Motorcyclist dies from heat exposure as temperature reaches 128 in California's Death Valley

NBC ^ | JULY 07, 2024 | Christopher Weber and Margery A. Beck

[stevio]

Wonder what the MPGs are with all that?

[Lazamataz]

Sexy!

[Magnum44]

[TexasGator]

"I read a story where a mountain bike rider got dehydrated and heat stroke an electrolyte imbalance due to only having water to drink. "

[cymbeline]

* the picture *

I hated wearing a helmet. The wind pulls your head back.

When you’re on your bike and it’s really hot, it’s really really hot. Forced air heating.

[ConservativeMind]

I don’t know how the desert could quickly dehydrate those two.

[Repeat Offender]

“MPG?”…….more like GPM.

[SaxxonWoods]

Wasn’t that the everyday temperature during the Iraq War, and perhaps Afghanistan?

[Disambiguator]

I knew a guy in the Bay Area who used to go on a group ride to Death Valley, but always in February.

They would make the trip from Palo Alto to Death Valley in 4 hours.

[Disambiguator]

Baby got back (and front and side)!

[Robert DeLong]

🤣

Being named Death Valley should have been a clue.

I remember as a kid going through Death Valley, and my dad complaining that he thought we might run out of gas. Was sure we were going to die.

[steve86]

I think the fried clutch will take care of MPG problems.

[PeterPrinciple]

Iowa lawmakers passed a new legislation that means children can get a driver’s license at the age of 14 and a half.

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But no one can afford the insurance to let their kid drive. Just talked to a parent the other day.

[NWFree]

Guy on the news from the park with 131 degrees on the sign said it wa like climbing Mount Everest to go to the hottest place on earth so he pretty much died doing what he loved - being stupid

[truthkeeper]

I knew a man who traveled through Death Valley in the 1920s when there was only a dirt road going through it and there were graves on the side of the road.

I was stranded in Death Valley with BF over Labor Day weekend in 2009 when he took a wrong turn and just kept going. (Yes, very stubborn.)

Luckily for us it stayed at 92 degrees as it could easily have been so much hotter.

Totally desolate there. Eventually an off-roader looking for an adventure that weekend saw our tracks in the sand, followed them, and ending up towing out our SUV and us just before helicopters were being dispatched.

I was never so grateful to God in my life.

[PeterPrinciple]

Brother driving his 52 ford, had to run the heater inside the car to get the heat away from the motor. long trip.

[Revel]

The hottest temperature ever officially recorded on Earth was 134 F in July 1913 in Death Valley. Just for the record.

[Vaduz]

With a license insurance is the last thing a kid cares about but parents can have them covered because it’s a state law they can have a license.

[Robert DeLong]

Yeah, that must have been fun, NOT. Fortunately I was a kid, so I do not remember a lot about the trip, other than fearing we would run out of gas in Death Valley. Nothing else mattered. 🤣

[al baby]

They looked pre seared big time