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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Mad Dogs n' Englishmen... 06/21/12 at 18:35:09 I guess the heat wave is all over the country... My yard plants aren't happy at all,.. had to do a couple hours out there to try and save them... This is full sun in my back yard... 108' in the shade... Nope,.. it ain't hanging over a BBQ grill... It's HOT!... ... (Ice cold beer time)...Stay cool my friends..
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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Mad Dogs n' Englishmen... Reply #1 - 06/21/12 at 18:37:01 I was putting a transmission in a unit on location in West Tx. I took a thermometer & put it in my toolbox. It looked a lot like that one, I had to lay rags over the tools I had out so I could pick them up w/o getting branded.
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verslagen1 YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline Where there's a will, I want to be in it. Posts: 28886 L.A. California Gender:	Re: Mad Dogs n' Englishmen... Reply #2 - 06/21/12 at 18:42:38 makes dinner real easy to cook, dutch oven out in the sun, betcha it'll get up to 180° at least.
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Reply #3 - 06/21/12 at 18:46:48

AZ is wonderful in the winter, but you can have the summers.

Have you ever gone down to the Titan II ICBM site south of town? You can tour the only site left intact after SALT. In the late 60's I was Team Chief of 395 Baker site at Vandenburg AFB. Saw lots-o-big-boomers, and have reached out and touched 9 megaton warheads. They called it MAD; mutually assured destruction. I called it crazy! Shocked

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Reply #4 - 06/21/12 at 22:02:07

360k+ wrote on 06/21/12 at 18:46:48:

AZ is wonderful in the winter, but you can have the summers.

Have you ever gone down to the Titan II ICBM site south of town? You can tour the only site left intact after SALT. In the late 60's I was Team Chief of 395 Baker site at Vandenburg AFB. Saw lots-o-big-boomers, and have reached out and touched 9 megaton warheads. They called it MAD; mutually assured destruction. I called it crazy! Shocked

Been there. Even scarier than the nuc missle subs that showed up at Rota, Spain, where I was stationed in the late 60s. Looking DOWN at a multiple-warhead delivery device, and contemplating the potential results of its use, is too much for my already-lurid imagination. We have a long way to go, but we've come a long, long way.

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thumperclone Serious Thumper Alliance Member Online PGR rider riding with respect Posts: 6068 Grand Junction Colorado Gender:	Re: Mad Dogs n' Englishmen... Reply #5 - 06/21/12 at 22:11:14 worked one summer in the 70s roof deckin in serria vista south of tucson got cooked.was brutal but was young and hungry one good thing was the cheap pitchers of margeritas and knocken off at 2.sometimes the rain would come in in rows, cool down, hot, cool down hot.
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Reply #6 - 06/21/12 at 23:14:42

Thumper,... Sierra Vista... I know it. Lunchtime, on the way to Bisbee or Tombstone...
Wide open country out there...

360,.. Nuke silo,.. never done the tour,.. but I know of it... Reminds me how hot things really could be...
NU-CUE-LURE HOT!... Grin

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PS... ever suck down a blueberry Slushie hot a 110' day?... a mad cycle of sweating,... nirvana..., brainfreeze..., repeat.... and you just can't stop...
It's like wearing an ice cube helmet in a lobster broiler,... and you know it's killing you, but you just can't take it off...
... and all you really want do,.. is pour it down yer' pants...
Ahhh,.. summer.... Huh

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mpescatori Serious Thumper Offline Romanum Thumperium Cavalco, yeaaah !!! Posts: 3547 Rome, Italy Gender:	Re: Mad Dogs n' Englishmen... Reply #7 - 06/22/12 at 00:20:40 Here in Roma, hot summers mean a few things... Hot, sticky days, with humidity as high as 80+% Sunbathing tourists... ATGATT means you COOK inside your gear at 120°F temperatures... So it's mostly NOGAAT (No gear at any time Or "Happy golucky beachbound families... Or the odd leatherclad beauty
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Reply #8 - 06/22/12 at 00:39:22

ATGATT really isn't that necessary in places where most crashes happen at 20mph. Heck, crashes are at such low speeds over there that the EU forced auto manufacturing to revise the distance between the hood and engine so when pedestrians get hit, the hood won't crumple into the engine and will allow the pedestrian to walk away unscathed. Here in the states? The speeds of crashes are so high that if a pedestrian gets hit, both of them are a write-off.

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LANCER Serious Thumper Alliance Member Offline Savage Beast Performance Parts Posts: 10666 Oklahoma Gender:	Re: Mad Dogs n' Englishmen... Reply #9 - 06/22/12 at 04:14:12 So who is this "leather clad" beauty you have on the back of your bike ? ? ? ? Hmmmm ? ? ? ? ? What are your intentions with this innocent young girl ? ? ? Now we know where your mind goes when you are just pondering things.
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arteacher Serious Thumper Offline Ride as if your naked and invisable! Posts: 2581 London ontario Gender:	Re: Mad Dogs n' Englishmen... Reply #10 - 06/22/12 at 05:42:54 I put my helmet in the freezer at the school I taught at yesterday. Kept me cool for most of the hour's ride home.
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Reply #11 - 06/22/12 at 06:20:25

arteacher wrote on 06/22/12 at 05:42:54:

I put my helmet in the freezer at the school I taught at yesterday. Kept me cool for most of the hour's ride home.

Heck, that is a darn good idea. A good day here in Charleston is 80-90% humidity and a high of 95. That would be a cool summer day. Wink

mpescatori, anytime you want to trade one hot sticky tourist trap for another I would love to come over and visit the relatives in Rome.

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Serowbot YaBB Moderator ModSquad Offline OK.... so what's the speed of dark? Posts: 28660 Tucson Az Gender:	Re: Mad Dogs n' Englishmen... Reply #12 - 06/22/12 at 09:27:41 This girl needs some sunscreen... ... and I'd like to volunteer to fly there and apply it... ...
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Reply #13 - 06/22/12 at 09:40:54

arteacher wrote on 06/22/12 at 05:42:54:

I put my helmet in the freezer at the school I taught at yesterday. Kept me cool for most of the hour's ride home.

I used to work for a Corp named Aerotherm. We made refrigerated helmets for Nascar and Indy type racing. Your head is your primary radiator of heat, so if you can keep a cool head (so to speak), you're more alert and your whole body feels better. Unfortunately, most helmet makers pay little attention to this, so on particularly hot days a helmet can downgrade its own safety factor.

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babyhog Serious Thumper Offline Find a Cure for Breast Cancer! NOW!! Posts: 3802 WV Gender:	Re: Mad Dogs n' Englishmen... Reply #14 - 06/22/12 at 10:00:16 I would be scared that putting my helmet in the freezer may degrade the inside of it somehow. Probably not, but it just don't sound right.
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