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<blockquote data-quote="SacramentoMike" data-source="post: 1326418" data-attributes="member: 11508"><p>Sad fact, but when it's hot enough, more air doesn't help much. Take a hair dryer, set it on high, and aim it at your face. Cooling? Not much. I haven't ridden much in really high humidity, but around here, those cooling vests and the LD Comfort sleeves and cap are great.</p><p></p><p>And the last 150,000 miles I've done have ALL been on a Bead Rider. People don't believe they'll be comfortable because the beads are hard, but they just sink down into the seat at the points where your weight is on them, so you literally don't feel them. They do NOT press into your skin like people think they would. (Or like I suppose they would if you laid the thing out on a wooden chair.) But what they do do is let air flow under you so you're not sitting there in your sweat--at least not nearly as much. You don't <em>feel </em>the wind under you, but you'll feel the difference. It took me the first two or three days of a long trip to decide for sure, but ever since then, I would not ride without them. (BTW, in the rain, they keep you from sitting in a puddle of water. That's pretty nice too.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SacramentoMike, post: 1326418, member: 11508"] Sad fact, but when it's hot enough, more air doesn't help much. Take a hair dryer, set it on high, and aim it at your face. Cooling? Not much. I haven't ridden much in really high humidity, but around here, those cooling vests and the LD Comfort sleeves and cap are great. And the last 150,000 miles I've done have ALL been on a Bead Rider. People don't believe they'll be comfortable because the beads are hard, but they just sink down into the seat at the points where your weight is on them, so you literally don't feel them. They do NOT press into your skin like people think they would. (Or like I suppose they would if you laid the thing out on a wooden chair.) But what they do do is let air flow under you so you're not sitting there in your sweat--at least not nearly as much. You don't [I]feel [/I]the wind under you, but you'll feel the difference. It took me the first two or three days of a long trip to decide for sure, but ever since then, I would not ride without them. (BTW, in the rain, they keep you from sitting in a puddle of water. That's pretty nice too.) [/QUOTE]
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