It's tooo hot!!!!

[Thistle]

wow .. do any of you guys actually ride in (what i call) extreme heat. it's going to be 34 here today, and i just cant imagine riding in the middle of the day... but maybe it's ok if you're sunscreened up and have your camelbak?

i'll ride in 34 late in the afternoon, but i just cant imagine it in the middle of the day!

[Thistle]

sorry, i realise we are "girls"... just read that as i posted it and hoped no one is offended by the term "guys"... just an aussie term to encompass everyone

[caligurl]

*raises hand* i do! all the time in the summer! i ride up to ... hmmmmmm 53.3333333 degrees (tee hee.... i have a converter on my PDA!) but i'm not in australia... so do i count? )

[crazycanuck]

Cali!!! HOly Kapooeies!

HOW???? 53c!!! No freakin way man!!! How????

Do tell dear, do tell.

If it's above 35c I melt like a snowman..

c

[caligurl]

first and foremost... i believe it's cuz i'm acclimated! the majority of my weekday summer rides are in temps at or over 37.77778 (love my pda!)

it is usually dry here (again... cuz it's the desert).... so low humidity does help!

i'm absolutely miserable when temps get down to 10 (i feel like i'm talking a foreign language! tee hee) and i dress like a mummy!

i always say it really is what you are used to! folks "back east" who normally only ride in 80 degrees... errr.... 26.66667 degrees.... think 10 is fine.... but they have to remember that's a 30 degree (F) difference.... for me.... the 30 degree difference from my "norm" would be 21.11111 which i actually find very cool to ride in and will be in long sleeves and tights unless i'm climbing!

(and i've been whining for 2 days cuz we are suffering through VERY cold temps for socal and especially here in the desert! we got down to -6.66667 overnight! *GASP* and it's still only 13.88889 at 2:30 in the afternoon! BRRRRRRRR! but that's unusual for us... arctic freeze! lol! BRRRRRR)

[TerraNik]

wow .. do any of you guys actually ride in (what i call) extreme heat. it's going to be 34 here today, and i just cant imagine riding in the middle of the day... but maybe it's ok if you're sunscreened up and have your camelbak?

i'll ride in 34 late in the afternoon, but i just cant imagine it in the middle of the day!

I went riding (mtb) last weekend in the middle of the day... well, it started in the morning but ended up pretty late!! (3.5 hour ride). We got home and my partner and I had red arms, and white hands (gloves)... and now my weird tan is even more noticeable!!!

It was a scorcher and was terrible to ride in... The trees made a difference though - I wouldn't have been riding on the road that's for sure.

[crazycanuck]

It's 36c...Thinking about taking a walk along the beach this afternoon.

Off to melt..

c

[Trekhawk]

LOL - my mum rang and said they were headed for a scorcher. Keep cool and enjoy the beach.

This side of the world Im thinking about turning up the heating its a little chilly.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I went riding (mtb) last weekend in the middle of the day... well, it started in the morning but ended up pretty late!! (3.5 hour ride). We got home and my partner and I had red arms, and white hands (gloves)... and now my weird tan is even more noticeable!!!

It was a scorcher and was terrible to ride in... The trees made a difference though - I wouldn't have been riding on the road that's for sure.

That's funny....I went for a freezing ride last week at 23F degrees, and I came back with a red face shaped like a perfect circle where my balaclaca didn't cover...from the COLD.

[Thistle]

we had 41 degrees on fri ... hottest day in canberra since 1968! third hottest day on record.

i am not enjoying this part of summer

but we got a ride in this morning before it got too hot. am sitting in the office preparing for my interview tomorrow waiting for the temp to drop enough to open the windows and cool the house down

did i really complain about winter?

[RoadRaven]

well, its too hot over here too... at 8pm last night, after a day of racing, we were all melting in 30' dusk heat!

seems strange as we had snow on the near-by mountains just two days before christmas (we don't have snow where i live at christmas ... well, we didn't til this year!)

its 7am now and its already 25' - think it'll be another scorcher!

[Thistle]

commiserations RoadRaven

at least it cooled down overnight. it's actually quite nice right now, but ..... i can see in the sky is going to be another hot one.....

[mimitabby]

well you hot girls from the southern hemisphere, we're going bonkers here in the PNW from the extreme, un called for and unreasonable COLD!

but i don't want to be as hot as you are either.
take a cheap old tube sock, fill it with ice and put it around your neck!

saved some lives on our cascade 1200 ride last summer when it was 106 degrees, sorry, i don't know the conversion.

[RoadRaven]

I think 106' is about 38-39'

PHEW!!!
I don't think I would ride in that... not even if I could melt myself onto the bike!

[Trekhawk]

we had 41 degrees on fri ... hottest day in canberra since 1968! third hottest day on record.

i am not enjoying this part of summer

but we got a ride in this morning before it got too hot. am sitting in the office preparing for my interview tomorrow waiting for the temp to drop enough to open the windows and cool the house down

did i really complain about winter?

Yikes gotta love Canberra bl**dy hot in summer, freezing bl**dy cold in winter. It is great for cycling though so we will forgive it its weather. How is the water supply holding out?? Has the garden turned to dust yet??