Originally Posted by
GhostRider62
High heat and high humidity are a difficult combination and food/fuel/water get tricky.
I did 55-60 mile ride around Penang on my Bike Friday in brutal heat humidity, starting at the Shangrala in Batu beach and then going counter clockwise around the island with a few side trips to the little beach towns, I thought I was dead by the time I got to Georgetown. The only three things that sort of work for me in that environment. 1. Be skinny 2) Keep the pace way down 3) Go really lean on food and heavier on water.
My friends in Penang do the round-the-island ride often (heck, I think that's the only long distance route you can do on that island, either clockwise or anticlockwise). The heat can get pretty brutal around this time of the year, especially if you're caught out on the climb somewhere near the dam past 10am when it's starting to get real hot.