Personal safety kit!!!

secretsam
secretsam Posts: 5,120
edited July 2009 in Commuting chat
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!!!

It's just a hill. Get over it.

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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    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.
  • SafeRider
    SafeRider Posts: 14
    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! :lol:
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    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?
  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    :lol::lol:
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    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
    SafeRider Posts: 14
    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!
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    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? :P
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  • SafeRider
    SafeRider Posts: 14
    prawny wrote:
    Is it dangerous? :P

    Ha! Nah, I'm just a little too fat to feel comfortable in it!
  • '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!
    Helmet - depends on the ride really
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    'special tan' avoidance

    wierdo.


    Look I don't want this effect, apart from the nails they're quite fetching :P

    hand.jpg
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    prawny wrote:


    Look I don't want this effect, apart from the nails they're quite fetching :P

    hand.jpg

    Whose hands are those?

    Does she have a very prominent adam's apple? Have you been dating her long?
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  • gtvlusso
    gtvlusso Posts: 5,112
    I thought this thread was: Personal Safety KILT......

    Mines a Buchanan!
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Greg T wrote:
    prawny wrote:


    Look I don't want this effect, apart from the nails they're quite fetching :P

    hand.jpg

    Whose hands are those?

    Does she have a very prominent adam's apple? Have you been dating her long?

    I got her from the internets, bulgarianbrides.com - mediterranean women as they once were (35,000 years ago)
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    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.

    What would Thora Hurd do?
  • That's a rubbish cycling tan. It doesn't even have any glovespots.

    THIS is the holy grail of cycling tans.

    197769134_b134ce2d5c.jpg
  • AndyManc
    AndyManc Posts: 1,393
    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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  • Agent57
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    That's a rubbish cycling tan. It doesn't even have any glovespots.

    THIS is the holy grail of cycling tans.

    197769134_b134ce2d5c.jpg?v=0

    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.
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  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    That's a rubbish cycling tan. It doesn't even have any glovespots.

    THIS is the holy grail of cycling tans.

    197769134_b134ce2d5c.jpg?v=0
    Full-fingers in summer? Crazy! Some really sweaty handed golf play maybe? :?