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OK I know its a it warmer than usual but your bike won't explode or melt, brakes won't catch fire and explode due to pressure and other big bad things... Lots of places around the world have higher temps, bigger daily fluctuations and longer hot spells and they ride bikes there a lot.
but your bike won’t explode or melt, brakes won’t catch fire and explode due to pressure and other big bad things…
It's more my own functionality that worries me.
I've been riding in to work as per normal. I just slow down a bit and it's fine. We've no showers at work so not raising a sweat on the way helps. I then wait a few minutes, grab a coffee, etc. before getting changed. Towel down, baby wipes and a bit of deodorant and I'm fine - so those at the other end of the office tell me 🙂
The canopy of the woods is my sunscreen. I just spend more time in the woods on my mtb than on the roads
Towel down, baby wipes and a bit of deodorant and I’m fine – so those at the other end of the office tell me
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Well i, hike a biked Ben Macdui yesterday for the fabulous descent, a tad on the warm side, 31 degrees in Braemar, pretty obvious but hydration is key, luckily on the flog up Macdui through the boulder field there was a spring to hand.
Oh and factor fifty!
I can only do nightrides these days- once the kids are in bed
so its just perfect now, 18C, dont need to put the lights on until 10
Just make sure I have plenty of fluids
all the corners at woburn so blown out Im think a mud tyre might be a good shout!
OK I know its a it warmer than usual but your bike won’t explode or melt, brakes won’t catch fire and explode due to pressure and other big bad things… Lots of places around the world have higher temps, bigger daily fluctuations and longer hot spells and they ride bikes there a lot.
Ha ha, I have had a little laugh at posters worried about their bikes in this inhuman 26c heat. My Dad next door neighbour is currently riding to the Causeway in Bahrain, it's 42c today.
I wonder, conversely, if Canberra Riders are posting on STM asking if their bikes will freeze and explode like the T1000 in the terminator films because the temps have gone sub-zero for the first time in years?
Rode home from work on Wednesday afternoon (30 miles, offroad) and thought I would cook in the heat, but once I actually got a bit of pace on, I was surprised by how comfortable it was. In fact, I was more uncomfortable once I stopped, when I seemed to suffer from sweat incontinence!
Sunscreen, plenty of water, wine gums in the back pocket and pedal harder! 🙂
It really isn't that hot! Enjoy the sunshine and dry ground for a change.
People in the office are moaning about it being unbearable, the woman down the hall tried to tell me how "disgusting" it is that her daughter was made to do PE in such extreme heat...and another hasn't walked her dog in days because the pavements are so hot that the dog will burst into flames.
I reckon people in Aus or the middle east must be pissing themselves laughing right now.
Maybe my carbon frame won't melt until it reaches another 5degrees hotter but this weather is definitely playing havoc with my plus tyre pressures. ;d
I rode the South Downs Way on Wednesday. Lovely day and amazing views but did feel queezy from the heat from 10am to 6pm.
But the dust! It's still oozing out of my eyes now!
but this weather is definitely playing havoc with my plus tyre pressures. ;d
Don't ride the whole enchilada then... 3500m elevation difference and 45c temp change it will blow your mind!
Dear Dr Mike
Now that the trails will dry forever do I need to buy a compressor to use as a dust blaster-offer? If I blast using WARM AIR will I risk scouring the paint from my frame? Or should I brush - and if so, which kind of bristles?
thanks
Concerned of Tonbridge Wells
Riding is fine but the pedestrians/drivers all seem to be in a heat coma.
Never mind that, riding this morning one of the usual loamy type trails was like riding on concrete!!
Hike a biked up Helvellyn yesterday. It was ace. The rock strike just 50 metres descent awsy from thre summit and the resulting disintegration of my drivetrain (not so ace) had nothing to do with the heat. Although, had conditions been terrible, then I guess I may have been going slower and it might not have happened. So in fact, yes, the heat was entirely to blame 😜
Now that the trails will dry forever do I need to buy a compressor to use as a dust blaster-offer?
Bounce bike on floor lube and job done... Think I went 2 months just doing that, it was good 😉
Yesterday I had things to do, it was hotter than the surface of Mercury. Today I was going to go to the beach and there's cloud cover and a breeze. Ah well.
The rest of the year everyone complains about bike parts and kit designed by someone who only rides in California then when we get a bit of Californian weather it's a problem ¯\_(?)_/¯
@Rubber_Buccaneer - you're dead right, I'm starting to worry if I have too much tyre clearance
Just been reading about clothing colour for hot weather, according to ‘research’ the Black makes you hotter on a sunny day is a bit of a myth.
Just been reading about clothing colour for hot weather, according to ‘research’ the Black makes you hotter on a sunny day is a bit of a myth.
Nah, total myth - I was swathed all in black in the pub earlier, not even a nibble.