At those temperatures, though, you have the road to yourself. No trucks, no pedestrians, no dogs, no cattle!
Night riding is quite safe once you get a HID lamp fitted (preferably a spot lamp) which allow you to see the road in front of you even when looking into 12 sets of high beams. Once switched on, oncoming traffic aborts dangerous overtaking passes/other idiot maneuvers that would push you off the road, and tourist buses with 6  headlamps set on high beam even dip their lights! Oncoming traffic becomes sane and civilized! (All this has something to do with the "might is right" pecking order on our roads - something that can effectively blind others allows the bike to punch well above it's weight)
In our Yahoo group, we call them niceness makers but with just 10 days at hand, fitting them on a rented bike is not an option, so night travel is inadvisable.
Yogesh's advice would help you stay comfortable (well, sort of). The plains would be very hot.
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