Hot Weather Riding Survival Tip

[Nette]

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Put the bare Camelbak bottle into your jacket back armor pocket with the soft pad between you and the bottle, fill bottle with crushed ice, .

THAT is a brilliant suggestion. Thanks!!

[Scottyg09900C]

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The Camelbak thing works great, used this many times before, and if you wants some electrolytes to go with it, camelback has a great new product called exlixer, comes in many flavors, and you can put it in your camelbak bladder without it gtting all stickey like other powders will do. if your sweating alot you need electrolytes, sweat is water, sodium and the later, need to replace them both

[freerider]

Great advise

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[Kickstand1]

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Thanks, freerider, for bumping this old thread. I probably would never have stumbled on the Camelbak-in-the-armor-pocket idea otherwise, and that's a hell of an idea!

[DaBull]

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BUMP - cuz it getting close to rally travel time!

[DaBull]

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dabull and shameless1 are in the chat 903pm cst

[mitt]

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Great info Derry, I hope everyone heeds the warning, Hydrate or Die, as they say in the military!

1Up to SCOTTY... or two... Jus thought Mix salt and sugar in water for electrolytes Mess Sargent taught me that one...

[DaBull]

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i know traveling to and from the last couple of Rallys at the Dragon that i drank ALOT at each pit stop we made...it was incredible the amount of fluid I had going in with so little coming out

HYDRATE!!

[Jester]

I've been in charge of many Scout camps and I would always stress "Clear pee is the way to be".

[DaBull]

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bump for the rally riders............ VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!

[DaBull]

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Rally Bump...Hot out there..... Hydrate!

[DaBull]

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Rally riders - read this thread!!!

Hydrate!!!

[Racinfan101]

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And sadly this does not mean more beer...

[TS Tinker]

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Okay someone in-lighten a relative newbie. Given all the talk about the mid summer heat, why is the rally in mid July? Why not the 1st or 2nd week of June?

I have only been to one rally, Thunder in the Ozarks, last year. The rides and the people were absolutely the best. If you ever stopped mid day it was stupid hot, 95 deg and fairly high humidity.

Anything over 94deg and 60mph is blast furnace territory. David Aikens from the Texas chapter 1-25 asked me if they sponsored a rally would I participate. I told him not if it was in JULY!

Wisconsin in July, I am looking forward to it! Almost any where else, not so much.

[Easy Rider]

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The point about alcohol consumption is an important one as it makes dehydration MORE likely.

Another point of clarification also needs to be made I think.
The part about covering up and the example of the nomads in the desert.
Those folks wear very LOOSE fitting WHITE clothes usually, to block the sun but still allow some air circulation.
You MUST have some air circulation to allow for some sweat evaporation. Evaporation even at 100 degrees provides some cooling.
What you can NOT do is put on unvented black leathers.....on any other unvented covering. Some seem to interpret that advice to mean "seal yourself up in a bag" and that is exactly the wrong thing to do.