I know what you mean about a black car. We took out the RV and I made the mistake of leaving the stabilizer bars in the sun for a few hours. Forgot to bring my thermal gloves. Made for a fine time trying to get the bars back on. Finally used a pair of my socks and that was still hot! For the guys facing 120degF temperatures....paraphrasing McNair from 1776...Sweet Jesus!
Same here. My bags are filled with Gatorade! Do have one of the silvery emergency blanket things if things get too bad and just have to hunker down and wait on help. It's not gotten that bad, yet.I'm so glad we don't experience as much heat in Poland as you do in some North American areas. Yes, it is what we call "hot summer", that is, temperatures from and above 30 C (86 F). At least humidity is moderate: neither dry nor very humid.
Many cyclists in Poland turned out to be soft: they feel the heat is unbearable for them to ride out. A friend of mine who is a competing cyclist tends to ride out for his workout pretty early ("before breakfast"), so he might make 80 miles plus in four-and-half hour. Near to end of his rides, high temperature combined with his effort become unbearable, he says.
Night riding has suddenly become very popular here.
As for me and my riding buddies: nobody is softAs long as you ride, drink a lot, and take the benefit of wind cooling, riding is possible here, and we made two metric centuries on last weekend
Although we have it in Poland, too, I only buy our domestic product called OSHEE. Sugar-free version. I like the disposable bottles that fit any of my e-bikes except the e-MTB.
I have to drink the zero calorie stuff...my waistline mandates it.
Yes, I can attest that it is wicked buggy at higher elevations. Do not stop or you will be covered with flies.
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Yeah, those ice vests are new to me, but I can certainly see that they would help a lot. Especially if they are $50 to $100 rather than $500. And nobody is predicting cooler summers .these could help the rider but the battery is another story...
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Rain ain´t gonna help if it evaporates before it reaches the ground. Take a peek at the current
We need to bust up I-5 & plantNot to worry. If you are talking private or state land, those spindly sticks, which are planted closely on purpose, will get thinned in few years. Units are overplanted to ensure that required stocking/survival requirements are met. Then, what we call a precommercial thin will occur to thin the trees out to a density that is optimum for growth. Washington the State has some pretty strict rules about timber harvest. Also, the west side has had stand replacement fires about every 200 or 300 years--kind of like the big earthquake. Just because it is a temperate rain forest does not mean that it hasn't burned in the past. Also, the original people burned it to make clearings for hunting, berry growth, basket supplies, etc. There are some accounts of those escaping and burning more than planned.Rain ain´t gonna help if it evaporates before it reaches the ground. Take a peek at the current
U.S. Drought Monitor map & be afraid, ´be very afraid´. That giant red blob is creeping rapidly up
the great basin affecting not just agriculture in CA & AZ, but OR & WA as well. The U.N. has
just issued warnings that we are reaching the tipping point for climate change. You could be
looking at $2.50 for an apple as many fruit trees here are failing to produce much fruit. That´s
just for starters. Legally or otherwise, clear-cut logging has crippled my rainforest´s ability
to sustain watersheds. Some reforested areas were planted so densely that they are spindly dry
sticks, stunted, inches apart, fighting for every drop & bit of nourishment. If they ever catch fire,
they could make last fire season look like a hibachi.
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if you were younger that could be really fun.It was a very hot and humid day in the Midwest. So hot lately that the concrete trail I normally ride has buckled. I did make it 22 miles today.View attachment 91219
My son suggested I should jump my new Rail 5 through a ring of fire off of that ramp!
Yeah, you folks are breaking heat records. Not a good thing.
