Dealing with Warm Weather

[BrumJim]

Summer is on its way, and it won't be long before I ditch those trousers and start on the shorts. Then, hopefully, a long hot summer won't be far away (famous last words).
Whilst this does engender idyllic images of blue sky, cheery greetings (even in Birmingham) and munching on ice creams, it does mean that I will get to work hot and sweaty, and remain so even after a cold shower.

So what are your tips, sensible or preferably otherwise, for keeping cool on your morning (or evening) commute? Personally I like to keep my bike overnight in a chest freezer in the garage in summer, and rest my sweaty brow on the top tube during my commute as much as possible to extract heat from my head.

 

[Cameronmu917772]

Think the only way to avoid this is to head out at sun rise. Or pop a turbo trainer in that chest freezer of yours?

 

[Beebo]

I fill a large bowl with water and freeze it over night.
In the morning I use my ice sculpting tools to fashion an ice helmet which keeps my head cool. By the time I get to work it's melted.
Here's one I made earlier.

 

[AndyRM]

I ride one of these. You do need extra thick padding on your shorts though...

 

[Durian]

I fill a large bowl with water and freeze it over night.
In the morning I use my ice sculpting tools to fashion an ice helmet which keeps my head cool. By the time I get to work it's melted.
Here's one I made earlier.

The Yeti is real after all!!

 

[DrLex]

Early start & via pub* beer garden on the way back.





*with added skittle distraction on Mondays.

 

[stuee147]

If you fit a big fan on the frout of your bike it will keep you cool and can double as a peddall assist on the hills lol

 

[glenn forger]

When people ask me how to stay cool on a bike I tell them it's all about attitude.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

Put your water bottle in the freezer.

 

[KneesUp]

I already aim to arrive at work earlier if I go by bike because I carry on getting hotter for 10 minutes or so after I stop. It helps that I don't start until 10 though. Change of clothes and a load of wet wipes and lots of deodorant at work? Or go easy in the morning and then fast on the way home to make up for it?

 

[Sharky]

Commuting thru the summer months, often mean a coldish ride in and a hot ride home in the evening.

I use arm and/or leg warmers that can be taken off easily during the commute or for the ride home.
For a cold drink -freeze a water bottle over night and it will melt during the ride.

Let's hope we don't have too many hot days?

Cheers keith

 

[byegad]

I'm rarely too hot, even in the hottest English summer I can feel cold. But in France I've actually been too warm, once or twice. I'm fine on the move but stopping when the air temperature is in the high 30s I have been known to overheat. My solution was to keep moving, however slowly when no shade or cool building is available and hydrate, hydrate, hydrate! Blasting along (This is relative, in my case bimbling less slowly is more accurate.) only makes it worse when you stop.

 

[Hip Priest]

I have my domestique ride alongside me holding a fan.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I have my domestique ride alongside me holding a fan.

Can't your fans ride their own bikes?

Back on topic: I'm enjoying not being hot. It was a glorious 16°C Autumn day down under, and 4°C expected where I live, tonight. Looking forward to diving under the doona, and snuggling up!

 

[Kies]

ride slow and early on the way in, fast on the way home