tights

Alphabet

first day wearing them. fleece lined and lovely lovely lovely. it feels like i'm wearing an inside out teddy bear. winter gloves were a bit much though.

i tend to wear shorts and a top in all weathers because i hate getting too hot - just MTFU through the first 10 minutes and then i'm fine, but this is the absolute business.

i look a right tit though.

hatbeard

are they cycling specific or the missus'?

Wrath Rob

Tights for yesterday's 53 mile ride and the same again for this morning's commute. Its getting colder this week so the full bib tights might have to come out tomorrow!

On the "I look silly" point, I normally wear some baggies over the top to save the ladies blushes

rjsterry

Alphabet wrote:

first day wearing them. fleece lined and lovely lovely lovely. it feels like i'm wearing an inside out teddy bear. winter gloves were a bit much though.

i tend to wear shorts and a top in all weathers because i hate getting too hot - just MTFU through the first 10 minutes and then i'm fine, but this is the absolute business.

i look a right tit though.

Only if you're not on or next to your bike, surely.

Alphabet

well, they're from the missus (as a present), but proper cycling ones

Fairly sure i still look a tit with them on even when i'm on my bike

hatbeard

Alphabet wrote:

well, they're from the missus (as a present), but proper cycling ones

Fairly sure i still look a tit with them on even when i'm on my bike

I've started wearing some basic nike drifit ones when I go running and the suns not up yet/already gone down and i'd feel like a right berk if I was just walking about in them but if I'm running it's obvious to all and sundry what I'm up to so the embarassment is much less. I don't see how it would be any different with cycling.

Alphabet

context wise it's fine - it's obvious why i've got them on. but honestly, if you se someone in full daygow lycra whipping along on their carbon machine, is it possible to not think they look like a clown that's been through an over-hot spin cycle? no. it isn't.

Headhuunter

I always find this time of year awkward. 1 day it's sub 10C and I wear tights and jacket then another day it's 13C and I don't need either the tights or the jacket. Some days I feel like wearing full finger gloves, other days not...

Norky

hatbeard wrote:

are they cycling specific or the missus'?

I tried the wife's hosiery.

Warm enough, but the suspenders kept coming undone as I pedalled.

shouldbeinbed

wearing them for the first time in years. still waiting for the first Max Wall crack but I'm past caring what I look like bimbling into work.

wouldn't wear them for a trip to Tesco though

Headhuunter

shouldbeinbed wrote:

wearing them for the first time in years. still waiting for the first Max Wall crack but I'm past caring what I look like bimbling into work.

wouldn't wear them for a trip to Tesco though

I wear mine into Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury's, in the pub after work etc etc, I'm not bothering to change just to go into a supermarket! I wear mine under baggy shorts though, makes them a little less, erm, revealing...