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Question: What do you use to keep cool and refreshed on them hot summer days?
Water Back pack - 9 (10.3%)
Lots of mesh gear - 42 (48.3%)
Ride Squid Style - 8 (9.2%)
Other "please specify" - 16 (18.4%)
I Like Pancakes - 12 (13.8%)
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« Reply #20 on: August 20, 2009, 09:49:43 AM »
Oh, 7oxSin is gonna get in trouble with the squeemish crowd.  Lol
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« Reply #21 on: August 20, 2009, 12:26:50 PM »
under armor heat gear works very well with mesh gear or perferated leather. and also a camel pack.
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« Reply #22 on: August 20, 2009, 12:42:57 PM »
Hey!  What happened to the mutilated corpses!  Sad
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« Reply #23 on: August 20, 2009, 04:36:48 PM »
Quote from: shooplick on August 20, 2009, 12:26:50 PM

under armor heat gear works very well with mesh gear or perferated leather. and also a camel pack.


I thought Camel packs were addictive.
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« Reply #24 on: August 20, 2009, 05:45:18 PM »
white t-shirt and a black jacket is all it takes.
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« Reply #25 on: August 20, 2009, 08:43:03 PM »
...mesh and camelback.
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« Reply #26 on: August 20, 2009, 08:45:50 PM »
I just go really... REALLY... fast!
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« Reply #27 on: August 21, 2009, 10:47:39 AM »
I wear a mesh jacket and no overpants when it is hot.

Getting rid of the FJR is a HUGE help to staying comfortable. I ride a KLR now, which doesn't make much engine heat.
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« Reply #28 on: August 22, 2009, 10:23:54 PM »
Perf leather jacket, HT Air Overpants and sweat.

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« Reply #29 on: August 23, 2009, 01:09:02 AM »
Ride Scotland = staying cool isn't a problem  Cool
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« Reply #30 on: August 23, 2009, 02:09:00 AM »
mmmmmm pancakes........ Drool
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« Reply #31 on: August 23, 2009, 03:24:04 PM »
I keep cool by wearing those really short gym shorts, a wifebeater and flip flops.
Or course I always ride with protection as I only wear good Oakley sunglasses with my novelty chrome german type helmet.
On the really hot days, I get rid of the wifebeater. Smile
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« Reply #32 on: August 23, 2009, 06:35:41 PM »
Quote from: catskillcougar on August 23, 2009, 03:24:04 PM

I keep cool by wearing those really short gym shorts, a wifebeater and flip flops.
Or course I always ride with protection as I only wear good Oakley sunglasses with my novelty chrome german type helmet.
On the really hot days, I get rid of the wifebeater. Smile



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« Reply #33 on: August 23, 2009, 06:47:42 PM »
lol sounds like the village people. i keep thinking of homer giggling on the lawn mower making the construction workers fall of the scaffolding,
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« Reply #34 on: August 24, 2009, 11:42:22 AM »
Just found out it's cooler to wear a loin cloth instead of shorts.
I got a leather one for road rash protection.

AND!!!!  It really gets the ladies attention. Inlove
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« Reply #35 on: August 24, 2009, 11:58:07 AM »
Olympia mesh-tech pants, and Air transition jacket

Underarmor shirt, biking shorts, camelback loaded with ice. Refilling every few hours.

That initial slurp of water is warm from the camelback so I take a big swig and spit it out onto my chest and that serves as the evaporative cooling needed to keep my torso and legs cool

My buddies usually think I’m nuts for riding like that, as they’re in t’shirts..but it’s my ass if I go down…hot or not


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« Reply #36 on: August 26, 2009, 07:57:03 AM »
Drop the windshield fully down at low speeds.

Tee-shirt, blue jeans, halfshell brainbucket, biker shoes, mesh gloves, and shades. Extremely high
humidity in SC and merciless sun make it uncomfortable to go ATGATT; you can pass out waiting
on a red light with engine heat welling up inside the fairing and the asphalt growing soft beneath
your feet .. occasionally I wear the mesh Tourmaster air jacket, but mostly not during prime heat
at midday.

Frequent stops at gas stations for a G2 and a break in the A/C.
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