Many riders walked down to the line wearing cooling vests like the one pictured here worn by Nick Wey. The vests can be frozen or put in an ice chest before being worn and help to drop the body’s core temperature tremendously before the extreme heat of the race. One year ago, Geico Powersports/Honda’s Eli [...]

It was the summer of 1981 and I was a newly enlisted U.S. Army Military Police soldier. My basic combat training took place just outside Anniston, Ala., at a now retired Army base known as Ft. McClellan. It was above 100°F every single day for weeks straight, and that’s not even counting the “heat index” [...]