Too hot to ride

[Pickle]

We were supposed to go to a Rally this weekend near Mytleford in Victoria, Australia. Finished work at 3.30, got home ready to go, checked the temperature 33C inside with the aircon going, outside had reached 51C in our back yard. No worries we thought, needed to try out our new vented jackets anyway, left Canberra out onto the Hume & the heat was unbearable, riding directly into the sun didnt even realise we had good tinted visors on. Try leaving the visor up a bit & it was like someone shoving a hot fan heater in your face, the wind through the vented jacket again like a hot fan heater. Riding at a steady 120kmh didnt help & both bikes temperature gauges were going up, the ZX6 was reading high 90s & the KLR was near the red.
At one point the traffic had stopped due to a small fire on the road side.
We stopped at the next town in the shade to rehydrate, pulled the water bottles out of our packs & the water was nearly to hot to drink, poured some water over us & carried on to Holebrook, the next 5minutes were cool due to the water evaporating, then back to the hot fan heater.
Stayed in Holebrook for the night in a nice cool aircon room - next morning rode home as we were both suffering from the heat, left at 7.30am to try & beat the heat. Back in Canberra the temp was getting hot again so drink plenty of cool liquid & sit in front of the aircon unit & fan.
Today we see that the area where the Rally was being held was razed with the big bush fires.

[bones135]

Far out man, we got about 28-30 here where i am & thats bad enough so can only imagine what it must have been like for you guys.
Hope they get those fires sorted soon too, not good at all.

[Crasherfromwayback]

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.

[Skunk]

Stop ya whining... or move back here.

[Tank]

I believe that the appropriate term used on KB is HTFU.

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

[Dean]

I believe that the appropriate term used on KB is HTFU.

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

No wonder why they sell vb in australia, i bectha the aussies would say even a crappy tui never tasted better in cold weather like that . lol at times like these im glad we live in a reasonably stable temperature country.

[Crasherfromwayback]

VB

Vagina Bile.

[Taz]

It's like 27 degrees over here. I just got back from pukekohe classics (night shift tonight and I need my beauty sleep) and I almost worked up a sweat!!! And you think you got it bad??

[fliplid]

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

[smoky]

I remember transiting the top of Western Australia and the Northern territory in some extreme temperature
The guy I was riding with was use to the heat and taught me the best way to avoid over heating, it sounds weird but;

As the temperature during the day increased we put more clothes on and limited the air flow into our suits and helmets

The idea behind this is simple - INSULATION is your friend

Our bodies deal with temperature by using evaporative cooling from perspiration in normal circumstances, and the air flow or air pressure to our skin - allows for the conduction of the heat away from our body.
But when air temperatures increase too high, above our bodies natural defense, the heat is conducted into our body from the hot wind - the opposite to "Wind Chill", dependent on the relative humidity of the air.

You don’t want to increase the wind against your skin when the temperature gets extreme. You need to insulate your body from the wind.
You will actually stay cooler with a conventional suit. Looser fitting suits to decrease heat transfer from your body surface helps.

Who would want to ride with jeans on under their leathers in that heat !!! But it’s all in your mind – yes it will be uncomfortable and your mind will tell you ‘take them off’, but in reality it’s not as uncomfortable as riding with just your boxers on in your leathers.



Actually black suits tend to absorb heat - light colored suits reflect heat - so ditch the black look for pink, or harden up and stay in black

[Conquiztador]

And another thing to consider: A watercooled motor will try to keep the temperature at right level, and you have a temp indicator. But on a air cooled one, there is no telling what goes on inside.

I learnt this the hard way when years ago I travelled in NT in Oz. The oil in the DR500 was probably not of highest quality, and in the heat it turned really thin and did not do its job. As a result I wore out the cams etc.

[marty]

just nice in cambridge at the moment. 23 deg inside, 30 out. lovely.

[riffer]

Bastard.

We're at 33, and climbing...

http://www.wmac.org.nz/trenthamweather/

[Subike]

34 inside house at Greta Valley
um err, 43 outside on the front porch
Im off fo a ride very soon
too hot to stay at home

[Karl@Alpha]

Mmmm... My bit of the shop has AC.
But I can sense an uprising so I might stop gloting for a bit...
Not keen on getting back into the leathers but the dragons are in the wash!