What is the hootest temperature you have ridden in.

[dpep]

Florida will get above 100 on a few days in the summer, but the Atlantic and Gulf keep it from getting into the one teens and one twenties you guys are describing for the deserts. That is the good news. The bad news is that the Atlantic and Gulf keep the humidity from getting below 90 on those really hot days. That little trick of wetting down your jacket and getting evaporative cooling as you move through the air doesn't get it here. Your jacket is likely to be wetter at the end of the ride than when you started.

[Dad]

Anybody here from Michigan??

Have you been to Hell and back? (Hell, Michigan)

Now THAT would be a hot trip.

[Giblet]

113F this summer.

[Giblet]

I went to Vegas to see a friend one weekend & he told me to bring my bike & we'd go for a ride while I was there. So I put the old 1150 in the truck & went to Vegas. We left his house at 7:00 in the morning & it was 99 degrees. By the time we got back at 12:30 it was 116! It was absolutely NO fun. Honestly, it was like riding in an oven! Ray.

But, it was a "dry" heat, right? :-D

[850 Combat]

105 in Kansas

I bought my original RD 400 in Wichita Kansas. It was 105 or hotter every day at 5:00 pm it seemed. Humid too.

I was riding from Yosemite to So Cal on '81 on my Commando. It had to have been at least that hot going up the grape vine. It was running a single carb and jetted for Denver, where I had been living and had ridden from. It got so hot it would not idle at the top of the hill. An exhaust cam lobe burned out on it shortly thereafter at about 21000 miles.

FWITW, an decent 850 Commando will pull a GS 850 or 2 valve GS 1000 in a roll on from 60. Not in a drag or top end, just in a roll on. At 90 or so, the GS 1000 will steam back on by with quite a bit of speed in hand after the roll on.

I love my "G" model Suzukis, one of the best bikes ever made IMO, and certainly the best of its era / genre but that Commando is like a part of me. I've had it for 30 years. It was also the best of its genre and era.

I forgot. I' '83 M dad, brother, and I rode to Flagstaff from Lake Elsinore. It was 111 in Needles where we got a room. Crossing the desert to Needles was a bitch. It was 41 below zero here today. Not riding weather.

[Roland]

July 4th,2002. My buddies girlfriend heatstroked on the back of the bike 5 miles outta Panamint Springs. We got her there,hosed her down and called the paramedics.

Hey Rifleman,
Just checking, was she wearing long sleeves?

My understanding is if you don't have your skin covered the wind will wick the water right out of you much faster and will quickly dehydrate you much faster than sweating into a long sleeved shirt.

[Goose]

In '85, while stationed in San Diego, I went for a ride with a buddy over the mountains and down into the dessert. I was riding an 84 Honda XL600R, he was riding an older Yamaha cruiser. We stopped at a gas station to fuel up and get water. The big thermometer, in the shade, under the awning by the pumps, read 118... Obviously, we didn't time our ride very well, since we hit the dessert at noon.

[MelodicMetalGod]

We can call it the "Hotters 125" run.

Shouldn't that been a EVEN number...!??!!??!? :shock:

[nicholascott]

I live in the desert here in Southern California. In the summer time it gets well above 105 degrees. Rode in it once. It was like riding into a blow dryer!

[texassparrow]

:twisted: The hottest i have riden in is 106 in Texas from Fort worth to Galveston in august.

Here in California it has been 102 so far.

[Roland]

:twisted: The hottest i have riden in is 106 in Texas from Fort worth to Galveston in august.

Here in California it has been 102 so far.

102? That just makes me feel ill as we are still dealing with temps ranging from 20's to low 40s in upstate NY and here it is the middle of April.

[ron bayless]

In texas,just last year,109 degrees.I live 23 miles from where i came out of the bookstore and dang near stroked out before i got home.You need a camelback with gatorade for those kind of days.

[RIFLEMAN]

Hey Rifleman,
Just checking, was she wearing long sleeves?

My understanding is if you don't have your skin covered the wind will wick the water right out of you much faster and will quickly dehydrate you much faster than sweating into a long sleeved shirt.

Tank top and half hat on the back of a Nighttrain. Funny thing was,here boyfriend was wearing a one piece Teknic suit with a half hat. He swore that the suit kept him hydrated.
Fortunately,we had a chase truck(Hey,20 Harleys and my lone FZ750/1040,we were going to need it eventually-and did!). We bought a big cooler in Bishop and filled it with Gatorade & bottled water. The second day of the trip,from Bishop to Virginia City,then the rest of the trip from Virginia City through the Gold Country to Yosemite all I wore was a T-shirt and alot of SPF 50 and did fine,but I took every opportunity to hydrate. Really the worse part of the trip was the Monument. There was a point before Panamint that I was expecting little red guys with horns,pointed tails and pitchforks to be on the shoulder hitchhiking! I thought I new what hot was,but that day was a new level.

[koolaid_kid]

I remember riding in Houston in the 70s, it was above 110 in the shade (peak) for over a week, with close to 100% humidity. Didn't really have a choice, all I had was my T305 Suzuki, no car.

[chef1366]

I remember riding in Houston in the 70s, it was above 110 in the shade (peak) for over a week, with close to 100% humidity. Didn't really have a choice, all I had was my T305 Suzuki, no car.

100% humidity.






OUCH!!!!!!!!!!