How hot is too hot to ride?

[fudgie]

. . . . Stopped and took every thing off but the vest. It was freaking awesome! So much better without being 'contained'. . . .

I'm trying really hard to erase the image from my mind of you riding after having taken "every thing off but the vest."         

You never rode nekkid? 

[RP#62]

I've found that above 108°, you're cooler if you're not moving.
-RP

[jer0177]

I've found that above 108°, you're cooler if you're not moving.
-RP

Anything above 98.6* (for us "normal" types) and your body can't naturally cool it down.

You can introduce artificial cooling - evaporative or some other method, but without that, you're cooking yourself.

I did have to go out today, and the temp at the house was 97.  I took the car - it has A/C - and the outside temp gauge in it said 101. 

And this is Pittsburgh in June!  I hate to see what July and August bring.   

[junior]

god i love New Hampshire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no helmet law,no dress code crap we can ride buttass naked as long as we aint preforming any lewd acts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Rams]

god i love New Hampshire!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no helmet law,no dress code crap we can ride buttass naked as long as we aint preforming any lewd acts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Junior,
This is not a picture I want in my head.  Now, please make it go away. 

[Hoser]

You do realize it's gonna be hot in Eureka Springs, don't you?  I still love it, though.  Hoser 

[Sodbuster]

Four of us were on a bike trip one year and ended up going thru the badlands in S.D.  It was right around 100° before we went in but once we started riding into the badlands the temps rose quickly. The thermometer on the handlebars was reading in the neighborhood of 120° !!  Never experienced anything so frickin hot. We had some water with and stopped a few times.

I actually got goosebumps it was so hot 

[Six Guns]

Last summer here in Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth) area we had 71 days at temperatures of 100 degrees or higher. I believe that was a record for this area. I rode all summer long. 

[Jess from VA]

Too hot to ride, how about to hot to sleep in your house?

Biggest wind in NoVA in my 20 years (maybe 80 mph), thought my house was gonna blow away. No power, generator stays on 20 minutes then dies (@##$%), then starts right up, near 100.  Can't run the 220 AC anyway, but can save the food.  Huge mess, bad back.

Sleeping/living in the basement with the spiders.  LOL 

[RP#62]

Being in the desert, I've done a lot of riding at triple digits.  I don't consider 105° too hot to ride.  I've done all day rides at that temp no problem.  116° however is a big problem.  We ended up having to stop every 20 minutes and saturating our shirts and 10 min later they were bone dry again.  You overheat quickly and can't get cool and it starts to affect your judgement.  105 with single digit humidity though is not bad.  Back east, with high humidity would be a different story.  I was in Charlotte this past Monday and at 89, it felt as hot to me as Phoenix at 110.

-RP

[Michael K (Az.)]

Being in the desert, I've done a lot of riding at triple digits.  I don't consider 105° too hot to ride.  I've done all day rides at that temp no problem.  116° however is a big problem.  We ended up having to stop every 20 minutes and saturating our shirts and 10 min later they were bone dry again.  You overheat quickly and can't get cool and it starts to affect your judgement.  105 with single digit humidity though is not bad.  Back east, with high humidity would be a different story.  I was in Charlotte this past Monday and at 89, it felt as hot to me as Phoenix at 110.

-RP

Exactly! My years in Daytona taught me that long rides @ 90 with high humidity were more damaging than where and when I'm riding now. Evaporation seems nonexistent down South.

[Robert]

I don't know what you guys are talking about its regularly 110 on my bike thermometer when riding here in the summer time with about 80 to 99 percent humidity

[Michael K (Az.)]

Regularly 110?? Don't seem to recall many 110 degree days in the decade or so I lived there. I'm thinkin, uh, none.

[wobray]

The question was " how hot........."
90 degree F.

[X Ring]

Regularly 110?? Don't seem to recall many 110 degree days in the decade or so I lived there. I'm thinkin, uh, none.

The air temp above asphalt will always be hotter than the normal air temp due to he being radiated back from the pavement.  When I was stationed at Edwards AFB, CA in the Mojave desert it wasn't uncommon for flightline temps to be 120-130* when the normal air temp was 90* or so.

Marty

[sidecarrick]

96 degrees here today and we rode 450km. Not too hot, but pretty close- humidity was sky-high!

[Michael K (Az.)]

Regularly 110?? Don't seem to recall many 110 degree days in the decade or so I lived there. I'm thinkin, uh, none.

The air temp above asphalt will always be hotter than the normal air temp due to he being radiated back from the pavement.  When I was stationed at Edwards AFB, CA in the Mojave desert it wasn't uncommon for flightline temps to be 120-130* when the normal air temp was 90* or so.


Marty

Very true altho I'd imagine that most people posting temp. #'s here are probably using ambient air temps like what ya see on the weather channel so, as I said,"Regularly 110?? Don't seem to recall many 110 degree days in the decade or so I lived there. I'm thinkin, uh, none."

[Big Tom 10628]

PGR Mission this wednesday.  I was riding....

[cookiedough]

All you guys are tougher than me.  I was cooking my legs in 97 temps on Thursday and 30 miles was enough for me.  Must be just me, but with no wind movement it is harder to breathe.  Luckily most of the 30 miles was hwy. with limited traffic stops at the beginning.  

On an off note,  this heat with NO rain the past 3-4 weeks everyday in the 90's has taken it's toll on my garden.  I have watered every few days but my peas are shot, green beans are a joke only have like 10 beans to pick when usually by now have a full huge bowl picked.  Everything else planted totally sucks as well.   This is the worst garden  since built house in 1993 having to plant most items 3 times already.  Darn bugs and rabbits eating leaves off fresh plants with nothing left and moles digging holes with no rain for weeks.  I give up on my garden this year, worst year ever.

[RP#62]

My cactus are doing great.
-RP

[Robert]

Regularly 110?? Don't seem to recall many 110 degree days in the decade or so I lived there. I'm thinkin, uh, none.

I can post the thermometer on the bike but someone has already done that this pic is the shop thermometer and you will notice the temp. Now that was indoors with the garage doors open and fans blowing hard. 
that should have been stated if you made the rules on the post.
I can also post a pic of the bike thermometer tomorrow and show more like 112

[Michael K (Az.)]

http://coolweather.net/statetemperature/florida_temperature.htm

I believe I only stated what I recalled. I wouldn't know anything about you. Just me and my recaller.
Hey Tom! Did you move to Fl. or are you still about 10 miles from my house, here in Az. Heh heh.

[Michael K (Az.)]

My cactus are doing great.
-RP

I read that there's gonna be a cold snap come Wed. best throw a binky over them prickley puppies!

[Robert]

I would rather have 115 in the desert than 95 in SFla any day at least your sweat evaporates I get so tired of being wet. I can remember being out at Lake Mead in the summer was 125.
  X ring  I don't know how you did it at Edwards being in that heat Ive been there in summer and if you walked from one building to the next you were ok, but anything beyond that forget.

[hotglue #43]

My cactus are doing great.
-RP

I have aloe vera plants... they say to water them when it rains in El Paso..... they had a drought there last year.... all my plants died.....

[Michael K (Az.)]

And you haven't lived until you've sunk a kickstand!!

[RP#62]

My cactus are doing great.
-RP

I have aloe vera plants... they say to water them when it rains in El Paso..... they had a drought there last year.... all my plants died.....

You have to be careful with aloes.  A lot of them go dormant when it gets real hot and if you water them then, they turn to mush.

[Big Tom 10628]

http://coolweather.net/statetemperature/florida_temperature.htm

I believe I only stated what I recalled. I wouldn't know anything about you. Just me and my recaller.
Hey Tom! Did you move to Fl. or are you still about 10 miles from my house, here in Az. Heh heh.

Nope no Florida for me...  Still right down the road from you....

[OverdueBill]

I'm loving this weather.  It's my favorite time of year.  Could use a little rain.  When it gets over 95, I ride the vtx.  Cooler little vtwin.  Now when it gets down to the 60s, I put the bikes up for winter.  Cold sux.

[BIG--T]

I ride a vtx too and it ain't that much cooler!  60s, 70s and 80's are perfect for me. 90s-115....not so much!