Friday 25 June 2010

Hot in the City....

On day 2 yesterday I thought it would be a good plan to ride around Manhattan. It wasn’t.

With record New York temperatures for this time of year, cars have it easy for one reason – air conditioning. On motorbikes, we rely on the wind from keeping moving to cool us down, but in Manhattan, with all of it’s traffic congestion, keeping moving is almost impossible, so in hot weather we fry. I certainly fried yesterday and it got to be so hot that I gave up and went back to the hotel to cool down. I was beginning to wonder why I didn’t see many bikes in NYC and now I know why!

I did however manage to get a short video of the ride....

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