some 105+ degree shit. He had bubble guts from a gas station breakfast burrito so he was stinking up his 'stich. Good times.
Coming back from the Cal24 I was putting ice in my pants pockets to cool off. That was noon in Sacramento during the summer time... after doing 1K in 24 hours, riding home on a few hours sleep. :loco
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motomania2007
TC/MSF/CMSP/ Instructor
It is too hot to be riding when you lack the strength to get off the bike due to heat exhaustion.
Did a 6-hour endurance race at Willow Springs ON THE 4TH OF JULY! WTF WAS I THINKING!
Rolled into my pits at the end of my first stint, I was too weak to get off the bike. My crew pulled me off the bike, over the pit wall, I was barely breathing and they poured water over my head and cold towels from the cooler on my neck... seemed like it took forever for them to peel the leathers off...
Went back out to ride the last stint of the race 2.5 hours later...
Did a 6-hour endurance race at Willow Springs ON THE 4TH OF JULY! WTF WAS I THINKING!
Rolled into my pits at the end of my first stint, I was too weak to get off the bike. My crew pulled me off the bike, over the pit wall, I was barely breathing and they poured water over my head and cold towels from the cooler on my neck... seemed like it took forever for them to peel the leathers off...
Went back out to ride the last stint of the race 2.5 hours later...
Ya that one!
RightCoastBias
F8TRED
I rode a few days off road through Arizona, into Utah. The worst was riding from Zion back to Vegas where we had staged our trucks, 15 across the NV desert we had 115 degree temps and 30mph gusting crosswinds. I couldn't find a way to stay cool, especially wearing dirt bike gear, with a hair dryer being blown across my body. I was sucking empty my 2L camelback way too quickly, we hair/bandanas were drying within minutes. Totally fucking miserable experience.
It was pretty great walking through a Vegas casino covered in dirt and stink after a few days in the desert.
It was pretty great walking through a Vegas casino covered in dirt and stink after a few days in the desert.
flipstyledsm22
Lets go fishing!
I don't have a good track story, but I was in dead traffic in Houston on my Harley. It was 102 and it started raining. The rain only lasted 2 minutes and it felt like hot bath water. Then the humidity started setting in... I felt like a crab in a boiling pot of water. No wind, hot temps, 200% humidity, straddling an hot vibrating iron... It was hell.
berth
Well-known member
I have ridden in Heat, but not Humidity.
If sweat is running down anything, it's not hot enough.
Full gear in the eat may be hot, but it's vastly better than the alternative where you dry up like a wick in the wind.
Riding to Utah one day, in the summer, my friend took off his jacket, and I joined along in Las Vegas.
I didn't last an hour before I had a pounding headache and proceeded to strive to drain every last drop of iced tea that the community of Mesquite could produce. It was awful.
If sweat is running down anything, it's not hot enough.
Full gear in the eat may be hot, but it's vastly better than the alternative where you dry up like a wick in the wind.
Riding to Utah one day, in the summer, my friend took off his jacket, and I joined along in Las Vegas.
I didn't last an hour before I had a pounding headache and proceeded to strive to drain every last drop of iced tea that the community of Mesquite could produce. It was awful.
Tim-That CX Guy
Resident Window Licker
The tar snakes turn your front end into a Slip n Slide.
cg_ops
1-Armed Bandit
When the faster you go, the hotter you get. That was a miserable experience - 114* at Buttonwillow
Drank 2 gallons of water by 3pm and STILL didn't pee till the last session at almost 5
After the 2pm session I took my leathers off and they left a (very quick drying) puddle under where I hung them.
The biggest problem of the day was crashing due to greasy tires.
Drank 2 gallons of water by 3pm and STILL didn't pee till the last session at almost 5
After the 2pm session I took my leathers off and they left a (very quick drying) puddle under where I hung them.
The biggest problem of the day was crashing due to greasy tires.
bikewanker
Well-known member
When you look for sprinklers to ride through. And go back!
When you ride next to a tractor trailer for the shade ( keeping mirror eye contact of course).
When you ride next to a tractor trailer for the shade ( keeping mirror eye contact of course).
I hear you...:laughing @ coworkers.
I don't like fucking 90 but on long rides my cooling vest is a miracle.
I did a track day at THill with most of the day well over 100.
108 was the high.
Man that was tough.. I was doing everything right to stay as cool as hell, keep fluids moving, do rag from cooler to head as soon as I came off the track etc.
I still skipped the last session and going home I had terrible thigh cramps..
3 hours of trying not to move.. soon as I did.. FUCK.
I weighed 8 lbs less the next morning.
We have seen some hot weather on rallies.. no turning back. Ride it out.
dravnx
Well-known member
This is my bible for hot weather riding. These guys know how to do it.
http://www.ironbutt.com/ibmagazine/ironbutt_1002_62-66_hot.pdf
http://www.ironbutt.com/ibmagazine/ironbutt_1002_62-66_hot.pdf
WWWobble
This way...That way...
Nah. Not for me anymore. Riding in 110+ weather isn't fun. Riding is supposed to be fun. So...
...to make riding fun again, I'll be looking for any motel with functioning A/C, promising myself I'll get up at 4 AM to make up for lost time. This tactic also sometimes avoids those nasty afternoon thunder storms that lot's of this country gets when it's hot.
Big ZOT BOOM lightning storms are my number 2 "motorcycling creep out" right there after HEAVY GROUND FOG.
...to make riding fun again, I'll be looking for any motel with functioning A/C, promising myself I'll get up at 4 AM to make up for lost time. This tactic also sometimes avoids those nasty afternoon thunder storms that lot's of this country gets when it's hot.
Big ZOT BOOM lightning storms are my number 2 "motorcycling creep out" right there after HEAVY GROUND FOG.
CDONA
Home of Vortex tuning
I have spent a year living in Bullhead City,
Where the time & temp on the bank clock reads 120, from sun up to after dark.
120 will dry you out so fast on a simple cross town errand, it takes multiple glasses of fluid for relief, and some form of AC.
106 everyone is out and shopping, la de da, another sunny day in AZ.
Things like doorhandles are covered to prevent burns from bare metal.
I spent most of this heat on the water with my kayak.
Where the time & temp on the bank clock reads 120, from sun up to after dark.
120 will dry you out so fast on a simple cross town errand, it takes multiple glasses of fluid for relief, and some form of AC.
106 everyone is out and shopping, la de da, another sunny day in AZ.
Things like doorhandles are covered to prevent burns from bare metal.
I spent most of this heat on the water with my kayak.
