How do you dry your Cycling gear when you get to work ?

Bodman

I have a shower at work, so I keep a set of clothes / shoes at work so I don't have to worry about carrying them with me when I commute.

However drying my cycling gear is more problematical. I have a radiator next to my desk which I cover with my gear. In the summer I hang them up near a door to dry in the air ( I do get majorily sweaty)

What does everyone else do?

Bodman

cee

chairs and radiators

Porgy

same as above.

It's rare that my gear is properly dried out by the time I go home - so I usually end up putting it on still damp at the end of the day.

redvee

Used radiators when I did the proper commute thing, ie cycling shorts/tights etc. When wet I used the radiatorsin the ladies loos and also the gents. With the Gore Tex jacket I used to hang it up on the mezz floor at the same height as the hot air blower but 15 foot away so it was in the airflow and dried out dureing the day. I checked on the clothing a couple of times a day and turned it too.

tardington

Backs of chairs!

It is just warm enough to do with out the old Nevis jacket in the mornings now. Much less sweat!

snooks

Bodman wrote:

What does everyone else do?

My jacket is on the back of my chair, my towel is on the (empty) seat next to me, my H***** is on my desk and my skull cap is on top of it (rinsed and drying off).

Towel dries out for the next time I want to use it, skull cap dries by the time I go home (Ooh I hate a soggy helmet)

Shorts and top are in my locker downstairs and will be a bit damp, but only till I get going then they warm up.

Socks and gloves don't get wet

Job done

Shadowduck

eVent jacket, Tres-Tex legs, Gore-Tex gloves, clingfilm over the helmet vents and overshoes.

Nothing gets wet that isn't waterproof!

DavidTQ

I find my cycling gear seems to be drying pretty decently hung up on chairs radiators and filing cabinet drawers. My shoes dont stand a chance though in a good soaking , I have a spare pair now to give them more time to dry... my bib tights are particularly fast drying recovering from moderate rain in an hour or two, only had them 3 months so not had a real down pour in them yet.

tardington

Shoes: if you stick rolled up kitchen towel, or even newspaper in them, that helps a lot! Turns out my mammy knew more that I thought...

breszh

We have a small store room with its own temperature control, now renamed the drying room.

Whack the temp up to 28 and within a couple of hours its all dry.

Just wish they'd fit showers here, strip washing in the disabled toilets isn't ideal.

redvee

Newspaper in shoes is good for work and also at home, when that has failed then out come sandwich bags over my socks inside the shoes if they are too wet, mild dampness I can live with. If the journey home is just as wet as the ride in then plastic bags are pointless. I've used so called waterproof socks and under tights they do seem to work, on bare legs they aren't no good as the water runs down your calves inside them, though I did seal them once or twice with sellotape!

secretsam

Top tip: if you've got lights set into the floor (like in our office), they are tops for drying stuff out

Other than that, round the back of the PC should be warm & windy

Or try putting them near a window (light) or aircon vent

pst88

If it's just damp from sweat I hang my jersey and shorts over my bike and by the end of the day it'll be fine to wear again. If it's soaked from rain then I'll put em on any radiator I can find.

StJon

I switch between sealskiz and goretex socks, which means I can put on wet shoes from the morning. I have force dried a pair of socks under the hand drier once ; )

SmellTheGlove

... so I have the shower room to myself, hang up the gear and it's all dry by the end of the day.
But it's just a matter of time till my fellow engineer Nils sees the light then he'll be back on his and we'll have to share the facilities.
"Did you move my shampoo.. well who was it then?... yak-yak-yak.. shaddap!!!"

Still at least we have a shower - if Boris or Ken made them mandatory for every new office building a few more people might wake up to London's two-wheel potential.

Gambatte

Small fan under the desk. With cycle specific clothes I find airflow rather than temp is the key to drying. Rotating whats being dried I can sort all the kit in 2-4 hours (talking rain wet, not sweat). Incase of emergencies I also keep a spare pair of lycra shorts and a base layer in the drawer.

John B

Keep spare gear at work as there is often a fight to grab radiator space amongst bicyclists after a good soaking. Don't half make the place pen and ink on wet days. Who loves the smell of wet lycra in the morning?

Belv

I work in an office with cold-blooded mammals (!) who need the heating upto 30 degrees in order to function. So hanging stuff up gets it dry in about 4 hours.

Gambatte - small fan under the desk? That's a hardcore drying strategy!

BentMikey

A fan is a very efficient way of drying kit, much better than heating since it uses far less energy, and is also far more effective.

attica

I always find the heat coming from my PC will dry most stuff quite quickly.

just keep rotating it all in front of the fan outlets under my desk

Wooliferkins

Radiators and draped over the boiler here. Nothing worse than forgetting to put the gloves on the boiler (yesterday) cold damp gloves from the sweaty commute not nice post work.

fossyant

Either the big radiator in the office, or hang my kit on hangers then point my 16" desk fan at them - dry in little over an hour. Just leave hanging all day !

Matteeboy

Work from home so just stick it all in the boiler room - hey presto, it's dry in a an hour or two!

hamboman

um.. I just ride home in wet gear. Half an hour in wet clothes doesn't usually prove fatal.

OldSeagul

I am the only one to cycle to work at my place, it being a car dealership, and there is a smallish walk in cupboard next to the changing room that has a boiler in it. I bought a extending shower rail pole thing and put it in the cupboard. I now hang my clothes on hangers from the pole and they are dry and warm by evening.

sadjack

I hang my stuff over the bike in our small server room. Its chilly in there but the aircon keeps the air circulating and most stuff dries as long as it is open to the air.

palinurus

My tights and jersey dry in the course of a day just hanging in the office, although if needed we have an entire lab heated to 25C so I could put it in there.

The gloves, cap, overshoes and other wet stuff go in one of the incubators in the lab. There's a choice of 30, 35 and 40C - there's usually more room in the 40 degree one.

If the shoes get wet then they get stuffed with paper towels, doesn't dry 'em by the end of the day but damp is better than completely sodden.

feaseyrider

normally i let mine dry in my truck which has a big sleeper unit and a good night heater to dry them out ....

Keiron Curtis

Sadly I don't have showering facilities at work, nor anywhere to properly dry out my gear, but we have a kitchen, where we cook food, so I turn on the oven, open up the door, and dry my clothes over chairs etc.. I work 12 hour shifts so usually, my gear is dry by the time I start for home.

ademort

I,m lucky,we have a large sea container where all our gear is stored it,s fitted with 2×3000watt heaters, so my stuff drys out in no time. I also have extra bike gear at work just in case. Greetings Ademort