118 degrees today

of course we started this personal challenge right in the middle of the hot season - our mission - to see how long we could go without driving. 32 days now (tho we had a commitment to visit parents in CA last weekend - carpooled with bro and sis).

so it's 118 degrees and i had an afternoon hair appt. i survived. DH is out grocery shopping right now (9 pm) since it's only 101.

Question: we are thinking about a trailer, single wheel, lightweight. can you pull a trailer behind a road bike? the ads say something about being ok for 700c tires with a full fender. we dont got no stinking fenders. right now we just use backpacks for shopping jaunts (i dont like the feel of a trunk on a rack behind me - throws the geometry of the bike way off). nashbar has a trailer 50% off but i think it only carries like 40 lbs. BOB Yak carries 70 lbs but is $300+.

all right, now i'm just babbling. where is DH? i'm hungry.

Time for a nice cool drink ! :)

Well done, pinkbike

Good for you!!! Your a stronger person than me. I know they say that it's a dry heat there, but there comes a point when heat is just heat!!!
That's too hot.
I am amazed at the things you gals can do sometimes.

Kudo's!!!!!!

think of the money you guys can save frying eggs on rocks outside!

TOO HOT!

It was 90 at 9:00 this morning. Good lord. I didn't get up early enough to go riding. So now I'm surfing...

I supposed you can gradually work up to riding in 100 degree heat. I've done it before by accident, but suffered badly. It seems that this is going to be a hot summer. I guess I should be glad I belong to a gym.

I feel for you, Pink Bike. The hottest I remember is 114. I think it was the day we moved back east!
No wonder I spent all my time in the gym when I lived in Tempe...

I do believe I would die in 118 degree heat! Kudos to all of you who live in that heat and still manage to ride! I won't tell you how hot it was when I got home from my ride this morning...I thought I was going to have heat stroke. But it wasn't even close to 100 so I think I need to stop complaining!

You know, I just can't wrap my brain around that kind of temperature. I live in an area, a bit higher elevation than alot of MA, and in a very rural area where I don't get the "urban heat island" effect and I never feel hot. Maybe I have poor circulation. Maybe one week in August might be oppressive.

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Originally Posted by PinkBike

of course we started this personal challenge right in the middle of the hot season - our mission - to see how long we could go without driving. 32 days now (tho we had a commitment to visit parents in CA last weekend - carpooled with bro and sis).

so it's 118 degrees and i had an afternoon hair appt. i survived. DH is out grocery shopping right now (9 pm) since it's only 101.

Question: we are thinking about a trailer, single wheel, lightweight. can you pull a trailer behind a road bike? the ads say something about being ok for 700c tires with a full fender. we dont got no stinking fenders. right now we just use backpacks for shopping jaunts (i dont like the feel of a trunk on a rack behind me - throws the geometry of the bike way off). nashbar has a trailer 50% off but i think it only carries like 40 lbs. BOB Yak carries 70 lbs but is $300+.

all right, now i'm just babbling. where is DH? i'm hungry.

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YIKES!!!
Even for an Aussie that is hot, hot, hot.
I am enjoying our cooler climate at the moment because I know it won't be long before the heat returns. Hopefully we won't be getting any 118 degree days though YIKES.

It's been crazy.... 114,118,113 and we are STILL selling bikes! I think we sold four the day it was 118???!!!!!
I guess us Phoenicians are a hardy bunch ehh??!!:confused::D:p;)
Either that or the heat has fried our brains!

There are over 100 reasons I'm glad I no longer live in the Valley of the Sun! :cool:

AmAZING!!! 118 degrees...

32 days without a car, huzzah!!!

Don't know nuthin' bout trailers and road bikes... gotta tell ya, it's easier to go without the car when you set up the bike stuff with that in mind.

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Holy moly! :eek: How far was the salon?? :p

Last year I logged in the most miles during the heatwave. I told my husband that should we ever become stranded somewhere to let me go for help because I am basically a camel on wheels.

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it's 118 degrees and i had an afternoon hair appt. i survived.

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yeah, but did your hair style? :eek::D

wow, that's HOT, especially this early in the season! Don't forget to replace those electrolytes - you're sweating profusely just standing still!