> gee, it must be nice to live in the sort of climate where
> “sweaty back” is an optional characteristic when one’s
> been unicycling.
I am fortunate to now live in California. But we still sweat here, though I
grant you it’s probably less than in your undisclosed location. I think
humidity is a much bigger factor than heat in generating sweat. The
Sacramento area gets pretty hot, but our humidity stays fairly low.
> then again, if i minded being sweaty i’d be living somewhere else,
> right?
Moving out here was worth it for me, I love it here!
For MUni rides I use the Camelbak because it holds not only water, but a
bunch of the other stuff I need. And I know I’m going to be sweaty anyway.
But when I ride my bike to work (hey, it’s 8 miles and I don’t have all
day), I go for the water bottle. That way I have one less sweaty area when I
get here…
In article <mailman.1023985829.6883.rsu@unicycling.org>,
John Foss <john_foss@asinet.com> wrote:
)> gee, it must be nice to live in the sort of climate where
)> “sweaty back” is an optional characteristic when one’s
)> been unicycling.
)
)I am fortunate to now live in California. But we still sweat here, though I
)grant you it’s probably less than in your undisclosed location. I think
)humidity is a much bigger factor than heat in generating sweat. The
)Sacramento area gets pretty hot, but our humidity stays fairly low.
To be accurate, humidity is a factor in whether the sweat you produce
evaporates or not. You’ll produce plenty of sweat riding through a
desert but you’ll get wetter riding in a swamp.
-Tom
> To be accurate, humidity is a factor in whether the sweat you produce
> evaporates or not. You’ll produce plenty of sweat riding through a
> desert but you’ll get wetter riding in a swamp.
Especially a deep swamp!
I’m not sure about this, but I think humidity also makes you sweat more. We
sure sweated a lot in China, for instance. I don’t think I come close to
sweating that much in drier air. Even though it’s evaporating, I think I’d
notice that much fluid loss.
As far as I was aware you sweat to cool down by the action of evaporation so if the humidity is high your sweat won’t evaporate very well so you just get hotter and sweat more, not good. Personally I look like it’s been raining regardless of the weather conditions
Gary
BTW John, if they are giving out prizes for the most words posted to Rec.Sport.Unicycling I think you may win, how do you do it?
merely a sin of omission, john, and a bit of mental unicyclist.com-centricity, since that’s where i usually read all this. my location on unicyclist.com is listed as “sunny florida”, and that comes up in the info next to all my posts. [Bradenton: west coast, between Sarasota and Tampa for the curious]
so yes, the discussion that followed regarding bogs and swamps is apropriate for our humidity levels, hehe.
i am both a fairly ready sweat-er, as moderate temperatures and/or any level of exertion are enough to get me started [and goodness knows unicycling down here has enough of both of those].
> I’m not sure about this, but I think humidity also makes you sweat more. We
> sure sweated a lot in China, for instance. I don’t think I come close to
> sweating that much in drier air. Even though it’s evaporating, I think I’d
> notice that much fluid loss.
You are correct.
When the sweat is evaporating rapidly it’s doing its job - that is cooling
the body. In more humid conditions sweat doesn’t evaporate as fast, so it
doesn’t cool the body as well. Since the body still needs to cool, it
produces more sweat.
If you’d care for any more humidity we’ve got plenty to spare (Chicago). We
went out for a bike ride last night, and the fog was rolling in before we
got back. Not only is sweat not effective in fog, but it’s like breathing
soup.
> If you and your uni can handle it, you can attach all kinds of stuff.
> On longer rides of 20 plus miles, I prefer to not have weight on my
> back. Hence the unibago was born. See the pic on the EUT website at:
> http://tinyurl.com/dyd
> Plenty of room for a cold beer and some Clif bars.
>
> Stick with what works…
>
>
i must have looked at this for 5 min. how on earth do you mount that
thing??? cool, really cool
You realise this thread is old enough to buy beer in Denmark right?
Reminds me of the other day my boot was starting up a blister on my Achilles tendon. So I asked our medic for a blister band-aid. Long story short, all of them in his bag were from 2003, that is 3 years older than my son:)
And most of the 2002 portion of this thread was about sweating, not saddle bags! FWIW, I had one on my Excessory Cycle, a 24" Schwinn that I coated with bike accessories in 1981. If I remember correctly, the saddle bag was attached under the seat with a coat hanger, bent similarly to what JimT made, but not as pretty. The Excessory Cycle also had things like a pump, water bottle, fender, hood ornament (on the fender), reflectors, generator working a headlight, tail light and a pair of side lights, tire-driven speedometer, more reflectors, a “Raww Power” noise-making device built into the saddle bag, two bulb horns, one electric horn, battery operated turn signals, a rear rack with bear trap-style hold-down thingie, two bike flags, and half toe-clips.
I don’t have any recent pictures of it because the tire blew back in 2001 or so, and I had to take it almost completely apart to get the tire out (Schwinn frame). So I dismantled it completely, and it’s been a restoration “project” in a box since then…
