My 20 year old daughter and I took a trip to Flagstaff last August on the bikes. We have riden many many miles together but NEVER through this kind of heat. We had to be back in Phoenix by 6pm and the temperatures were well into the 100's and the heat from the pavement was making heat stroke a real possibility.
We stopped at nearly every gas station between Flagstaff and Phoenix and used the old water on the head trick to stay cool but we found that the further we went, the more heat we endured the more of our bodies needed the water treatment!
We stopped at a gas station about 30 miles out of Phoenix on I-17 to "cool off".
We were running late so didn't have a lot of time to waste and this gas station had bathrooms with showers, so we both ran in and soaked our entire clothed bodies in water, ran out and jumped on the bikes. We headed down the interstate, the traffic picked up the closer we got to Phoenix, however we noticed that the cars that seemed in such a hurry to pass us were slowing as they went by. Simultaneously we looked at each other to say "what the hell is going on", when we realized that we were both wearing very lightweight WHITE tank tops that were now soaked with water thus creating a wet t-shirt show on wheels...and we are both well endowed!!!
Fortunately the cloth dried with the heat and the once pair of obvious nips disappeared as well causing the traffic to return to normal speed!!!
CJ Clift
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