What Have You Being Doing With Your Non-triumph Today?

Yep, mesh for sure, @learningtofly. In fact, I have several mesh riding jackets since I wear them so much of the year (and so each jacket matches each bike, of course). While I always have body armor in all of them, they're still much cooler than my textile and leather jackets.

We just got home from our Sunday ride about half an hour ago. I brought my cooling vest with me in anticipation of another toasty ride today, particularly on the way home when it would be close to noon. When we left the house to meet our buddies, I had the vest all prepped and stored in my saddlebag in an insulated bag. I really didn't need it on the way to our breakfast destination 50 miles away but I was certainly happy I put it on for the ride home! I checked the temperature when we got back to our house and it was much cooler than yesterday. Today it was "only" 102ºF rather than the 105ºF yesterday.

 

It sure doesn't look like it does, doesn't it, Steve? I parked on a side of the building that actually doesn't have any windows because it's where the service area is located. There's just a door and then some big garage doors further to the right. All of the windows are further on down the breezeway and also on the opposite side of the building from where I parked. There's lots of motorcycle only parking in front of the dealership....but precious little shade. I usually park in the designated parking but this time of the year I become what I call a "shade buzzard" and find whatever shade there is to be had.

 

I figured that might be the case Sandi
I could make a cheap joke about a brick wall being the best display option for Harleys but I won't

 

Ahh, go ahead and joke, Steve. You know you want to. And I can take it.

 

Helmut and I went to Donington for World Superbikes this weekend - the weather was pretty drizzly and miserable for travelling there and tent set up on the Friday but stayed dry at least on the Saturday and Sunday if not more than a little windy! My weekend got off to a great start when a very damp and bedraggled me spotted Maria Costello who was lovely and stopped for a photo .

We camped on the infield where there was a good atmosphere, our “neighbours” were nice and there was plenty of entertainment in the evenings when the racing had finished. It was the first time I had ever been to WSBK so it’s fair to say I was very enthusiastic and excited about ALL of it, watching the racing live was incredible and it was a pretty packed schedule for both days with all of the “extra” races in addition to the main Supersport and Superbike events which kept us more than entertained. We got home last night and have had a day’s leave today to get back down to earth with a bump…back to work tomorrow.

 

That looks like great fun, @Mrs Visor!!! Well, other than the weather. Thanks for sharing photos and a bit about your adventures.

 

Yes, send us some of your weather Sandi

 

Are you sure, Steve?! Here's where we're at currently along with out 10-day forecast. Thankfully the humidity is low (currently at 12%). Folks love to say "but it's a dry heat". Yep, and so is an oven.

 

Well, it would have cooled down a bit by the time it got here
To be fair we've had the hottest June since records began in 1884, apparently

 

Well, Steve, then we here in Arizona are in good company. But, yikes! The hottest since records began? That's concerning.

 

Well yes, but that means that the average temperature was only 60.44 Fahrenheit!
Not really what you would consider hot.

 

Commute for me on the Blade today; got to take the car tomorrow as I need to be smart rather than having helmet hair.

 

Um, no. Definitely NOT what I would consider hot!

It's currently 10:30am here in Arizona's Sonoran Desert. A little toasty. The skies are starting to get that "monsoon season" look though, so we're keeping fingers crossed that we'll get those refreshing, life-giving rains soon!

 

Haha, that's definitely warm!
Here's the rest of our forecast for today.

 

Beautiful temps, Steve! We're not even cooling down to those temperatures overnight right now, I'm afraid. Enjoy that beautiful weather!

 

Thanks Sandi - perfect temperature for riding I think

 

Commute on the Blade for me today, there was a lot of rain threatened by the skies but only got caught in a few spots here and there .

 

Another commute on the Blade, another few spots of rain .

 

Yikes! It's already Wednesday night and here I am reporting on what I did with my non-Triumph 3 days ago on our weekly Sunday breakfast ride (and not today like the thread title says)! Oh well, it's so hot here that sometimes time and days just all flow (or melt?) into each other.

Anyway, our group was small at six riders. We decided to go to a Mexican favorite of our, Mi Pueblito, in the town of Mammoth about 50 miles up the road. It was already toasty warm when we met at the local QuikTrip gas station to fill up. Mr. Sandi (Steve) had just gotten a new-to-him 2021 Harley Road Glide Special so was up for a bit longer ride.





The ride to Mammoth was, as usual, quite lovely. But when we arrived at Mi Pueblito, we were surprised to see how quiet it was. Everyone in the group on this day except for one are going to Sturgis a week from Saturday. And one guy who is going was not on the ride--visiting grandkids in Washington state.

When we arrived we saw that another group of motorcyclists had beaten us to the table. They, like we, had a diverse bunch of bikes.



Mi Pueblito also has an ice cream shop and a bakery. No ice cream for us this morning but I did have a delicious flour tortilla with my tamale/eggs/refried beans breakfast.



Here's Steve’s Road Glide Special. He traded his 2017 Street Glide for it about a week ago. His old bike had 40K miles on it and this new one has only 2500! He's very happy with this bike and is eager to ride it to the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in a week and a half. Today's ride was just shy of 100 miles so it was Steve's first "real" ride on the new bike.



It was probably about 85ºF when we met up at the QT this morning and here's what the temperatures were when we got home and pulled into the garage. I did pack my cooling vest and gave it a good soak at the restaurant before we mounted up after breakfast and headed home.

 

Yesterday (again, not today), Steve and I rode to Tucson H-D so he could get a few niggling issues ironed out with his new bike. I tagged along on El Gordo, my H-D Fat Boy.

But....Steve and our buddy, Russell, did the "shade tree mechanic" thing on Steve's bike from about 9am until early afternoon so we didn't get on the road to the dealership until 1:30pm. Not smart. This was the temperature when we got home from that little outing. Fortunately the dealership is only 12 miles from our house so most of the intervening two hours was indoors. The silver lining is we are certainly becoming acclimated to riding in the heat!