So it's warm right?

Kieran_Burns

You're probably all in short-sleeved tops, fingerless gloves, shorts etc and STILL warm?

I was. After a mile I was sweating.

So could someone explain this to me?



Please note the full water-proof jacket, full gloves, leggings AND woolly hat under the helmet.

Dear God.

SimonAH

Almost every day I see a guy walking with a snooker cue case. His is ALWAYS dressed in full down jacket, thick wooly hat, winter gloves and snowboots.

Takes all sorts!

graeme_s-2

Maybe the guy in the photo has some 40-odd mile commute and started out at 4am when it was still cold?

rick_chasey

SimonAH wrote:

Almost every day I see a guy walking with a snooker cue case.

More or less every time I walk down Fulham road in the weekend I pass a chap walking down the road with two live parrots - one on each shoulder.

Sharkyssurfers

had similar yesterday afternoon, guy riding in winter tights overshoes and rain jacket, it was 15 degrees at that point, as i cycle by in bibs and short sleeve shirt

mudcow007

i seen a guy last night who could have been that others evil twin except he was all in black...like a cunning ninja

i suppose he may have been expecting bad weather an was just caught out, but he was still riding along in a hat, helmet, waterproof jacket an trousers

the mind boggles

ToeKnee

Kieran_Burns wrote:

So could someone explain this to me?

Yeah. He's staring at you thinking 'poor sod he must be freezing'.

notsoblue

Kieran_Burns wrote:

You're probably all in short-sleeved tops, fingerless gloves, shorts etc and STILL warm?

I was. After a mile I was sweating.

So could someone explain this to me?



Please note the full water-proof jacket, full gloves, leggings AND woolly hat under the helmet.

Dear God.

He looks like he's going a pretty leisurely pace. Probably isn't even going to break a sweat!

peat

I had leggings and a base top on this morning. Was about 9degC when i left at 6:30. Felt about right, my legs would have been cold in just baggys.

But that dude..... Maybe he is just working on the dehydration = weight loss principle?

msmancunia

We've got the opposite in the aircon'ed office here today. We've got an "only gay in the village" member of staff here who has turned up today in a full spray tan, tweezed eyebrows, sleeveless t-shirt, those boxing boots and.... hotpants! Even the posing meeja types are muttering "it's not really acceptable office wear...."

bails87

msmancunia wrote:

"it's not really acceptable office wear...."

You think I don't know that?

I'll pop home at lunch time and get a scarf!

daviesee

There is the opposite extreme too.

I regularly see a guy commuting in baggy shorts and a t-shirt no matter the weather.
Including during the worst of last winter. -10 degrees, 2 feet of snow and hard packed ice underneath :shock:
He did concede to full gloves on for those days though

Kieran_Burns

We'd commented this morning that we looked forward to the sheltered stretches of road so we could cool down. No pleasing some folks is there?

Kieran_Burns

notsoblue wrote:

Kieran_Burns wrote:

You're probably all in short-sleeved tops, fingerless gloves, shorts etc and STILL warm?

I was. After a mile I was sweating.

So could someone explain this to me?



Please note the full water-proof jacket, full gloves, leggings AND woolly hat under the helmet.

Dear God.

He looks like he's going a pretty leisurely pace. Probably isn't even going to break a sweat!

He'd just pulled away from that junction you can see, in all that get up he can't possibly accelerate any quicker than a glacier

Headhuunter

Wasn't that warm in London this morning, the sun only came out about 30 mins. I'm not on the bike today and walked along the south bank at about 9am and the tops of the tall buildings were in the clouds and fog...

veronese68

msmancunia wrote:

We've got the opposite in the aircon'ed office here today. We've got an "only gay in the village" member of staff here who has turned up today in a full spray tan, tweezed eyebrows, sleeveless t-shirt, those boxing boots and.... hotpants! Even the posing meeja types are muttering "it's not really acceptable office wear...."

Good job he doesn't work in the motor trade. They are rather conservative round here to put it mildly.

Mr Sworld

Veronese68 wrote:

Good job he doesn't work in the motor trade. They are rather conservative round here to put it mildly.

Apparently not....

daviesee

Headhuunter wrote:

Wasn't that warm in London this morning, the sun only came out about 30 mins. I'm not on the bike today and walked along the south bank at about 9am and the tops of the tall buildings were in the clouds and fog...

PS:- 8 degrees here at 6:30-7:00. 5 degrees with wind chill accounted for.
Not that warm really.

team47b

It's obvious to me, he's Portuguese!

Anything under 20c is cold!

It was 30c at midnight the other day, I was still cold.





Sorry, I'll get me coat :oops: