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How hot is too hot?

90’s are getting iffy for me, and getting more sensitive with age. 🥵 Hydrating, esp w cold drinks, and wet T shirt is key. Sometimes, if conditions warrant, I’ll stash my moto jacket and ride in a sun shirt. Short local rides I’ve ridden in shorts and a bicycle helmet. My FAVE TIP is a misting spray bottle resting on my tank bag available with left hand. 💦
 
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Yeah it's hot AF in the Central Valley. I'm driving to work this week.
 
wheel_muse said:
90’s are getting iffy for me, and getting more sensitive with age. 🥵 Hydrating, esp w cold drinks, and wet T shirt is key. Sometimes, if conditions warrant, I’ll stash my moto jacket and ride in a sun shirt. Short local rides I’ve ridden in shorts and a bicycle helmet. My FAVE TIP is a misting spray bottle available with left hand resting on my tank bag. 💦
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I used to ride with a Misty Mate on my bicycle for my hot rides (105-114) but it wasn't nearly as effective as the cooling towels for keeping me cool, especially since I was going 18 mph most of the ride.
 
My first foray into the heat, was my first trip to Death Valley, mid 70's year wise, not temps.

Today, I can get too much vitamin C, solar exposure, I couldn't hang with a ride up to Jerome yesterday,
Halfway there, I bailed, too hot of a wind blast, for me to endure, 112 in my sunny spot, weather report, 96 for Cottonwood, How ??
 
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When it’s over about 115 I say fuck it. If I’m on the road, I’m on the road and will slog through it. But I’ll also absolutely find a place to jump in the water and get cooled down.
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I'm kind of in the same mindset. If I'm going to work, or getting home with a deadline there's little in the way of weather that will make me throw in the towel. Like..... it would need to be physically, acutely harmful to my health or mechanically debilitating to my motorcycle (more likely now with the battery bike).

Riding for fun though, 95 or 100 degrees will have me stopping for cold drinks, ice cream, air conditioned establishments more than riding
 
The older I get the lower the too hot to ride temp is. The hottest I ever rode was coming back from the MotoGP years ago at Laguna. Saw 116 on my ST1300 temp gauge. Then it just started blinking. Stopped at Santa Nella and got two bottles of water, drank one and poured one under my mesh jacket. Bone dry in less than a mile. I like to ride in the Sierra Foothills and this time of the year they can be hotter than where a live.

Saw 102 on my outside weather station yesterday. Should be hotter today. I live on the edge of the Delta in Stockton and am 10 degrees hotter than east Stockton and the official weather station at the airport. My weather station is online at Weather Underground LVW Station and on AWN weather stations sites. This is my public dashboard includes my pool temp where I may be latter today.
 
Do we need to revisit the evaporative cooling thread? Type of oil makes a difference.
 
102 seems to be a lot of people's limit, here in the land of triple digits.

One thing I like to remind people is that the multiples above 98 are what's critical, so 106 is twice as dangerous as 102 because the rate of heat flow into your body is based off of a differential of 8 degrees rather than 4.
 
103 is the line for me...

Anything over 93, and you need a cooling towel, that needs to be resoaked every 30 minutes or so.
... even less time if you are wearing a fully mesh jacket.

I've seen the bag-o-ice bungeed to the windshield method of Moto-AC,... looks functional.
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I rode through 108F somewhere in Oregon on my cross-USA trip a couple years back. I remember spotting a Dairy Queen somewhere east of Bend and making a very abrupt turn into the parking lot in a desperate attempt to cool off. It was misery.

For most summer riding, I use the early hours of the morning to get to high altitude. (And I already live above 6k :laughing ) Was up near Taos last weekend and it was a nice 80F during the day and probably 55-60 at night.
 
Somewhere there's a picture of @planegray getting inside the beer cooler at a gas station convenience store on the return from Hawthorne one year.
 
I always pre-hydrate for hours before going on a really hot ride (on my bicycle), it's much better to start with a surplus when it gets really hot!

Dehydration makes it many times more dangerous.
 
There's a temp to time issue, the longer you're in a high temp the more in effects you and the longer to recover. An hour in 110 isn't as hard on you as 3 hours in 95. If you're riding in very hot weather you have to take longer breaks in cooler conditions to be able to ride some more. Once the air temp get's above a certain temp airflow no longer cools you, this is when you have to stop and find some way to cool down. In 2005 I rode to Tucson in July, 126 in Needles; spent an hour inside the air-conditioned gas station before I could ride again. I drank a half gallon of gatorade and a gallon of water in that hour. I had a camel back on that trip and was running out of water before gas.

Note: the first thing that hyperthermia effects is your judgement
 
Just wear some VNMsport baselayers and stay hydrated. I've done multiple rides down I5 in the summer no issue. I'll do an hour straight at the track (thunderhill) between instructing and riding for fun in 100+. Doing those without a good base layer though is very different.
 
Where I live in Pleasanton it’ll be 88 Saturday and 93 on Sunday.
If I have anything to do outside it needs to get done by noon cuz after that it’s indoors with the AC.
 
I stopped about every 30 minutes yesterday from Redding to willow creek to resoak. On the way back I’ll actually go inside to cool off. Noticed some judgement fade or maybe I was just more judgmental.
 
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