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    #16
    Originally posted by gsbill View Post
    Arizona desert heat 100-110 plus. We rode mostly off road, dual sport stuff. Train for the heat. Proper hydration plus nutrition. We d easily do full day 100s of miles. We d have riders join via online that wouldn’t make it one hour. We d abort those adventures and accompany the red hot riders back to AC. Water and electrolytes. Caution knowing when to cool down. Good times another life ago.

    I ride a bicycle in 100 degree plus weather. Kinda get accustomed to it within your known limits.

    All heat is not equal. There is a big difference between 100 deg with 20% humidity and 100 deg with 90% humidity It's all about dewpoint.
    Komorebi-The light filtering through the trees.

    I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. H.D.T.
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      #17
      Agree. I don’t like or do humidity. We get single digit humidity in AZ quite often. Generally like campfire heat.
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        #18
        [QUOTE=gsbill;n1751274]Agree. I don’t like or do humidity. We get single digit humidity in AZ quite often. Generally like campfire heat. [/
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        t don't get single digit humidity here. heh eh It is rare I see anything less than 60%.

        Komorebi-The light filtering through the trees.

        I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. H.D.T.

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          #19
          I've worked in both, here high 90's F with 90% humidity feels way way worse than it was in Oklahoma and Kansas where highest I saw was 117 F with 20% humidity. In KS, and OK, it is "very hot" but not that uncomfortable, here in TN "hot" but very very uncomfortable.
          1983 GS1100E, 1983 CB1100F, 1991 GSX1100G, 1996 Kaw. ZL600 Eliminator, 1999 Bandit 1200S, 2005 Bandit 1200S, 2000 Kaw. ZRX 1100

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            #20
            I used to get home from Wall Street about 7 pm, then jump on the old Z1 and go for a ride sans shirt. I've heard of bare-chested cagers getting ticketed for indecent exposure, but never bikers. Those were the days.
            1982 GS1100E V&H "SS" exhaust, APE pods, 1150 oil cooler, 140 speedo, 99.3 rear wheel HP, black engine, '83 red

            2016 XL883L sigpic Two-tone blue and white. Almost 42 hp! Status: destroyed, now owned by the insurance company. The hole in my memory starts an hour before the accident and ends 24 hours after.

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              #21
              Originally posted by Rob S.
              I used to get home from Wall Street about 7 pm, then jump on the old Z1 and go for a ride sans shirt. I've heard of bare-chested cagers getting ticketed for indecent exposure, but never bikers. Those were the days.
              Bare-chested little Miss Minnie in her Golf Cabriolet was a different story, though.
              ---- Dave

              Only a dog knows why a motorcyclist sticks his head out of a car window

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                #22
                I'm not sure what's going on weather wise to bring such a prolong stretch of hot weather to a good part of the eastern US but the forecast is showing relief early to middle of next week. Then 10 day forecast is showing highs in the 70's coming up for Indianapolis of all places, IN AUGUST! I'm headed in that direction the day the cool weather arrives to get some major maintenance out of the way, hoping the weather stays sane to make it to a festival in southern Tennessee Labor Day weekend!

                1980 Yamaha XS1100G (Current bike)
                1982 GS450txz (former bike)
                LONG list of previous bikes not listed here.

                I identify as a man but according to the label on a box of Stauffers Baked Lasagne I'm actually a family of four

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                  #23
                  Originally posted by LAB3 View Post
                  I'm not sure what's going on weather wise to bring such a prolong stretch of hot weather to a good part of the eastern US but the forecast is showing relief early to middle of next week. Then 10 day forecast is showing highs in the 70's coming up for Indianapolis of all places, IN AUGUST! I'm headed in that direction the day the cool weather arrives to get some major maintenance out of the way, hoping the weather stays sane to make it to a festival in southern Tennessee Labor Day weekend!
                  Might try to get usede to it. Supposed to continue getting hotter for the next 50,000 years.
                  Komorebi-The light filtering through the trees.

                  I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. H.D.T.

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                    #24
                    Originally posted by Grimly View Post

                    Bare-chested little Miss Minnie in her Golf Cabriolet was a different story, though.
                    Maybe, maybe not. Minnie was so flat that had it not been for her nose, no one could tell if she was coming or going. heh
                    Komorebi-The light filtering through the trees.

                    I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. H.D.T.

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                      #25
                      Just looked up our hottest day on record, 1930 we got to 111 F. Kind'f glad I wasn't here to see it. just while reading hottest in the U.S. was in Death Valley, it hit 134 F in July of 1913. Hottest I've been in was 1979, 117 F in OK. & KS working the wheat harvest.
                      1983 GS1100E, 1983 CB1100F, 1991 GSX1100G, 1996 Kaw. ZL600 Eliminator, 1999 Bandit 1200S, 2005 Bandit 1200S, 2000 Kaw. ZRX 1100

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                        #26
                        Originally posted by earlfor View Post

                        Might try to get usede to it. Supposed to continue getting hotter for the next 50,000 years.
                        Well I'm not sure where you pulled that stat from but hey there'll be at least one complete Milankovich Cycle during that amount of time and my best guess is they'll be awfully glad we did mess up at some point.
                        1980 Yamaha XS1100G (Current bike)
                        1982 GS450txz (former bike)
                        LONG list of previous bikes not listed here.

                        I identify as a man but according to the label on a box of Stauffers Baked Lasagne I'm actually a family of four

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                          #27
                          Originally posted by LAB3 View Post

                          Well I'm not sure where you pulled that stat from but hey there'll be at least one complete Milankovich Cycle during that amount of time and my best guess is they'll be awfully glad we did mess up at some point.
                          Actually, silly me. I thought I remembered and posted the 50K. The reality is that it's 100k year cycle. Going to be getting hotter for a long time.
                          Komorebi-The light filtering through the trees.

                          I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. H.D.T.

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