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What is the hootest temperature you have ridden in.

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About 103 deg F when I rode to Moorehead/Fargo to teach an MSF class last year.:-D
 
100 degrees going to the 2006 JoJo rally. I think that was the day I smoked my second RR and stator! I have re-installed the new RR behind the front forks and so far all is well. Better cooling that way.
 
While I've yet to experience anything over the century mark, my worst was a year and a half ago. It was mid to lower 90's and the 1100 decided to quit running a couple miles from home. My gear was/is an Icon black leather jacket. While it's comfy at those temps without the liner and moving, it's a killer at a stand-still.

I started pushing the bike towards the house and eventually got smart enough to take the jacket off. I was within a few blocks of home and it started up again. So, I had to put the jacket back on. Never been so miserable in all my life!

Brad bt
 
July 4th,2002. Panamint Springs in Death Valley. 125F. Left Trona at noon,soaked my shirt and pants at the Texaco and was dry as a chip before we hit the twisties outside of town. Was in a group ride to Virginia City. 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.
After they got there,she refused to go to the hospital 'cause she "had 4 more days of riding"! We put her in the chase truck and she was fine by the time we made Bishop. From that point forward,we kept 2 large coolers in the chase truck loaded with Gatorade,water and juices.
Tiny,if you and your truck hadn't been there,I don't know what we would have done!
RIP Brother
 
it had to be last summer when it was a good 105 up here in the high desert.one of the few times i rode with a helmet and a t-shirt.
 
Captk said:
Man, you've got to do something about your Avatar. From here you look just like Norman Gunston.

Still you've got to give it to the little Aussie bleeder, best impromptu 12 bar blues I've ever seen, him on Harp, Frank Zappa on accoustic guitar.
Dead set blew me away.
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brenno said:
Im p6ssng myself laughing myself Keith.I wanted to change from the boxing kangaroo to something Australiana.Only the Aussies will know who Norman is is suppose.They are prob sitting back thinking gee Brenno missed out in the looks department poor bastage

Brenno
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lol...this whole time I thought your avatar was Jed Clampett from The Beverly Hillbillies.

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The hottest day that I can remember was 107 as I crossed from Idaho into Washington. I stopped at the Honda shop in town. I must have looked a site for everyone there wanted to know if I was allright. Yes I was wearing full gear.
 
Hottest Temperature - +120 in Arizona Desert

Hottest Temperature - +120 in Arizona Desert

I took a trip from home (Michigan) out to the Painted Desert east of the Grand Canyon. My buddies and I were driving there during the middle of the day (not real smart). One of our friends drives a Harley and had a factory installed ambient air temp gage that was pegged at 125 F so I know it was at least 120. I had a gallon jug of water strapped to the seat and I refilled it whenever I stopped. I was drank almost 2 gallons that day with 1 potty stop. My helmet would be soaked but would be bone dry within 5 minutes of stopping. By the time I got home that helmet was TRASHED from the sweat. I wore a mesh jacket then and it worked great helping me from burning to a crisp!
 
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.
 
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. :)
 
Anybody here from Michigan??

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

Now THAT would be a hot trip.
 
rapidray said:
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.
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But, it was a "dry" heat, right? :-D
 
105 in Kansas

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.
 
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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.
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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.
 
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.
 
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!
 
: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.
 
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