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  1. We're having a heat wave here in the Pacific NorthWest. Normal summer
    temps are in the 70's to 80's. Yesterday and today are in the 90's.

    My work brought me down to Olympia, WA yesterday. I have been wanting to
    check out the Capitol State Forest so I packed my MUni for a post-work
    ride.

    The ride started off nice, over the first 1/3 mile the shade of the
    woods and a general drop to a creek was nice and cool. Very encouraging.

    The next 2/3 mile was predominantly up hill with about 1/2 walking
    (partly because of grade and partly to conserve engergy because of the
    heat). Once away from the stream the heat was stifling. After about a
    mile I made it to the trail head of a 2-mile loop. I was so hot I turned
    around and headed back to the car rather than committing to an
    additional 3 miles.

    There was just no cooling down, even after soaking the top of my head in
    the stream on the way back. The only real relief was air conditioning.

    On the drive home the weater report said it was 98 F in Olympia.

    When is it too hot to MUni for you?

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    "Only an idiot would try to ride a pointed stick with a wheel on the
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  2. To hot = 90+ deg. with 70+ % humidity or 85+ deg with 80+ % humidity.🙁
    It's a double sliding scale.

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    Brian C. Slater
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  3. well, it got to about 105 a few days ago... I wasn't MUniing, but I was
    street riding. It never gets too hot, as long as you can ride your uni
    into a creek.

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    Fuego - Ride to Ruin, and a Red Dawn!

    "Unicycling is more about the center of concentration than the center of
    balance."

    If you don't want us riding on your concrete, don't make it in such damn
    interesting shapes!

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  4. Yes, yes I am 😉
    Seriously, I haven't reached my limit yet... the closest I have to it is
    when the sweat starts dribbling onto my glasses... that annoys me... It
    helps that I wear a camelback, but it's too small... I've gone through
    it 3 times in an hour, and that's a lot of water!
    The downside is an hour after I stop riding, at which point I have to
    visit the bathroom every 20 minutes...

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  5. We put in a 4 hour Muni today (Sat. 25th) up in Santa Barbara and
    because Eric (Mango) and Jake had to drive up here (LA) from San Diego,
    we didn't meet up with the SB crew (Matt and Ayal) till noon. The first
    hour on the trail was blazing. Sweat was cascading off Mango's melon
    like he had a fire hose hidden in his helmet (black). Luckily the lower
    part of the trail went into partial shade or we might have perished.

    JL

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  6. Yeah, it's in the upper 90's here too. I try to go unicycling, but can
    never do it for more than an hour at once in this weather.

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    James_Potter - Rettop_Semaj

    -If there was an eleventh commandment, it is to be "thou shalt dip thy
    pizza, for it is, wicked."-
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  7. :p hahahahaha!!!!! you're funny! let me put it this way, i live about an
    hour inland from the central coast, and this year we've been lucky, cuz
    its been hangin around those nice cool temperatures, like 100*. it's
    usually about 10 to 15 degrees hotter. have fun with your "heat wave."

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  8. 40 degrees celcius is too hot to ride...unless there's something
    amazingly fun to be ridden.

    Andrew

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  9. Lol... Americans. Sometimes. You call 90 (32 celsius) hot? That'd be
    average temperature for us in summer. I'd call 104 hot (40 celsius). You
    should all come to Australia in summer time for a ride.

    --
    Robbie - Street Unicyclist

    And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every
    time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain.
    Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to
    drive? - Homer Simpson
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  10. UniBrier said:

    *We're having a heat wave here in the Pacific NorthWest. I was so hot
    I turned around and headed back to the car rather than committing to
    an additional 3 miles. There was just no cooling down. When is it too
    hot to MUni for you? *

    Let's hope this isn't foreshadowing a wimp-out during our ride tomorrow.
    It would be unfortunate if your daughters have to carry you back in
    from the far side of Yellow Lake. Just in case, I'll be sure to bring
    my digicam along for full documentation.

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    Tailgate at your own risk.....

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  11. UniBrier said:

    *We're having a heat wave here in the Pacific NorthWest. Normal summer
    temps are in the 70's to 80's. Yesterday and today are in the 90's.

    *


    no kidding, this is terrible...i havent touched my uni in 2 weeks. with
    all that armour on its just to hot and i know better than to ride
    without.

    i'm posting this from the Oregon coast. im on the yearly family camping
    trip. even here (close to Newport) on the beach its still above 85 F.
    any temp over 80 is to hot for me to muni. im going to be hating it at
    the Cali muni week-end if its as hot as i hear it can get there in
    Tohoe. hopfully we can bring some clouds with us.

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  12. gasmaster said:

    *:p hahahahaha!!!!! you're funny! let me put it this way, i live about
    an hour inland from the central coast, and this year we've been lucky,
    cuz its been hangin around those nice cool temperatures, like 100*.
    it's usually about 10 to 15 degrees hotter. have fun with your "heat
    wave." *

    Just wait until you go unicycling somewhere, and it's winter, and it's
    about 10 degrees Fahrenheit out. THEN WHO'LL BE LAUGHING?!!?!?!??:eek:

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    pizza, for it is, wicked."-
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  13. tomblackwood said:

    *Let's hope this isn't foreshadowing a wimp-out during our ride
    tomorrow. It would be unfortunate if your daughters have to carry you
    back in from the far side of Yellow Lake. Just in case, I'll be sure
    to bring my digicam along for full documentation. *


    Lest I be labeled as a Heat Weanie for the rest of my life I went on a
    15+ mile, 2 1/2 hour ride in 90+ F above Christina Lake in BC last
    summer ('Pics' (http://gallery.unicyclist.com/albur68)) on a Schwinn
    MUni, 140 cranx and 24x2.5 tire. The only time I could feel a sweat was
    at the rest stops, the rest of the time the sweat was going straight to
    vapor. This was downhill on a railroad grade. I was riding with two
    bicyclists.

    Add up hills, leg armour, amost triple digit temps, riding solo, and an
    unfamiliar trail and it was TOO HOT TO MUNI.

    Those of you acclimated to warmer climes: Add 20 degrees F to your
    summer average and see if that's hot. :p

    Pacific Northwest Heat Weanie,

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  14. My limit would probably be when its so hot that ive passed out and am
    not able to revive myself. MUni till i drop!!

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  15. James_Potter said:

    *

    Just wait until you go unicycling somewhere, and it's winter, and it's
    about 10 degrees Fahrenheit out. THEN WHO'LL BE LAUGHING?!!?!?!??:eek:
    *

    ME!!! it gets down to about 30* in winter!!!

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  16. Heat is definitely a relative thing. When it hits 90F and 90%+ humidity
    it is hot. The water just runs off you. I would love to ride in 90F in
    Phoenix with 30-40% humidity. It makes the temps seem a lot hotter when
    it is humid. In the Army they actually use a wet bulb index to
    determine when it is too hot to train. Here in the South, with the
    humidity and heat people drop out all the time. When you sweat and the
    air is so saturated that it doesn't evaporate, you don't get the benefit
    of the cooling effect sweating should provide.

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  17. Heat is definitely a relative thing. When it hits 90F and 90%+ humidity
    it is hot. The water just runs off you. I would love to ride in 90F in
    Phoenix with 30-40% humidity. It makes the temps seem a lot hotter when
    it is humid. In the Army they actually use a wet bulb index to
    determine when it is too hot to train. Here in the South, with the
    humidity and heat people drop out all the time. When you sweat and the
    air is so saturated that it doesn't evaporate, you don't get the benefit
    of the cooling effect sweating should provide.

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  18. Actually I love it when it's cooler. I'm prolly the only Australian that
    goes shorts and t-shirt when we go to England. All I'm saying is you
    guys gotta quit complaining, your 90 degrees days are prolly average or
    less than average for us in summer time :p Although I really hate it
    when it's hot in Australia, I still go for rides it's just... really
    really hot.

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  19. I was riding in 90 degree heat with humidity the other day, my heart was
    racing, I thought I was gonna pass out. I stopped after only a
    half-hour, but still had a headache for hours afterwards. Just not
    worth it for me.

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  20. Haha! Its only about 87f up in Montana 10 degrees? Ive Ridden in -43
    degrees Below Zero! so cold your tire goes flat.

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