Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Humidity

Holy crap, I'm in DC right now and it's like a sauna. How do you DC people ride and avoid sweating out your inards?

bwahhahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

reason #347 why i left the east coast.

ha im about to hop on my bike...in DC...oof

Wow, the weather in DC is almost exactly the same as the weather in St. Louis! We are a tiny bit hotter, and you are a tiny bit more humid, but its only a few percentage points off.

Speaking of which, time to hop on my bike and ride home from work. :(

peace,
sam

its foggy here... as usual.

i love fog :)

its foggy here... as usual.


it's warm and sunny in the mission :D

I love how this DC thread turned into a SF thread !!

Hope you are enjoying DC Judah.

Anyone want to go for a ride and eat at Herbivore this weekend? i am CRAVING a veggie burger.

bwahhahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!

reason #347 why i left the east coast.

Ditto. The east coast is hell is summer (and winter). Life is too short to be that miserable as you flee the stifling air and go from air conditioning to air conditioning and try to plan your day around when you can ride w/o coming back sweltering and dripping sweat. The west is best. :)

Holy crap, I'm in DC right now and it's like a sauna. How do you DC people ride and avoid sweating out your inards?
Derailleurs.

I love how this DC thread turned into a SF thread !!

Hope you are enjoying DC Judah.

Anyone want to go for a ride and eat at Herbivore this weekend? i am CRAVING a veggie burger.

i'd love to, but i'm gonna be in alaska running my legs off...

Dont tell me you are doing the marathon in the mountains :eek:

A trail marathon, in elevation no less?

Dont tell me you are doing the marathon in the mountains :eek:

A trail marathon, in elevation no less?

:) yeah, it's called crow pass crossing. there are a couple of river crossings, no support, and people usually see bears. i can't wait!

Mmm...east coast winters. And summers... Speaking of sweating out your innards. I lost almost 60 pounds riding in Boston humidity last summer. Hooray for air so thick you need a machete to get through it.

pshhh you guys think we have humidity in the north east!?!?!?! I feel bad for adamkell, I grew up in south florida... now THAT is humidity.

OK, so its now just after 7, about 2 hours after posting my initial post, and I just got home. :( It wasn't all commute, I had to run a few errands around town. But damn, I think I lost some serious weight, which is bad, since I only weigh about 120. ;)

I miss Colorado, since it was hot, but NEVER humid. And I miss Santa Cruz, where it was 72 degrees and blue sky 300 days out of the year.. :( Screw missouri summers.

peace,
sam

Ah the northeast humidity. Nothing like peddling uphill while its 95 degrees out and 90% moisture in the air. I cant wait for the fall thats perfect riding weather.

73 degrees and 48% humidity here today. Life is tough.

the best humidity cure in nyc is to get on the river. there is free kayaking at BPC, and great kayak tours at 23rd st and the Hudson. All the mucky, musty humidity smog just blows right off, plus it is usually about 5 degrees cooler. Im trying to work out a new triathalon: riding fixed, kayaking, and.... (so far all i can come up with is eating burgers, cuz i get hungry from the first two)

Holy crap, I'm in DC right now and it's like a sauna. How do you DC people ride and avoid sweating out your inards?

We're tougher than you. :p

Its unusually nasty here this week. Always humid, but normally not this bad.

Mmm...east coast winters. And summers... Speaking of sweating out your innards. I lost almost 60 pounds riding in Boston humidity last summer. Hooray for air so thick you need a machete to get through it.
Holy ****!

Chicago = I'm sweating while sitting.

Judah, i think you're just accustomed to our nice weather here. -BTW-This is Dokushoka's bro.

yeah. in chicago it looked like downtown was on fire there was so much haze.

pshhh you guys think we have humidity in the north east!?!?!?! I feel bad for adamkell, I grew up in south florida... now THAT is humidity.

It's true. Everyone else if just whining.

But if you have to suffer the Florida humidity, Gainesville's a decent place to do it. People start to get pretty crusty around here but it's accepted (at least in my dirty circle of friends).....no, almost expected.

Embrace The Heat.

(I've developed this positive outlook because I have to be here; post-graduation, I'm out. I hear SF is nice.)

I love me some serious weather. Sweat it out or shiver through, whatever. It's all good. What's life without variety? I get a perverse kind of glee when I look at ye olde WeatherFox and see "Haze" because I know that I'm just gonna get out there and sweat it out. It's sort of like a sauna, very purifying.

Besides, I spent my youth in the midwest where it's hotter and humidererererrrereererrer.....

Yuck-o. Where did you live in the midwest?

I like saunas, but its because I can lay on the ground naked around other people (preferably women-folk) who are also naked. I'm not allowed to ride my bike naked, and there certainly aren't naked women folks around when I try... :( If there were, I'd be alot more down with the hot weather.

Speaking of which, thats why the extreme weather at burning man is totally acceptable.

peace,
sam

humid air is less dense than dry air (MW of water is 18 versus 29 for "air") so friction is reduced. it has been especially humid around here for a while and that is just fine with me - sweating is okay, healthy actually. later this summer i'll be down in north carolina, cape fear area, where i have seen the dew point get up to 80 °F. you kind of need to get your riding in before 7:00 am down there.

i love san francisco, but it is not my home.

There's nothing like coming out from an air conditioned office or house, into a wall of air. And then having to ride through it like your riding underwater. Its worse than wind. And oh so fun.

I'm from Atlanta, where I believe there is a motion at the mayor's office to change our nickname from "Hotlanta" to "Moistlanta."

sWords

Hm, catchy.

drink alot of water and wear a minimum of clothing, Judah. Besides, watching the drops of sweat fall from your forehead and hit your top tube is very entertaining:)

But if it weren't for the humidity i may have never gotten back into riding bikes... riding gets me no more sweaty than walking but riding has the supreme advantage of no swampass chafing. I'll take saddlesores of walking swampass chafe anyday... really saves money on the goldbond addiction

http://trayman.net/Images/Glasses/Gold%20Bond.jpg

Dude GoldBond is frickin' key. It's like altoids for your rocks.

Dude GoldBond is frickin' key. It's like altoids for your rocks.

y'all must be talking about this gold bond...

http://img.epinions.com/images/opti/30/9d/Gold_Bond_Triple_Action_Medicated_Body_Powder-resized200.jpg

But does the beer taste like the powder? is it as refreshing? and does anyone know the deal with the blue-green bottle kind?


Edit: PS: Gold bond is more like testicle-crack than nut-altoids... stuff's mad addictive

this goldbond powder sounds like east coast thing. How the hell is it addictive?

this goldbond powder sounds like east coast thing. How the hell is it addictive?
because you come to rely on it. You can't walk a block without that moisture and chafing so you go home and powder the rocks some more, you walk outside but by then its started again and you need more then you carry it in your cargo pocket for a quick back-alley touchup and so forth

obviously I'm exaggerating but on a more serious note, i feel like its like the nasal spray. Your body sort of forgets how to heal and combat swampass and chafing and you become physically dependant on goldbond to clear it up

We're tougher than you. :p

That's goddamn right! The one time I was in San Francisco it was January and something like 60 and these fools were walking around in heavy winter jackets!

I'm just kidding, obviously; San Francisco is a great city and I would love to live there if the opportunity presented itself at some point.

How do you DC people ride and avoid sweating out your inards

keep drinking.
the more beers the better.

It's true. Everyone else if just whining.

But if you have to suffer the Florida humidity, Gainesville's a decent place to do it. People start to get pretty crusty around here but it's accepted (at least in my dirty circle of friends).....no, almost expected.

Embrace The Heat.

(I've developed this positive outlook because I have to be here; post-graduation, I'm out. I hear SF is nice.)

there's so much bs in this thread...

10yrs of riding in louisiana taught me one thing about humidity....

it sucks....

i used to tell myself it wasn't bad either, and i hate that crusty feeling....

gold bond is nationwide. i use it to dust my tubes before installing them in my tires. And for other stuff.

the best humidity cure in nyc is to get on the river. there is free kayaking at BPC, and great kayak tours at 23rd st and the Hudson. All the mucky, musty humidity smog just blows right off, plus it is usually about 5 degrees cooler. Im trying to work out a new triathalon: riding fixed, kayaking, and.... (so far all i can come up with is eating burgers, cuz i get hungry from the first two)

Throw in some West Side Highway miniature golf/batting cages, and I'm there.

gold bond is nationwide. i use it to dust my tubes before installing them in my tires. And for other stuff.

its also one of the items on my "These ideas are so simple, how did they pass europe by" list:

1: Window Screens
2: GOLD BOND
3: Clothes Dryers

We're tougher than you. :p

Ahhh so....

Although I have yet to see any hills out here :p ;)

You can't walk a block without that moisture and chafing so you go home and powder the rocks some more, you walk outside but by then its started again and you need more then you carry it in your cargo pocket for a quick back-alley touchup and so forth

lol. i can start my day now that i've had my morning belly laugh.

goldbond is the next hipster accessory.

Back home now and even with the fog it's still not as humid (good times) :p

Many thanks to the DC bike pirates for taking me out for some beers and copycat-grilled cheese 50/50.

Pour some water from your bottle on your head. It helps a LOT!