Warm weather commuting

[bbjumper]

[QUOTE=mrbill5491;20 I can tolerate 100-105, higher then that I look for a place to wait and let it cool down in the evening.[/QUOTE]

I got that, some of the most beautiful rides I have had here have been in the early pre dawn hours during the summer. Out in the open desert at three am with a full moon, probably high 80's - low 90's waiting fur first light on an open highway, don't get any better than that.....

Cheers

[Rob S.]

Guess you haven't ridden in the southwest heat have ya. I've been riding in this heat now 34 years now. When it starts hitting the 105 degree mark, ain't gonna do it. Made the mistake of riding one day without checking for that days temps for the late afternoon. 118 degrees that day. I hit that temp right at its peak for the day say 3:30pm A 56 mile ride from Alamogordo through the White Sands Missile range to home turned into torture. No trees, no shade, no where to hide. Ask GSXRED he has been through twice now, though not with the heat yet lol.

Now that I'm pushing 60, not able to handle summer heat like I used too. I can tolerate 100-105, higher then that I look for a place to wait and let it cool down in the evening. When I was younger and dumber and still full of c...um never mind, heat? what heat? heat don't brother me any! What I mean by younger I was 29 when I started riding lol.

I'm pushing 60 also! This will be my first summer in 25 years on two wheels. Back in the '80's, when I was invincible, I'd come home from Wall Street and hop on my '73 Z1 with sneakers, a miniscule shirt, sometimes tiny shorts, and cruise at 75 on the highway.

Of course it rarely gets into triple digits here in NYC, but the reasons my Concours friend (who was also my riding buddy 'back in the day', we've known each other since birth) doesn't ride on hot days are his fairing, his radiator, and his clothes. Which brings me to my approaching conundrum.

No radiator or fairing on my '82 1100e, but what about clothes? The one time I've ridden recently in shorts and sneakers, I burned my leg on the exhaust (1-minute trip to the gas station).

[bbjumper]

ATGATT!

All it takes is once without to make you a believer. Even here in the desert it actually acts like an insulator against the heat, your gonna sweat but you were gonna do that anyway.

This is what I wear. 400 bucks total but a s**t ton cheaper than possible damage to your body otherwise.

http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/revit-airwave-jacket

http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/revit-airwave-pants

[mrbill5491]

ATGATT!

All it takes is once without to make you a believer. Even here in the desert it actually acts like an insulator against the heat, your gonna sweat but you were gonna do that anyway.

This is what I wear. 400 bucks total but a s**t ton cheaper than possible damage to your body otherwise.

http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/revit-airwave-jacket

http://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle/revit-airwave-pants

Yup, I wear my boots, heavy jeans(at least), jacket (or heavy demin long sleeve shirt), gloves and my full face helmet. I really need to get myself a good warm weather jacket. I feel a bit naked with the shirt at times lol.