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

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

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

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?

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

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.

keep drinking.
the more beers the better.

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.

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

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

Ahhh so....

Although I have yet to see any hills out here

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)

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!