You know it's too hot...

[Veronica]

when your Payday candy bar melts in your Bento box!

V.

[Geonz]

You should see what those cough drops did in my fanny pack... very sticky coins...

[GLC1968]

Payday would liquify in some of the heat I ride in!

I hate that my sport beans always become a big gooey mass, but I knew it was hot the day my Excedrin melted to the pill box!

[chickwhorips]

I hate that my sport beans always become a big gooey mass, but I knew it was hot the day my Excedrin melted to the pill box!

excedrin melts in heat? hmmm. things you find out every day.

[GLC1968]

excedrin melts in heat? hmmm. things you find out every day.

I should clarify...the excedrin was actually still solid... it was the coating that had melted into a gross glue-like substance! I've since switched my stash to uncoated tablets!

[bikerz]

... when you could brew a nice cup of tea with the water in your water bottle!

[Selkie]

I still think hot is better than too cold. I haven't forgotten the day last winter when I rode and my gatorade FROZE. I need to move to Phoenix or San Diego, I think!!!

[mimitabby]

Wow,
you think it's too cold in Virginia?!?
I'll take the cold anyday. you can always put more stuff on. but how much can you take off?

[Veronica]

... when you could brew a nice cup of tea with the water in your water bottle!

That was Sunday. Thom dumped water from his water bottle on me. It was like taking a hot shower.

V.

[chickwhorips]

I still think hot is better than too cold. I haven't forgotten the day last winter when I rode and my gatorade FROZE. I need to move to Phoenix or San Diego, I think!!!

i've gotten brain freeze from riding when its cold out. hurts but you still kinda have to laugh about it.

[bikerchick68]

ugh... here too! I'm IN San Diego and Saturday when I got home from a BLIND DATE ride it was 108 in the shade!!! I got so hot I started to get chills... fortunately at that point we were only a mile from the car... I don't think he had any idea how close I was to heat exhaustion/bonk...

and yeah, our water was HOT... just fyi... hot Cytomax tastes like cr@p!

Sunday I laid on the couch and did nothing. LOL

[Eden]

When one of the guys at the TT gets heatstroke and has to leave in an ambulance

One of my teammates computer had a temperature guage - she said it was measuring between 99 and 105 when we were out on course! And the guys went about an hour later than we did so it was even more broiling for them. Another guy passed out, crashed got back on his bike and still finished something like 6th!

[Running Mommy]

.....when you pull your bike into the house post ride and the tires smell like burning rubber...
Happens every ride these days for me!
And yeah bikerchick- hot cyto is the WORST!! Blechh!!!

Be careful all my non desert dwelling friends out there!! Heat illnesses can creep up on you QUICKLY!!! And yeah, you will know you had heat exhaustion when you feel like crud the next day..
Well, off to bed. The lights keep flashing and we are in the middle of a FIERCE lightning storm right now. The rain drops are HUGE too!!!
ciao bellas!
denise

[chickwhorips]

.....when you pull your bike into the house post ride and the tires smell like burning rubber...
Happens every ride these days for me!

are you sure its not because you are traveling at just about the speed of light?

[DebW]

.....when you pull your bike into the house post ride and the tires smell like burning rubber...
Happens every ride these days for me!
denise

I hear that rim glue can melt in those conditions, and criterium racers roll tires. I'm staying up north where my tires will stay firmly on my rims. I don't know how you do it, Denise, but more power to you.