On Y'er Bike

katie.smith

Hi I'm a product design student, but also enjoy a good cycle! currently I'm thinking about ways to improve the commute to and from work on bike and was thinking about the idea of freshening up, i was hoping you guys would answer a few questions or even offer up your own probelms with your commute!

1. Age
2. Occupation
3. Times cycled per week
4. Distance cycled per day
5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes aswel
6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work
7. Do you like to just change when you arrive
8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive
9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the singal person public toilets
10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up

Thank you all so much for you help!

biondino

I'm impressed you have already picked up on the importance of remaining manly for the users of the board. Including the girls (honourable exception: Moonio)

Kieran_Burns

1. Age
42
2. Occupation
IT Dictator
3. Times cycled per week
5
4. Distance cycled per day
15 ish miles
5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes aswel
Manly 8)
6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work
I wish! (will be soon.. new building next month)
7. Do you like to just change when you arrive
NO!
8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive
At the moment yes. Talc is your friend
9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the singal person public toilets
No.
10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up
Yes. There would be a few people around here (work) who could be given free samples....

Jen J

1. Age - 31
2. Occupation - Financial Analyst
3. Times cycled per week - Every day
4. Distance cycled per day - weekdays 6ish, weekends 30-40
5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes aswel - health/fitness
6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work - at gym after swimming (near office). No shower facilities at work
7. Do you like to just change when you arrive - short commute so wear work clothes
8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive - perfume (but work for perfume company)
9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the singal person public toilets - no
10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up - probably don't need them

biondino

1. Age
34

2. Occupation
TV Agent

3. Times cycled per week
Does a round trip count as twice? Then approx 10.

4. Distance cycled per day
Average about 15 miles

5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes aswel
Assume you mean "mainly" - it's mainly to commute during week, and recreation/health on weekends.

6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work
No - I always wear clean clothes both on bike and when I get to work and although I sweat a bit, I find a quick wash in the handbasin is enough to keep me from getting smelly by the end of the day

7. Do you like to just change when you arrive
Yes, after freshening up a bit - see 6

8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive
Nope.

9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the singal person public toilets
If I were at a train station I wouldn't need to change!

10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up
Not really

lost_in_thought

1. Age: 25
2. Occupation: Commercial Real Estate
3. Times cycled per week: at least once a day
4. Distance cycled per day: weekday 14 miles, weekend 20-50.
5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes as well: combination of the three
6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work: most of the time, yes.
7. Do you like to just change when you arrive: only if there's no time.
8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive: nope.
9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the single person public toilets: no - don't need to.
10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up: don't need it really.

BUICK

Does anybody else find that if they are cycling regularly they don't tend to get smelly? I have a half-baked theory that if you have a reasonable diet/hydration and sweat through exercise regularly then that sweat is relatively 'pure' as you've already purged your body of nasties. It's just a theory based on self-observation. I'd had days back when I occasionally ate a pizza but not much else and did a lot of drinking, and 'recreational' had different associations altogether, where I might not do much of anything all day and would still smell rubbish... now I can go out on big long rides, dressed appropriately so that sweat is wicking away, get home and get changed into 'civvies' and go straight to work/play/the LBS and be fresh as a daisy.

A manly daisy, obviously.

Greg T

BUICK wrote:

Does anybody else find that if they are cycling regularly they don't tend to get smelly?

NO

I honk bad - very bad. I mean proper full on minging.

Still it means I don't get jostled in the lift.

biondino

If my body is clean and my clothes are clean I stay clean long enough to be able to go to bed that night with very little extra pong.

If any of the above does not start of clean, then things get exponentially worse.

Breathless Commuter Man

1. Age 37
2. Occupation Actuary
3. Times cycled per week Commute on average about 4 days a week, so 8 journeys.
4. Distance cycled per day 15-20 miles depending on route
5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes aswel; health
6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work yes
7. Do you like to just change when you arrive no
8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive No
9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the singal person public toilets Don't need to.
10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up Other than shower gel and shampoo etc, no.

janm399

1. Age
27
2. Occupation
Technology director
3. Times cycled per week
5 (and 5 home )
4. Distance cycled per day
20 - 80 km, depending on the weather and training day
5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes aswel
Mostly training that happens to take me to work
6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work
Yes
7. Do you like to just change when you arrive
Yuck! Never
8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive
After shower, yes.
9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the singal person public toilets
Not applicable to my situation -- I'm lucky to have gym at work.
10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up
Again, not applicable.

girv73

1. Age: 35
2. Occupation: Code Monkey (programmer)
3. Times cycled per week: 3 or 4
4. Distance cycled per day: weekday 18 miles (2x 9mi)
5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes as well: all three. ++manly if the weather is bad
6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work: yes - if you sweat as much as I do, a shower is essential !
7. Do you like to just change when you arrive: no (see 6)
8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive: nope, just some regular deodorant post-shower
9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the single person public toilets: if I needed to, yes, but my commute is all by bike so there is no need
10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up: if my commute was shorter, maybe such products would be useful. They would need to be cleansing and anti-bac I think. As it is though, after 9 miles, I arrive badly in need of a proper shower.

secretsam

1. Age - 39
2. Occupation - Healthcare Planning Consultant
3. Times cycled per week - 5 days per week when I can
4. Distance cycled per day - 10 miles total
5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes aswel - pure commute
6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work - not yet
EDIT THERE IS NO SHOWER AT MY WORK, IT'S NOT THAT I HAVE BAD PERSONAL HYGIENE!!!!
7. Do you like to just change when you arrive - yes
8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive -no but good idea
9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the singal person public toilets - err, possibly, this is heading off in an uncertain direction :oops:
10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up - are you saying I smell? (yes - preferably minimal carbon impact/waste eg re-usable?)

ride_whenever

1. 22
2. Grad Student/sports coach
3. 7
4. 10 miles
5. For work and to work, plus walking is rubbish
6. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
7. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
8.HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
9. No, but I would if i was going further
10. Always

Roon

1. Age - 34
2. Occupation - lab technician
3. Times cycled per week - 5
4. Distance cycled per day - 7 through the week, 0-40 at the weekend
5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes aswel - commute mid-week (buying the bike through cyclescheme was cheaper than the bus pass).
6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work - essential when you sweat like a horse.
7. Do you like to just change when you arrive - not an option, would be stinking within an hour.
8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive - just normal deodourant.
9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the singal person public toilets - N/A
10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up - What, like soap?

always_tyred

BUICK wrote:

Does anybody else find that if they are cycling regularly they don't tend to get smelly? I have a half-baked theory that if you have a reasonable diet/hydration and sweat through exercise regularly then that sweat is relatively 'pure' as you've already purged your body of nasties. It's just a theory based on self-observation. I'd had days back when I occasionally ate a pizza but not much else and did a lot of drinking, and 'recreational' had different associations altogether, where I might not do much of anything all day and would still smell rubbish... now I can go out on big long rides, dressed appropriately so that sweat is wicking away, get home and get changed into 'civvies' and go straight to work/play/the LBS and be fresh as a daisy.

A manly daisy, obviously.

The "not from concentrate" rule:
(a) shower-cycle = get away with it
(b) shower-cycle-[do something else]-cycle = antisocial odour

I reckon that being active means I spend less time than average in the same set of clothes, I have a lot of showers because I always seem to have just got off a bike or out of a boat, and my pits get a better than average airing 'cos I'm outside a lot.

scoobers

1. Age 41
2. Occupation Product Manager
3. Times cycled per week 5 days
4. Distance cycled per day 20 miles
5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes aswel commuting & fitness
6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work shower at local gym
7. Do you like to just change when you arrive no
8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive no
9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the singal person public toilets no
10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up no

AndyManc

Who would use a public shower :shock: ?

Even if you wore 6" thick flip flops and were protected with bubble wrap .



BTW , you lot love giving away personal details ... it's me me me , all the time

linsen

1. Age 35
2. Occupation celebrty lookalike
3. Times cycled per week 7 - 10
4. Distance cycled per day average 70 or so miles a week. Varies daily
5. Is it manly to commute or is it for recreation or health purposes aswel all the options. I think it's womanly to commute too....
6. Do you like to have a shower when you arrive at work Not like. Need
7. Do you like to just change when you arrive See no 6
8. Or do you like to use fragranced products i.e. body sprays or wipes when you arrive Only if I've run out of time completely
9. Would you use some form of public changing facility at train stations etc, similar to the singal person public toilets Don't need to and quite glad about that
10. Would you like a range of products aimed at freshening you up I think I have what I need

Wrath Rob

I'm refusing to take part as I have yet to see any proof that you're not Greg66 soliciting personal information and grooming members of this site for his own nefarious reasons :shock: