redirekib

Yeah, I posted here about riding in 95 degs, but if it hit 100 I'd be holding down a folding chair in my garage pulling cans of Labbat Blue out of a cooler of crushed ice...

brianallan

4 hour ride in 105° in Tucson, AZ in June

Machka 

All the years I lived in Manitoba, I got used to riding in 40°C temps ... no big deal.

Then I moved to Alberta where the high temperatures in the summer might reach about 27°C on three days in July. I've been here three summers, and last July was the hottest July I've experienced. I headed out for a century ride on a day where it reached 38° in the sun on the pavement (only 32° in the shade) ... and I actually DNF'd that century because of the heat. I couldn't believe it! The last time I had any trouble at all with the heat was my first year in Manitoba. Seems we can lose our adaptation to the heat quite quickly!

DataJunkie

It was regularly 110F-115F in my hometown as a kid. Heat is not a problem.
I took up cycling again in Denver and my hottest was 105F with 5% humidity.
That was a 20 mile ride that I found a tad annoying to stay hydrated during. That and it was a commute home after work while I was trying to get back in shape.

EffSizzle

98f on a toasty Seattle day this past July. 45 miles...lots of water...a wonderful sense of accomplishment when I got home.

CdCf

My hottest ride ever was early this summer. Half-hour time trial in 31°C/88°F with humidity around 95-97 %. I can't handle heat at all well. 25°C/77°F is about my upper comfort limit, and only after about a week or so of getting used to such high temps. Relative humidity is almost always 80 % or higher here. Typically 90 %. 98.6 % at this very moment.

If I could have my way, winter temps would never be lower than 10°C/50°F and summer temps would be 20°C/68°F and only occasionally a couple of degrees over.

mimis

37oC

Soil_Sampler

I try not to ride when it's 110+, but sometimes come back from a ride and it's closer to 120.

Lat:33.62N Lon:114.59W

DigitalRJH

I find it hard to believe that some of you are out there in 120-130 temps. I'm not saying I don't believe you, but that is beyond dangerously hot to the point of serious heat stroke in a very short matter of time.

cyclezealot

I once suffered heat exhaustion when it was over 90. I am not made for heat. I start getting a little ballistic when it is much over 85. Maybe I might go out if it is 87 and not humid. I'd rather do a night ride.

ken cummings

I spent years working with people working in high temp industrial situations. If people were doing steady hard work at 83 degrees Wet Bulb for full shifts they could manage; if they were young, fit, and thoroughly adapted to the heat. As soon as it climbed to 85 F the fatality rate jumped noticeably. There were emergency situations were people had to work at considerably higher temps. Your 120 - 130 degrees are often in very dry places where people can endure for longer periods where sweat evaporation cooled them. At higher temps people can exercise for, say, 15 minutes then go to a cool place to bring their core temps down. In a few places they wore ice jackets or air powered chillers, neither practical for biking. So it can be done.
Years ago Hugh Murphy organized a mid August night-time century ride in Death Valley. Started at 117 F and ended at 98 F just before sunrise. We used more then a ton of ice and 3 pallet loads of bottled water. 50 of the 100 starters finished the entire distance. A real pain was the 30 MPH headwind for the first half of the ride.

uberclkgtr

110 F here in Tucson for my 9-mile commute. But it's a dry heat. =]

buelito

I did the 'Nightmare Tour" (perimeter of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania) in 2005. Ride started at 4:30 am, and it was already into the 80's. Temperature topped out at 106-- the ride is just under 180 miles. It was bruttaly hot--

train safe-

Stallion

112 degrees F -- in the valley before having to climb the col de la madeleine in France last summer. I had just climbed the Glandon and Croix de Fur before that too. I ended up cycling nearly 100 miles that day and going through countless bottles of water. My bibs and jersey were stained with white salt residue. Good times

ko57

Back in '90, I was on Camelback road in Phoenix Arizona coming from the freeway toward 19th avenue. I was on my motorbike, I noticed one of those bank signs showed a temperature of 127 degrees-no kidding. Being from Louisiana orignally, the heat in Arizona is like putting your arm in a very hot oven-just HOT and DRY. I'm fair skinned, I can get sunburn after being outside in under 5 minutes unprotected in that heat.

In traffic, I'd feel the motorbike engine heat plus the road heat, not to mention exhaust heat from cars stopped at signal lights-hoooooooot! No barefootin' over there. I will always miss Phoenix, I hope to get back there to visit one day.

Kerry

cytoman

2006 Climb to Kaiser out of Clovis, Ca. After climbing almost 14,000 feet, the descent was into an oven on the valley floor. 115+ F. Very dry though. I felt the best on this part of the ride because I had trained in the heat, hydrated all week, and kept myself cool all day with a bandana full of ice around my neck. Other riders were getting sick from the heat. It literally felt like you road into the pizza oven.

DieselDan

100+ isn't unusual in the summer here.

ultraman6970

Vuelta a Chile (Tour of chile), 90 + to 100 + every single day. 120 + kms stages. Nice isn't?

orcanova

110 degrees/40 miles in Crawford TX a few years back, but the humidity was very low.

Over 100 degrees one day, did 85 miles, flats and mountains outside Talladega AL, back around 1998...very humid...drank tons of fluids, moderated my pace...totally spent at the end...

telebianchi

Yeah, this is just a normal summer ride. And while just the mention of a camel-bak will surely raise the ire of many, I could not imagine those rides without 70 oz of water on my back and 20 oz of gatorade in a bottle. On 50+ mile rides I have gone through 150 oz of water and over 40 oz of gatorade. But afterwards, I'm ready to mow the lawn after an hour in the AC over lunch.

I've never ridden in Phoenix, but I have done some of the local hikes (Camelback Mtn., Piestawa Peak) with temps around 105-107. That's some hot stuff but still nicer than DC area humidity.

I also one time did a casual ride with some friends. We knew it was hot but it wasn't until we were done that we saw the temps in the low 100's with heat index around 113. Maybe that lunch stop at a winery with a couple of glasses of chardonnay wasn't the best idea that day.

noisebeam

Yeah, 105F and dry is nice stuff. Once it gets down too 100-105, it actually feels cool after a summer of regular 115F. For my 9mi afternoon commute home once it is over 110F it 'feels' differently hot. 118F is hard to ignore.

Al

CrimsonKarter21

Since I live on the lake, it's always cooler, but the hottest was this summer and was somewhere in the realm of 100-105º, and stoplights and passing diesel trucks were awful.

kmac27

I love biking in the heat. During our heat wave it was about 100 for a week strait. I rode at least an hour each day. The hottest day was 105 f. I didn't even drink water, although I brought it I just don't get thirsty when I'm lost in a ride.

Cypress

Ugh... the trucks.


I played leap frog with a semi truck going up a pass once. Every 5 minutes, I would get enveloped in a 30-60 second long cloud of turbo'd engine heat slowly baking me as he would pass, then pull over half a mile ahead to let his truck cool.

CrimsonKarter21

Sounds like absolute hell. The only thing worse than that is some redneck who feels the need to drive next to you and yell at you with his For F-350 show truck with exhaust stacks a foot over your head.