Steaming in Spain!

[XTreme]

We've now had two months non-stop heatwave......40C+ most days!

Hottest for 40 years apparently.......and there are numerous cases of people throughout the country dying of heatstroke.

The only way to get a ride is go out early.......and keep moving! So I went up the lakes.

Too hot to go on these.....

Water looks good as usual.....

View from the bridge! I've ridden along those trails at the bottom.....but obviously in more sensible temperatures.

The wall of the Dam!

And then back along the canal paths......amazed there's any water in them!

Here's a short vid!

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcCL8qrbC6o[/video]

 

[Kjell Lindberg]

We have heavy showers and 11 degrees C.
The ´Swedish "summer" has been a waist of time.

Although 40 degrees C is perhaps a Thad overkill...

 

[XTreme]

We have heavy showers and 11 degrees C.
The ´Swedish "summer" has been a waist of time.

Although 40 degrees C is perhaps a Thad overkill...

This is the current situation......5PM!

 

[Lutin]

We have heavy showers and 11 degrees C.
The ´Swedish "summer" has been a waist of time.

Not quite that bad here in Ireland - but it could be better.

This is the current situation......5PM!

Now that's just crazy! Not sure I could manage temperatures like that.

 

[XTreme]

We have heavy showers and 11 degrees C.
The ´Swedish "summer" has been a waist of time.

Not quite that bad here in Ireland - but it could be better.

This is the current situation......5PM!

Now that's just crazy! Not sure I could manage temperatures like that.

I've been here 10 years.....my British metabolism went a long time ago. So I could probably sustain it a lot better than the average Brit.

But you learn from experience that there's a point you shouldn't go beyond. For me that's around 40.

Anything more than that and you risk heatstroke, dehydration, blinding headaches, and loss of concentration. It gets dangerous!

Unless you're a Yank on FaceButt of course.......they can handle Death Valley at temps a lot higher than that. Allegedly!

 

[OhJ]

Bloody hot here in Iznajar. Been riding the dirt tracks around the lake. And Down to Malaga. No time for pics. The temp is reading 39/42 on the bike every time you dtop it's uncomfortable.
Doing my vest to count the mozac tiles on the bottom of the pool.
Bloody hot.

 

[austin]

It's reached 37 on the bikes thermometer every day for the past 5 days here in Idaho and Montana, but we are at over 6,000 feet. It's a bit cooler up the passes but I hear it's even hotter down on the plains. It's too hot to do anything except ride or hide in a dark cafe sipping ice water. Thunder forecast today.


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[Barftone]

Are you after sympathy?

 

[boboneleg]

Nice one Pete I must get down to your area sometime.

I was in Spain a couple of weeks ago, we were riding in the Bardenas Reales, it's a semi-desert in Navarre. It was 41c while we were there which was testing conditions to ride in sand

 

[OhJ]

41' on thursday riding up the portugues boarder upto just south of Salamancer. Then up to the picos it was 38/39 deg. Plenty of sun cream and come. We managed to ride between the huge fires in the area but our bikes where covered in ash in the morning.

 

[Philwhiskeydrinker]

41' on thursday riding up the portugues boarder upto just south of Salamancer. Then up to the picos it was 38/39 deg.
Plenty of sun cream and come.

Waaaaay too much info J!

 

[OhJ]

Freudalent moment Phil, no doubt the heat playing with my head. And getting soaked on the way home.
Some pictures of Sharrie and proof Ducati's can go 1600 miles with out a service.


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[Philwhiskeydrinker]

I forgot she had a Ducati. It looks like they have upped their game a bit.