How are you coping with the heat?
- Thread starter gavroche
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[QUOTE 2554820, member: 259"]I find riding without gloves scary![/quote]
I've done it a few times when I forgot them, and definitely feels weird, I felt like my hands were naked!
Maybe I'll keep them, they did save my hands from road rash when I fell off last year.
I just stopped wearing my helmet too and that has taken some getting used to :/
I've done it a few times when I forgot them, and definitely feels weird, I felt like my hands were naked!
Maybe I'll keep them, they did save my hands from road rash when I fell off last year.
I just stopped wearing my helmet too and that has taken some getting used to :/
DavidBlaine
New Member
- Location
- Toronto, Canada
It's just as hot here in Toronto, Canada as it is in the UK at the moment. I personally love it except when I'm trying to sleep! Riding has been better for me also with my old knees really enjoying the warmth.
David
David
- Location
- Somewhere wet & hilly in NW England.
BBC News @ 10 tonight: "Britain is Burning". There's the odd bush fire I gather.
Raging Squirrel
Well-Known Member
- Location
- North West
I've just started cycling again this week, I've been going out between 11.30am and 1pm, usually when its hotest, in a pair of roubaix full length bib tights! I'm doing better than I thought I would being such a big bloke, I cant stand the heat at all but it doesnt seem to effect me when I'm out on the bike for some reason
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
I love cycling without all the cold weather paraphernalia but breathing in the warm air when climbing seems to make it a bit more difficult than when i'm breathing in the usual cold stuff? 
wiggydiggy
Legendary Member
Just hit 27c in my living room, 26c in the bedroom. No cycling today!
As soon as it stops going up I'll open the front south windows and get some airflow, might not cool down but it'll feel a bit better hopefully.
As soon as it stops going up I'll open the front south windows and get some airflow, might not cool down but it'll feel a bit better hopefully.
mustang1
Legendary Member
- Location
- London, UK
Bloody heck, yeah! Three went in my mouth on yesterday's ride before I spat them out.
roley poley
Veteran
- Location
- leeds
we are in the process of re-decorating and i am refusing to use the wallpaper steamer as i feel l would spontaneously combust ...it can wait
mustang1
Legendary Member
- Location
- London, UK
It just occured to me that gavroche was talking about 2013's heatwave!
wiggydiggy
Legendary Member
Love it. Day before yesterday went for a walk, after a few miles thought "maybe I should be brought along a bottle of water" and by 8 miles was thinking "next time I will bring along a bottle of water". Just love the warm weather.
Never in my life been too hot (excluding artificial heat sources), and that includes a fair time travelling in tropics. One day in India waiting for bus schedule to move on so decided to go look round local zoo so walked hotel to zoo and back and hotel manager asked how I got there in the heat and when I said I walked he swore and "nobody does that!".
Ian
Never in my life been too hot (excluding artificial heat sources), and that includes a fair time travelling in tropics. One day in India waiting for bus schedule to move on so decided to go look round local zoo so walked hotel to zoo and back and hotel manager asked how I got there in the heat and when I said I walked he swore and "nobody does that!".
Ian
wiggydiggy
Legendary Member
If I hadn't been working, yeah I'd have been outside. Ive run out of energy by the end of the day though.
Hottest I've experienced was an Indian Summer in Cyprus in Sept 2022. Got upto 35 or 36. The hottest day I chose to explore a big Roman ruin and was absolutely knackered at the end.
