Do you wash before you go cycling/commuting?
DonDaddyD
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DonDaddyD wrote:I wash before biking
Do you mean to tell me that there are people who don't?
OK the above is an extract from another thread.
Honest up front question, do you wash/bath/shower before you go cycling/commuting/racing whatever?
If so, why? If not, why?
Personally, yes I do. Always.
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shower in the morning wake me up.
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for a shorter commute, that would depend on what was on the other end ie if i could shower or not.
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Why? I'm only going to get hot and sweaty within 5 minutes. It helps that we good showers at work, mind.
Same as the Covert Proboscine above, I often wear yesterdays socks etc.
My cycling kit is used for a week, there's just no point being clean under used kit, and no point cleaning kit that's going to get very sweaty very quickly...
if i did that as some one who overheats at the best of times, lets just say i'd clear a path along the road....
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But you're a girl. Girls shower like 8 times a day...
Seriously though, about the socks. Of all my clothes socks and my Y fronts (boxers and pants for all you cool cats) is what I change daily. Not changing socks regularly can cause athletes foot from the bacteria built up from sweat.
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shower after exercise.
to make sure my chamois doesn't get all smegged up and I don't give the bacteria any more sweat to feed on than I can help
This is why Minty censored Lard was invented.
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No point wearing new ones for just one hour. So yesterday's it is. I still get fresh ones daily, just delayed.
Some girls are also tomboys, but even the girliest girls I know think showering more than once a day is pretty excessive, and I'm already doing it twice...!
That means sometimes I do, but only if I feel really grubby before I set off - to the point of being uncomfortable, ie, after having a really sweaty night, for *ahem* whatever reason.
If I'm going out from 9am onwards then I'll have a shower before hand just to wake me up a bit.
As for shaving before I go into the office, I can get away with shaving about twice a week so that's not an issue, I just brush my teeth, lighten the load and get on the bike.
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to be honest, you all have a reasonable length to commute but i only have around 2.5miles so i don't really need a shower when i get into work.
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The Flying Scot : FCN 5
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OK, I'm gonna take one more stab at this. (For that hour you're exercising your sweating and building up a hell of a lot bacteria in the process.)
Me, I wear 1 pair of socks each day. Including the socks I commute in.
The next day I wear a new pair of socks and repeat the routine.
If you are wearing one pair of socks over two days (including commuting in said socks) then they're going to be more dirty than one pair of socks worn each day.
If I had a longer commute I would wear a pair too work and put on a new pair at work/for the commute home.
Each to their own.
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
I wear clean cycle jersey and bibshorts each day, they dry out at work, and I wear them home again, then they are washed. Socks are worn all day however, they don't get too bad. Proper cycle gear shouldn't smell in a day.
So don't ride more than once on same underwear/socks. & Do my best to dry out sweaty t-shirt/shorts before ride home...
+1!
A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
By the way, those under short cycling pants are nowhere near as comfy as proper lycra.
I sometimes also shower when I get home, well, I say sometimes, at least 3 times a week out of the 5 times a week I commute home! Oh, and when it's hot. Hot, in this instance, should be read as 'hotter than 20 degrees'.
As for the sock debate, I wear sandals. Problem solved!
I also don't re-wear anything that sits next to my skin, so shorts, jersey, sports bra. One day is enough. Yes, you're right, I do a lot of laundry and have a lot of cycling kit. And yes, it is probably wearing it out faster. I like to be clean, OK?
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