Riding season is over

[F-106]

Time to put the bike away for summer and start the summerime projects. It hit 101degs here today and there is no end in sight to the high temps. Going to do some painting and detailing on the valk over the next few months and get her ready for the winter riding season. I know this might sound a bit odd to some of you but just ask Mad 6 Gun. He cam by for a visit last summer. He can tell how hot it gets here. It is just no fun riding in this kind of heat.

[RTaz]

strange isn't it....here is what it looks like around here in the winter....

[X Ring]

F-106 where do you live, the desert southwest?

Marty

[Jabba]

I thought he lived in california.  I bought parts from him once.

Maybe I was wring, or he moved. 

Either way...we get it bro.  It get hot and humid here, not like where you are, but humid, and it's no fun for me sometimes too.  When it's like this... I try to ride in the AM's, and be done by noon.

Jabba

[Tropic traveler]

The hotter the better for me! Only bad thing about summer riding in Florida is the nearly guaranteed frog stranglers accompanied by lightning every afternoon. Those SUCK to ride through!
May to early June is the best for me. Mid to high 90's with a much lower chance of rain. 
October is good too, still nice & hot with diminished rain chances.
I'll never think it's too hot, if I start to I just have to think back to the HORRIBLE cold winter we had this last season! You can't put on enough clothes to keep warm. 

[vanagon40]

Here in central Indiana, all the bikes come out in April, May, and the first part of June (same with the convertibles).  By the 4th of July, only the hardcore riders (convertible owners) are left, everyone else has switched to AC.

I'm on the bike or in the convertible all summer.  Actually, I do not own a car with working AC (my wife's company truck and my daughter's Saturn both have AC, but no car that I use as a daily driver).  We are planning on a family trip to South Carolina the end of July and I will probably rent a van (I figure a once a year rental is cheaper than trying to fix the AC on my Astro van).

My next pet peeve, why do people with convertibles drive with all the windows up?  I think it looks stupid, but I guess I am missing something.  If you don't want to mess up your hair, put up the roof and turn on the AC (or buy a car with T-tops or a sun roof).  I went to my uncle and aunt's house this weekend and there in the garage sat their convertible with the top down and all the windows up.  Uncle Jim just turned 70, so I cut him some slack and keep my mouth shut.

Sorry for the thread hijack and no disrespect intended.  We do not hit triple digits often here in Indiana, so I cannot relate to riding in those temperatures.

[RP#62]

Cooled down to 104° here today.  I guess its all relative.
-RP

[FryeVRCCDS0067]

Here in central Indiana, all the bikes come out in April, May, and the first part of June (same with the convertibles).  By the 4th of July, only the hardcore riders (convertible owners) are left, everyone else has switched to AC.

I'm on the bike or in the convertible all summer.  Actually, I do not own a car with working AC (my wife's company truck and my daughter's Saturn both have AC, but no car that I use as a daily driver).  We are planning on a family trip to South Carolina the end of July and I will probably rent a van (I figure a once a year rental is cheaper than trying to fix the AC on my Astro van).

My next pet peeve, why do people with convertibles drive with all the windows up?  I think it looks stupid, but I guess I am missing something.  If you don't want to mess up your hair, put up the roof and turn on the AC (or buy a car with T-tops or a sun roof).  I went to my uncle and aunt's house this weekend and there in the garage sat their convertible with the top down and all the windows up.  Uncle Jim just turned 70, so I cut him some slack and keep my mouth shut.

Sorry for the thread hijack and no disrespect intended.  We do not hit triple digits often here in Indiana, so I cannot relate to riding in those temperatures.

I know why people with convertibles drive with the windows up. The air conditioner still keeps you cool if you roll up the windows.

[F-106]

Fresno Ca, we hit 109 a few days ago.

F-106 where do you live, the desert southwest?

Marty

[Jabba]

If they wanted to be cool... then why have the top down on a convertable?  I am with Vanagon40 on this.

When I see people with the tops down, and the windows UP, I always think of an old man mowing the grass with black socks, shorts and sandals.

Jabba

[fudgie]

If they wanted to be cool... then why have the top down on a convertable?  I am with Vanagon40 on this.

When I see people with the tops down, and the windows UP, I always think of an old man mowing the grass with black socks, shorts and sandals.

Jabba

We had a firebird that was convertable and yes, on occasion, would roll the window up. It helps with the wind noice in the cabin. cant remember if its the conv or t-tops, but i would get alot of buffiting. windows help with it. I hate AC. I use it in my truck maybe twice a year. Have to use it in the ambulances but turn away my vents. Do have a window unit at home but turn it off when Kits not home.

[solo1]

I drive with the right window on the Miata rolled up when the top is down.  If I don't, I get buffeting  on the back of my head, just about like a bike with a windshield.  I also have a small scoop which snaps into place on the top of the windshield and smooths the air.  I have a windscreen (it came with the car) which is a frame with mesh that plugs into sockets right behind the backrests which also stops the buffeting.  i very seldom use it 'cause it looks dorky (is that the word?)

There, now you know more than asked for about convertibles, well, roadsters, in this instance.

I might add, driving the Miata is the closest thing ,for me, to riding, and it's easier on my knees. It doesn't bank but will corner fairly well 

In this hot muggy weather it's not bad but if it's too much, up goes the top and the AC comes on.  Man, that AC works great in the small cockpit of the Miata.

[Willow]

Riding season!!?   

Is there a breathing season?      

[Serk]

My next pet peeve, why do people with convertibles drive with all the windows up?

We recently inherited a convertible Beetle (New one, not a real one), and generally roll the windows up at freeway speeds, but down when just cruising around town. On the freeway, the buffeting can get really bad...

As far as the original poster... I'm basically with Willow on that... There are individual days where I don't feel up to facing the heat, or the cold, but saying the whole season is over? Ouch... That just hurts to even think about a riding SEASON, 'cause that'd mean there's also a NOT Riding Season, and that's just anathema to me!

[alph]

i try and ride as often as possible.  being that there's only 6 months of good riding weather here in wisconsin.  enjoy the heat while you can, they say that global warming is the reason why last winter was so long!!

[highcountry]

Pretty much ride year around here on the Front Range.  We have many dry days in the 40-50s in the winter.  And, of course, there are the summers.  People start bitching here when it reaches the 90s.  But a short ride to foothills/mountains takes care of that problem.