Too Hot

[DIGGER]

Been several weeks since I rode my Valkyrie.   Left the house this morning around 7:30 am.   Rode 60 miles to Sealy to my favorite breakfast place for a lot of coffee and a good breakfast.  There a while as i had to take care of some phone business.     Left there and meanderrd along my usual route that takes me a little over 200 miles thru the countryside to back home.   Half way thru it started getting really hot.  Then a while later it got unbearably hot.   I kept thinking "this is not fun".   I noticed that in 145 miles i had not seen but 3 Harleys in a group.  Not 1 more motorcycle anywhere.  Not on the roads....at service stations I passed....not in parking lots of restaurants or stores.   Not another motorcycle anywhere.....only 1 explanation fits the bill.....its just too frigging hot to be out riding.   If you do....make sure you got a couple of bottled waters with you just in case.

[Rams]

Morning rides to be home before noon is what I'm doing currently.   But the last three days I've been working on a small construction project, had to dig some post holes for a wall and set of doors I plan to hang on the front of a three-sided outbuilding.  Diggin through about four inches of packed gravel/rock and then some hard packed red clay.   Damn that stuff is hard.   It's not been what I'd call a lot of fun.   Soaked with sweat by the time I got the first one dug, came in to cool off.   Temps and humidity just kept climbing.   So, I decided to do more the next day.   So far, four holes in four days. 

I'm not about to get heat stroke if I can avoid it.   Doesn't matter how long it takes, that outbuilding has been there many years and closing in the fourth side is more about making it's appearance more acceptable.   

Yeah, it's rather wet and warm out there.     Tomorrow, I'll be sitting inside a building tending to a primary election.   Never thought I'd look forward to that.   

Rams

[f6john]

Kentucky was fabulous today. Had chores to do so the bike set but the day isn’t over yet! They actually make an auger for Tractors than will knock that out in a hurry. Of course tomorrow is another day and the temperature will swing sooner or later.

[Rams]

They actually make an auger for Tractors than will knock that out in a hurry.

Oh, now you tell me!!!!   

Rams 

[Oss]

I notice that when it gets into the low 40s. Usually I will be on the 1150

When it is winter I may see 1 bike all morning  often when I get into Harriman Park and the alpine lake region


Usually a bmw or old person like me but on a harley

I enjoy winter riding more than 90 plus weather

[cookiedough]

I notice that when it gets into the low 40s. Usually I will be on the 1150

When it is winter I may see 1 bike all morning  often when I get into Harriman Park and the alpine lake region


Usually a bmw or old person like me but on a harley

I enjoy winter riding more than 90 plus weather

Oss, your NY winter's must not be as COLD then as WI winters.  I go until a week or two before the snow flies usually end of November then done.  Below 40 degrees and not worth the bitter cold.  I do agree though over 90 degrees is worse on me than say 45 degree temps while on my cycles. 

[f6john]

66 degrees at 7 AM when I rode into town this morning, had to pull over and put on my lite jacket. It was 71 at noon and clear sky’s but I’ll manage somehow!

[Pappy!]

While riding back from Inzane I had my YETI 26oz cup filled with ice and water every fuel stop. As we meandered South I added my evaporative cooling vest to it.
Quite right.....pretty darned hot for riding right now.