Too hot to ride

[trustme]

When I rode through the Nevada Desert in 07 it was 48 deg c. Was actually better to close the helmet vents and jacket vents as the hot air rushing in made it worse!

Lil old NZ ain't such a bad place to ride in after all.

+1 Death Valley 48 in the shade at the Ranger Station, hotter again in the centre of the Valley. Worse still main drag of Las Vegas 117f what ever that is & stuck in a traffic jam

Smoky is right, as I entered the valley stopped to talk to a couple on a Goldthing, they were in a t shirt & jeans & were suffering, they could not understand how I could be wearing full gear, told them to cover up with long sleeve shirts , gloves & visor down , bloody hot but they admited it was an improvement

[Dean]

When on a hot day ride, use those bags that hold a chilled drink and have a tube that can fit under the helmet, that way your mouth dosent get dry and you dont get thirsty.I recomend it, even though i havent really had one but ive seen other riders use it.And dont drink beer on a extremely hot day because you get wasted way quicker

[Pickle]

Bet a beer - even a crappy VB never tasted so good as it would riding in weather like that.

It would have to get even hotter or all the other beer has run out to drink VB.

Very reluctant to try putting more clothing on but may try it next weekend as supposed to be going to a Rally in Lower Hunter Valley, then 2 weeks after that is World Superbikes at Phillip Island camping at track.
Viv's Scott oiler also emptied itself in less than 200kms as the oil had got so thin.

[smoky]

It would have to get even hotter or all the other beer has run out to drink VB..

I enjoyed VB when I lived over there, I thought it was much the same as Waikato, I really liked drinking Red Back and Elephant beer too
I guess I like the strong flavour over the weaker tasting fizzy crap that seems to be the preference now days

[Pickle]

I enjoyed VB when I lived over there, I thought it was much the same as Waikato,

Enough said really!!!

Just hit 58C in the back yard

[Manxman]

Would you rather you were in England at the moment???

Can't imagine anyone wanting to be in England right now...even if there was perpetual sunshine and neverending beer + wimmin on tap: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/default.stm . Not much good news, eh? Apart from Liverpool winning of course.

/back on topic.

[XxKiTtiExX]

Just hit 58C in the back yard

My brother is already suffering from extremely bad headaches and stuff because of the heat here, and he's moving to aussie on tuesday.. Mad... Absolutely mad!

[longwayfromhome]

The key to all this is hydration...the gear you wear makes a difference, but basically whatever you wear can work as long as you are hydrated.

Its pretty common practice for those that ride any distance to use CamelBak-type packs and to drink regularly, or sip almost continuously, when temperatures get up there. Its not just for touring/long-distance types. Around SanFran where I rode for the last year, when it gets bloody hot, at least as hot as what you are talking about, virtually all sports-bike riders doing anything like a decent ride all wear a back protector and a CamelBak....over a t-shirt :-)

[Big Dave]

CWB - The country that makes Steinlager knocking VB. Yeah Right.

[Tank]

CWB - The country that makes Steinlager knocking VB. Yeah Right.

We may make it - but I dont know anyone who actually drinks the stuff. We sell most of it offshore.

[Horse]

Steiny Pure on the other hand...

[Big Dave]

We may make it - but I dont know anyone who actually drinks the stuff. We sell most of it offshore.

Ah - Like Forsters.

[merv]

Enough said really!!!

Just hit 58C in the back yard

Crikey that'd be enough to pickle anyone. Take care and stay away from the fires and say hi to Viv for me. I was last in Canberra two years ago and it was suffering smoke from the Victoria fires of that year - seems to be happening too often don't ya reckon?

[smoky]

Hmmm I wonder;
what if you could fit a small aircon unit to your bike, just a small one running off the main drive out of the gear box from a double sprocket arrangement or some thing. then have a couple of feeder tubes - one into the jacket and one into the helmet!!!
Maybe possible - there's some clever bastards around

[smoky]

http://www.motoring.co.za/index.php?...759&fSetId=381
"An Israeli inventor has developed a motorcycle vest that has cold air circulating inside it from an electric "air-conditioning" unit, mounted on the bike.

Physicist Glen Guttman said his company, Entrosys, had developed an electronic unit powered by a standard motorcycle battery to funnel cold air into a thermal undershirt worn under the rider's heavy outer jacket.

The system doesn't need a compressor and the technology is quite simple but "like any simple idea, you have to think it up and then you have to implement it".

Unlike a domestic air-conditioner, the miniature system uses electronic technology in which various factors convert electric current into hot or cold airflow"