Something I'd never considered...

Graeme said:

I was chatting to another cyclist last week and he mentioned something
about cycling here in Australia that I had never thought about. He said the
scariest thing about the possibility of getting hit by a car in the summer
wasn't the potential injuries from the impact (which may be minor if the
speed is low) but the fact that you may end up having to lie on the baking
hot ground and end up with serious burns.

Yet another reason my wife should let me buy that recumbent trike! 🙂

I read about a case in a ride across America where one rider succumbed
to the heat in Death Valley and ended up with his black lycra shorts
melting onto his skin while he lay unconcious on the road.

Tony

Tony Raven said:

I read about a case in a ride across America where one rider succumbed
to the heat in Death Valley and ended up with his black lycra shorts
melting onto his skin while he lay unconcious on the road.

Yuk! But I thought RAAM riders were pretty closely supported by their
vehicles.

Graeme said:

I was chatting to another cyclist last week and he mentioned something
about cycling here in Australia that I had never thought about. He said the
scariest thing about the possibility of getting hit by a car in the summer
wasn't the potential injuries from the impact (which may be minor if the
speed is low) but the fact that you may end up having to lie on the baking
hot ground and end up with serious burns.

Aaah, fantastic, brought back childhood memories of getting to and from
the local swimming pool running with my cousin from one patch of shade
on the footpath to the next with burning bare feet in between. Shoes?
Don't be silly! You don't get that in this country, although the roads
do start to melt in the high twenties and sunshine. I guess the UK uses
a different grade of asphalt to Oz.

--
Trevor Barton

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Yuk! But I thought RAAM riders were pretty closely supported by their
vehicles.

RAMM is Race Across America, so "a ride across America" is probably an entirely
different thing. RAAM is very well organised.

See

http://www.raceacrossamerica.org/

Cheers, helen s

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dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers said:

RAMM is Race Across America, so "a ride across America" is probably
an entirely different thing.

Oops. Missed the indefinite article.

dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers said:

RAMM is Race Across America, so "a ride across America" is probably an entirely
different thing. RAAM is very well organised.

Your interpretation is spot on. It was one of those supported rides not
RAMM.

Tony

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:56:18 +0100, Tony Raven <[email hidden]>

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the heat in Death Valley and ended up with his black lycra shorts
melting onto his skin while he lay unconcious on the road.

Branded for life with a pair of b*bsh*rts !

Quoted message said:

He said the scariest thing about the possibility of getting hit by a car

in the summer

Quoted message said:

wasn't the potential injuries from the impact (which may be minor if the
speed is low) but the fact that you may end up having to lie on the baking
hot ground and end up with serious burns.

Yet another reason my wife should let me buy that recumbent trike! 🙂

Never mind that! If you're unable to get up off the ground, it's even less
likely that you'll be able to run away from the Dingo's that come along for
a nibble!

"Tony Raven" wrote

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I read about a case in a ride across America where one rider succumbed
to the heat in Death Valley and ended up with his black lycra shorts
melting onto his skin while he lay unconcious on the road.

Tony

I recall a very similar story (possibly the same incident), a Dutch cyclist
crossing the Mojave Desert ended up hospitalized with heat stroke and nasty
burns from his Lycra clothing. Apparently he had no experience in travelling
in the desert, and no concept of how hot and dry it could get or how much
water he should bring. Lots of cross-USA cyclists travel at night to get
through the long stretches of desert without getting cooked by the sun.
--
mark

mark said:

"Tony Raven" wrote

Quoted message said:

I read about a case in a ride across America where one rider succumbed
to the heat in Death Valley and ended up with his black lycra shorts
melting onto his skin while he lay unconcious on the road.

Tony

I recall a very similar story (possibly the same incident), a Dutch cyclist
crossing the Mojave Desert ended up hospitalized with heat stroke and nasty
burns from his Lycra clothing. Apparently he had no experience in travelling
in the desert, and no concept of how hot and dry it could get or how much
water he should bring. Lots of cross-USA cyclists travel at night to get
through the long stretches of desert without getting cooked by the sun.

Me thinks we are thinking of the same story with the usual variations
that creep in with the telling

Tony

"Drinky" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Never mind that! If you're unable to get up off the ground, it's even
less likely that you'll be able to run away from the Dingo's that come
along for a nibble!

Nah, not around Perth, it's ants you need to worry about! Five minutes and
they'll have you stripped to the bone while a couple of their mates scurry
off with your bike clamped between their jaws. They're seriously big,
scarey buggers.

Graeme

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mark said:

"Tony Raven" wrote

Quoted message said:

I read about a case in a ride across America where one rider succumbed
to the heat in Death Valley and ended up with his black lycra shorts
melting onto his skin while he lay unconcious on the road.

Tony

One of my mates, purely in the cause of science, tried to see if he could
cook an egg on the bonnet of his (hire) car in Australia. It didn't cook the
egg at all, which duly slid off onto the ground. However it did put a
permanent mark in the paint. He then had a desperate hour with a can of
T-cut before he could return the car.

Hywel