Adelaide Heatwave

[Paul Brooking]

A tad warm in Adelaide South Australia
This was at the traffic lights on the way home from work
Got to 51c a few hundred metres up the road

[wyno]

Had 33 in Geelong today and expecting 25 tomorrow. We usually get Adelaide's weather but not this time.

[reidy]

I was down there last week visiting my daughter and have previously lived in Adelaide.
I'm now back in South East QLD, the thermometer may read lower but the humidity sucks the life out of you.

I think I would prefer the Adelaide heat as a fan actually cools you own.

It looks like you need fuel, at least it is cheaper than up here.

Steve

[Chuck in Indiana]

Woah.. 50C *is* a mite warm.. even JJ would probably stay inside. 

[Rhodan]

Got to 51c a few hundred metres up the road

   I think the warmest I've seen is around 45 and that was more than I cared to see again.  Wow.

Any warm weather tips other than riding early/late and getting ventilated gear?

[RinkRat II]

    Back in 1990 they had to shut down Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix because the temp hit 122f and the air was too thin and hot for the jets to take off in. I now live in a cooler climate
 
      Paul B

[pete roper]

It got to just shy of 40*C here yesterday and they're promising us 42* today. I has a 1200 Sport in yesterday that the owner bought in at 9.00AM. I'm doing the valves this morning as it was still too hot at 2.30PM when I spat the dummy and buggered off to the pub! Today's job is a big service on a Stelvio NTX but at least the owner left it with me last week so I won't burn myself on anything I touch!

The workshop is in a brick and tin shed with a tin roof. It gets murderously hot in this sort of weather. I would of drunk three litres of water before mid day yesterday and didn't pee until mid afternoon! Gotta go get some of that electrolyte replacement stuff before I start work this morning. I'm getting too old for this shit.

Bleargh.

[beetle]

44° here yesterday. Expecting 44° again today. It was 36° at 10pm. I hate summer. 

[Paul Brooking]

I was down there last week visiting my daughter and have previously lived in Adelaide.
I'm now back in South East QLD, the thermometer may read lower but the humidity sucks the life out of you.

I think I would prefer the Adelaide heat as a fan actually cools you own.

It looks like you need fuel, at least it is cheaper than up here.

Steve

Unleaded is as low as$1.04 a litre at the moment
Even diesel is being discounted

[Huzo]

It looks like you need fuel

Steve

Need fuel...?
I'm no longer familiar with that concept...
Not an 8V perchance is it..

Hey, while we're on the topic of temperature...
The ambient temperature guage on my Norge is very accurate, I always check it against those big digital thermometers you see up on buildings and such.
Up under the instruments though there is a small plastic block connected to the loom and with a protruberance about the size and shape of an adult male nipple of all things.
Is that the probe ? It just hangs there and always has, should it plug into the back of the instrument cluster or something ?

[Paul Brooking]

  I think the warmest I've seen is around 45 and that was more than I cared to see again.  Wow.

Any warm weather tips other than riding early/late and getting ventilated gear?

I’ve survived a 56c day at Woomera in the South Australian Outback
Yesterday’s (and today’s) heat is very dry so a long sleeved t shirt under a BMW “Airflow” jacket and matching jeans is usually enough to keep cool on the bike. Traffic jams are just a matter of sit and sweat.

[guzzisteve]

Need fuel...?
I'm no longer familiar with that concept...
Not an 8V perchance is it..

Hey, while we're on the topic of temperature...
The ambient temperature guage on my Norge is very accurate, I always check it against those big digital thermometers you see up on buildings and such.
Up under the instruments though there is a small plastic block connected to the loom and with a protruberance about the size and shape of an adult male nipple of all things.
Is that the probe ? It just hangs there and always has, should it plug into the back of the instrument cluster or something ?

That lil male nipple is the probe & wire goes to dash plug

[Huzo]

That lil male nipple is the probe & wire goes to dash plug

Thank you Guzzisteve.
I couldn't see where it fitted, but will check again next time I'm in there for some reason.

[TimmyTheHog]

now it is def hot...

now bears the question...

Do you want hot & dry or do you want cold & wet (here is in Vancouver BC) 

[Huzo]

That lil male nipple is the probe & wire goes to dash plug

So does it just hang there like a spare appendage, or does the block fit into a recess as well as the plug ?

[Guzzidad]

    Huzo, on my 2012 it fits inside of the right fairing, held in place by a phillips sheet metal screw.

[Lannis]

    Back in 1990 they had to shut down Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix because the temp hit 122f and the air was too thin and hot for the jets to take off in. I now live in a cooler climate
 
      Paul B

I was on a B-737 in Phoenix that day, last stop before LAX, on my way to acceptance testing a piece of equipment we were buying in Rancho Cucamonga.   June 26th, 1990 it was.   We must have burned half a tank of fuel sitting on the runway waiting for the heat to go down so the plane could take off from that altitude (1,135 feet) at that temperature ...

Lannis

[Huzo]

    Huzo, on my 2012 it fits inside of the right fairing, held in place by a phillips sheet metal screw.

Mine is an old rattletrap '07, but I will investigate further.
Thank you..

[Bigtime]

It got to just shy of 40*C here yesterday and they're promising us 42* today. I has a 1200 Sport in yesterday that the owner bought in at 9.00AM. I'm doing the valves this morning as it was still too hot at 2.30PM when I spat the dummy and buggered off to the pub! Today's job is a big service on a Stelvio NTX but at least the owner left it with me last week so I won't burn myself on anything I touch!

The workshop is in a brick and tin shed with a tin roof. It gets murderously hot in this sort of weather. I would of drunk three litres of water before mid day yesterday and didn't pee until mid afternoon! Gotta go get some of that electrolyte replacement stuff before I start work this morning. I'm getting too old for this shit.

Bleargh.

    Pete, Totally understand the drinking tons of water and not having to pee. I'm an electrical lineman and doing energized work in rubber gloves and sleeves in the summer has the same effect. Drink a gallon of water and not pee all day. Winter time is a different story, having to pee ten times a day. A gallon of coffee probably has something to do with that.

[drbone641]

    Back in 1990 they had to shut down Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix because the temp hit 122f and the air was too thin and hot for the jets to take off in. I now live in a cooler climate
 
      Paul B

I was stuck there for two days. Operations called me at 2 am to head to the airport for takeoff at 530 am. It really wasn't that it was too hot for the jets to fly, it was that Boeing and Douglas wanted a couple of million for the takeoff data charts that went above 112. (I think that was the temp.)

[Huzo]

    Pete, Totally understand the drinking tons of water and not having to pee. I'm an electrical lineman and doing energized work in rubber gloves and sleeves in the summer has the same effect. Drink a gallon of water and not pee all day. Winter time is a different story, having to pee ten times a day. A gallon of coffee probably has something to do with that.

Not from Wichita perchance..?

[Ncdan]

44° here yesterday. Expecting 44° again today. It was 36° at 10pm. I hate summer. 

Brings back memories of us working on the Calvin last year at this same time. Hot as Haties there and cold as a witches tit here:)

[Muzz]

NZ getting that heatwave now.  Being surrounded by ocean we don't usually get as hot as Oz, but today was supposed to hit 28C (it's 31.8 at my keyboard) but tomorrow is supposed to hit 31C.  Prefer it somewhat cooler.

I bet Motomoda must be unbearable during heatwaves Pete.  Bad enough in the son's workshop.

[pete roper]

It's 37*C here at the moment. I knocked off after servicing and mapping a Griso and fixing up a bloke who's bike had been 'serviced' by a mob in Albion Park. Ever since when he took it out it blurted gearbox oil everywhere. Unsurprising really as it was a V7-II with a six speed box and they'd put at least a litre of oil in it.

Six speed takes 1/2 a litre tops.

[beetle]

Brief thunderstorm here has made the temperature plummet from 43 to 37! Oh frabjous day!

[oldbike54]

 We had several days of 50C in July of 2011 over here in the NE part of of Oklahoma . The 24 hour a day average for the month was almost 90 F , and the first week was a bit below the average , which meant the last 3 weeks were hell . When the low is 88 F at 5:AM , you know that the best course of action is to not go out 

 Dusty