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Long pants and long sleeve underarmor is a godsend both to stay cool and to get the damn leathers on and off. Oh, and dunking your head into your cooler full of ice and beer in between sessions helps a ton. Keep your head nice and cool helps out a lot.

Well working on my grandpa's farm definitely made me want to go to college and get an office job because it did suck. Made me appreciate our farmers and ranchers that put food in our grocery stores that much more. Also taught me about hard work and all that mumbo jumbo nonsense! lol!

I think a lot of where you grow up matters. As I said, I was working summers on a farm in south Texas when I was younger. If you think riding a mountain bike for a couple hours in summer heat and humidity is hot and sticky, try post holing fence lines, milking cows, and baling hay all day long 6 days a week all summer. As long as you do it every day, you get used to it. If you only do it once every couple weeks and spend the rest of your time in the AC, then you aren't acclimated and it's going to suck. I still do noon lunch rides in August and it's no big deal. Just need to hydrate.

This! 100% I grew up in San Antonio and spent summers working on my grandfather's dairy farm in south Texas so I'm used to the heat. Back in my early 20s I spent a winter in Winnipeg with family and oh my holy f*** never again. So now whenever I'm out riding in the summer and it's 100+ degrees and humid, I just think back to when I was up there and it was -30. It literally did not get above freezing for like 2 months straight. I will take the very hot summer/mild winter over the very cold winter/mild summer every day.

Exact same here. Same weight range, same pressure range. I love the inserts and yes, they will get you home with no air. I've done it twice now.

Sounds familiar! This was one of my first track days(TWS2.9 turn 10) and I had some borrowed leathers which didn't fit! Banged my knee up pretty good.

Looks about right. Worst thing about summer was shredding tires and more $$$ spent. I could generally get 2-3 full days out of one set of tires in the spring/fall when it was cooler but summer just tore them up.

Same here; I feel weird without one. Where did you ride? I mainly did my track days at Texas World and Cresson in Dallas and Houston. Been a few years and Texas World is closed now. Riding a mountain bike at noon in summer is nice and cool compared to doing a full day at the track in full leathers in August. Now that was hot! So hot that the pavement actually got greasy and slippery in the heat of the afternoon. I had to wear full long sleeve and long pants under armor underneath or I couldn't get the leathers off because they would stick to my bare skin.

I have a Skyline LR as well along with an Osprey Raptor 10. I find myself using the Skyline more in the heat and the Osprey more in the cooler weather. The Osprey is slightly more comfortable fit wise in the shoulders but hotter and less water by 500mL. The Skyline weight distribution is lower which I prefer, is cooler, and holds more water. While it still fits well, the shoulder straps aren't as nice as the Osprey. Both are great and you can't really go wrong with either but if I had to pick one it would be the Skyline. They are both on the more expensive side being in the $130-150 range.

Yeah that's the line I used Sunday; it's pretty easy and not nearly the puckering of just blasting off. Taking it easy moving forward after getting a plate put in on my broken clavicle back in October because I thought I was 20 again at the Walnut BMX park. I'm not 20 anymore evidently. I realized I like ice hockey better than mountain biking and broken bones from mountain biking keep me from playing hockey and that just isn't cool. So wheels on the ground from now on for me.

It wasn't much. I'm about a mile away and not even a 1/4 inch in my gauge. It rained for all of 4 minutes for me.

Side note, I was out yesterday afternoon riding SN and around the church area. Have y'all been making new trails other than the the jump line area? I ran across one yesterday that I didn't recognize and looked somewhat new. Strava called it roller coaster and it's the blue path in the image. It was really, really fun so good job to whoever created it recently. And if it's old, shame on me for never seeing it considering I've ridden those trails a lot. But I haven't been out since June as I broke an ankle playing hockey and then once that healed I broke my collarbone at the Walnut BMX park.

I doubt it. I live about a mile from the park and it poured for quite a while this morning and the sun didn't come out until late afternoon.

I see people jump onto Peddlers from the sidewalk where it crosses. Many going the wrong way. There are no chains there to know it's closed or that it's one way. At least none I've ever noticed.

Went out this afternoon and it was interesting. Had a plate put in to fix my collar bone 6 weeks ago so I've missed all the good weather riding lately as I'm just getting back out there. Rode Peddlers and Picnic and came across a guy and his girlfriend riding Picnic. No helmets and she was on a road bike. They were at least courteous and friendly and moved out of the way for me. He said it was her second day on the bike...

This. Although to be honest riding in the mud is a hell of a lot of fun. I won't do it on publicly maintained trails but I have a friend with some acreage with a creek out in Jonestown with his own personal ATV trails. He and I have been riding out there this week in the sloppy mud and it's been awesome. The ATV ruts make for some cool small features when it dries that makes dry riding fun too.

Anyone go out this evening? I'm assuming still too wet.

Usually in situations like today with super dry and then heavy rain, the stuff in the sun will usually be okay pretty quickly. It's the stuff in the shade that still might take a while. It'll still dry up faster but there will probably still be wet and muddy spots in gullies and very shady areas. Just be smart and check your tires. If you see mud sticking, wait another day.

Beautiful morning out at BC today. 65 degrees and no humidity when I got on the trails at 6:45. Only 72 when I was done at 8am. Almost perfect except for the leashless dog charging straight at me on Peddlers while the owner and his kid were 50 feet away. Harmless dog, just nearly made me crash. Guy just gave me a "Yeah, yeah" response when I told him that leashes were required out here. Yay. People.

This reminds me of one my far far far left wing fanatic friends. For background she thinks 100% of all income should be taxed and then evenly distributed among everyone. Very anti gun and thinks all should be banned included from police and military. We were talking about end of the world type stuff a while back and she of course likes to get her shots(pun intended) in about the guns I own. She's a gardener and actually has a really good small/medium garden/farm in east Austin. She has no guns and told me I should get rid of my guns and focus on gardening and farming so I can survive the apocalypse like her. I simply said why would I do that when I can simply take yours by force? I have guns, you don't. Easy peasy. Needless to say she wasn't happy with me. I love arguing with the extreme left and right folks. They are all crazy.

He's sick. My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Ferris pass out at 31 Flavors last night.

Yep. You should check Garmin's twitter feed. People are absolutely losing their minds because they can't upload their exercises immediately. It's funny and sad all at the same time.

I've been riding with my hockey buddies but that's about it. Usually three or four of us.

Haha! True. Especially when some of the mountain biking advice on the mountain biking forum is also questionable...