Ride with a Camelbak, and bring extra clothes. F the rules.
Official: Ask Kevin what I should wear on my ride today
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Ride with a Camelbak, and bring extra clothes. F the rules.
rick81721
Lothar
Yeah I was going to elaborate, talking about road rides. That works tho Kev would prolly keel over from the thought
Yeah, I assumed you were talking about road riding.
Also, I rolled my eyes a little when I read this
Kevin is very worried about what that person in the passing car thinks he looks like....I mean despite the fact that the passer by is saying:
Look at that fucking clown dressed in tights and riding a kids toy..HAHAHAHAHA what a goddam loser!
Mountain Bike Mike
Well-Known Member
What do they say when I'm riding with Kevin?
I'm sure they say something about how nice it is that two normal heterosexual males are dressed like super heroes and riding bicycles together.
That is what vest, arm and leg/knee warmers are for.I usually don't have that much of temp diff though.
I could give a shit what they think of what I am wearing, or if I blew a stop sign, taking the lane, etc. the averaging motoring public are idiots and of course they think we are clowns.
Steve Vai
Endurance Guy: Tolerates most of us.
I can tell you what I was wearing.
Castelli WS longsleeve base layer, HB LS Jersey, Patagonia NanoPuff, Specialized 686 Jacket. Castelli Nano tights, Specialized 686 winter bibs. Surly wool socks, 45NRTH Wolvhamers. Specialized Radiant Gloves, Specialized Pogies.
The newspaper with lead pages helped as well. Those Footon kits seem like something @UtahJoe would pick out.For decades the old newspaper-under-the-jersey trick works in a pinch for those mountaintop descents that just happen to have newsstands.
My god, I had forgotten how bad those those brown Footon-Servetto kits were.
qclabrat
Well-Known Member
I just realized I don't own a single set of knee warmers, can you recommend two in the moderate price range? Also how often do you wash these knee warmers? after every ride or just when they start to stank
The wool Defeet Kneekers are hands down the best knee warmers I have had. I had multiple pairs of castelli and specilized warmers and they all had issues falling down or bunching up at times. The defeet ones never move, never bunch and wool regulates your body temp better. Excellent price too. Wool absorbs smell more than synthetic clothing, so you dont have to wash them very often. Maybe every 5th ride?
Orange + Blue...I BLEED IT!
1speed
Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
If I am going to do a very long ride that takes up much of the day and doesn't involve looping back to my start point until the very end, how do I dress for temps that start in perhaps the high 40's in the early am and rise to approximately 70-80 degrees by mid-afternoon? Please note that it is imperative that I avoid unsightly bulges in my jersey pockets from shedded layers. Do I suck it up and freeze early on? Do I aim for a middle ground where I am never serving one extreme or the other but also never perfectly comfortable for any length of time? Do I maintain whatever I start out in, recognizing that my eventual funk will far outweigh the discomfort on my list of things I regret at the end of a ride? Or do I just budget for new clothes each time I do such a ride and toss my extra layers on the ground when I am done with them in a show of ugly wastefulness that would make a Russian billionaire nod his approval?
Start to pedal harder.
short sleeve jersey, with thin wool base layer, wool arm and knee warmers and a vest. Normal weight bib shorts. Wool socks. Nothing regulates body heat better than wool. If it temps are going to stay below 70, wool blend jersey with a mesh wool base layer.
