Personal safety kit!!!
secretsam
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Felt naked today, as I lost a mitt yesterday when the bike was moved when in work bike store :evil:
Doesn't feel right riding without mitts, don't feel safe :roll: - FYI, am one of those sad individuals who ride in full PPE - helmet, hi-viz and mitts :oops:
on the up side, I found my kinky mesh/fishnet hi-viz vest, so arrived somewhat less sweaty this morning!!!
Doesn't feel right riding without mitts, don't feel safe :roll: - FYI, am one of those sad individuals who ride in full PPE - helmet, hi-viz and mitts :oops:
on the up side, I found my kinky mesh/fishnet hi-viz vest, so arrived somewhat less sweaty this morning!!!
It's just a hill. Get over it.
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I rode without my mitts yesterday as an experiment, and my hands did get a tiny bit sore and a little bit sweaty, so I'm firmly in the mitss camp even in summer. As an addendum, I was worried my new Gore Retro Tech II mitts would be too hot when riding in the heat of the weekend, but even over long distances they did a superb job, not overheating and keeping my hands very comfy. Can thoroughly recommend.0
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I can ride without mitts/gloves but if I found myself without a helmet when out for whatever reason then I'd be pushing the bike back or going to a bike shop to buy another one. I made a very strict no helmet - no ride rule for myself about 10 years ago and now if I even sit on a bike without wearing a helmet it feels extremely uncomfortable, and there's no way at all I can ride without wearing one.
So yeah, I know how you feel except my safety/protection obsession is with helmets, not gloves!
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Does anyone else envisage Saferider as a character along the lines of the Green Cross Code man, only with a picture of a helmet on his chest and lycra shorts instead of superhero tights?0
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I've been taking my mitts off on really sunny days for 'special tan' avoidance the heels of my palms were a bit sore today. And I still haven't got a tan
I might go for a spray tan
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SafeRider wrote:biondino wrote:Does anyone else envisage Saferider as a character along the lines of the Green Cross Code man, only with a picture of a helmet on his chest and lycra shorts instead of superhero tights?
Hell no. I don't do lycra!
Is it dangerous? :PSaracen Tenet 3 - 2015 - Dead - Replaced with a Hack Frame
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'special tan' avoidance
wierdo.
FWIW - OP- aye, know how you feel - would never ride without mitts or sunnies on safety grounds. Plus I have no intention of brushing my tyres off without mitts on!
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singlespeedexplosif wrote:'special tan' avoidance
wierdo.
Look I don't want this effect, apart from the nails they're quite fetching :P
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prawny wrote:
Look I don't want this effect, apart from the nails they're quite fetching :P
Whose hands are those?
Does she have a very prominent adam's apple? Have you been dating her long?Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
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I thought this thread was: Personal Safety KILT......
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Greg T wrote:prawny wrote:
Look I don't want this effect, apart from the nails they're quite fetching :P
Whose hands are those?
Does she have a very prominent adam's apple? Have you been dating her long?
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prawny wrote:I got her from the internets, bulgarianbrides.com - mediterranean women as they once were (35,000 years ago)
Fully supportive.
I wish I'd known about "her" last night - I had a pig of a job getting a seized seatpost out of my frame - it looks like she could have mangled it out of there no dramas.Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.
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That's a rubbish cycling tan. It doesn't even have any glovespots.
THIS is the holy grail of cycling tans.
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SecretSam wrote:Felt naked today, as I lost a mitt yesterday when the bike was moved when in work bike store :evil:
Doesn't feel right riding without mitts, don't feel safe :roll: - FYI, am one of those sad individuals who ride in full PPE - helmet, hi-viz and mitts :oops:
on the up side, I found my kinky mesh/fishnet hi-viz vest, so arrived somewhat less sweaty this morning!!!
Just wear the one and say you are carrying out your own homage to wacko jacko :roll:
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singlespeedexplosif wrote:That's a rubbish cycling tan. It doesn't even have any glovespots.
THIS is the holy grail of cycling tans.
The gloves seem to go a long way up her wrists. Anyway, I can't see the tan lines at the first knuckle. So while you gain with the "hole" tan, you lose with the finger tan and I must deem it a false grail.0 -
Full-fingers in summer? Crazy! Some really sweaty handed golf play maybe? :?singlespeedexplosif wrote:That's a rubbish cycling tan. It doesn't even have any glovespots.
THIS is the holy grail of cycling tans.0
