More spry than a rutting buck I be.

Yeah Eddie, I'd like your take on using these for hot weather rides?

Sorry I haven't got back to you guys on this one sooner. A jumpsuit would be to stifling for me in the summer out here. After June we usually are looking at 115 + out here. You need a good flow through of air to get cooling by evaporation. It's unbelievable how fast your body temp will rise a 30 second to 1 minute stop light. I have some black light denim long sleeve shirts that I put on over a tank top. they button up the front so I can undo as many buttons as I want when I riding. I do like to get a little sweat going at stop lights and there is allot breezes going out here even when stopped to get air flow. Then when I start up the evaporation really gets going when the wind hits me as I'm riding. As the shirt flaps in the wind it feels like A/C. But truthfully out here the heat just doesn't let up. Also I always wear my riding pants and boots. Fortunately it is a dry heat for the most part so it feels good as long as your rolling. I also carry at least a gallon of water, I do mix powdered Gatorade in it for the electro-lights. I use the powered because I can control how much water to Gatorade I use. The bottled stuff is to sweet and doesn't give you enough water. I also like the powder because I can replenish the electro-lights as I loose them If I drink a bunch of bottled Gatorade then a bunch of water I'll wash the electro-light through also I only have to carry one bottle at a time. Truthfully I hate to admit this, but in the deep summer I ride sleeveless more than I'd like to say also truthfully I go by the 50% rule. I forget my helmet 50% of the time in the summer. My wife gets perturbed with me especially because when shes with me I always make her use my helmet. Now I have heard of this new summer mesh gear they have that's suppose to be pretty good but I haven't tried it. Now my oldest rear ended somebody and flew over the top of the car a landed on his head, he had a very good helmet on and had very minor injuries. He would have been dead without the helmet.

I'm with ya Eddie, I'm short sleeves and light everything i can think of in the heat - I don't handle the exteme heat well either the older I get. I used to be able to work construction in 90/90 back in NY - 90 degrees 90% humidity. Now - I get sick and puke if I overheat...
I know someone with the mesh gear and he swears by it, I'm going to get some this year myself.
As for the helmet - I've got a knuckle head but it still isn't as tough as concrete - I don't go topless anymore even if I can.
Hell I got a scuffed up knee thought my jeans and all i did was fall over standing still - I'm convinced the more gear I can tolerate the better I'll be. The heat will kill ya because it makes your brain stop working. Slower reaction times and poor decision skills.
I carry a water bottle - and use it to drink out of and wet my front down to aid cooling. Cotton gets wet and then cools quickly as it dries.

Hot weather gear? here I am leaving to go to work today and it is in the 25 or so, I will leave from work at about noon when it should be about 35, guess I will leave the hot gear behind this trip. Short trip about 3,500 miles in 13 day, looks like one storm on Thursday in Fl.
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Hi guys. Just wanted to say, I have a hard time relating to this topic... Just woke up to 2 inches of fresh snow...

Last time I saw 2 inches of snow, I rudely woke up in a tub of shaved ice as a practical joke.

Got to Virginia last night, leaving now at 5:30 35 degrees
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Hows the bike running as you're riding her down to Florida is she hitting on all cylinders?

everything doing good almost at 193,000, just checked in to the hotel right outside of the drag race museum in Ocala Fl. not bad 34 hours MA. to Ocala FL. cold for the first day then rain today from the bottom of GA. to Ocala