Heat Management: How to Keep Your Cool

It’s a gorgeous summer’s day. The sun shines, not a single cloud breaks the vast blue dome above you, and the temperature is perfect—at least for a day at the beach. But inside your riding leathers, you’re quickly starting to cook sous vide.

As a resident of the Sonoran Desert, I know painfully well how important keeping cool in high heat is. But doing so can be a real challenge when donning all your riding gear. We recently received a reader letter asking an excellent question—what should you do when you’re riding and temperatures start pushing triple digits?