Cycling Tans

John Flanagan

Does anyone else get the proverbial ripped for your cycling tans? I took my top off the other day on the beach and got flack for about half an hour from my mates, including the classic (which I will always remember):

"Have you dipped your arms in tar?"

Twelly

I ride naked so I don't have this problem. Nobody takes the piss out of me.

rodgers73

If you're bothered I guess you could get on a sunbed for a while?

hstiles

I tan very easily, so the effect is even more pronounced on me. I wear my cycling tan with pride as proof of hours spent in the saddle. A lot of people can't say too much - it looks a damn sight better than moobs and a beergut.

thegreatdivide

I've got brown armwars, brown legwarms, white sideburns and white gloves.

rick_chasey

No.

They're too busy blowing out of their ass having cycled with me on their way to the beach.

t.m.h.n.e.t

Being pasty and Irish I have to avoid sunlight.

ShutUpLegs

Its why fake tan was invented.

Jez mon

I have brown D shapes on the back of my hands from the holes in my cycling mitts. It's a good look...

NWLondoner

I don't care about cycling tans on my legs/arms etc but being a slaphead does make for interesting summer riding.

I can't wear a cycling cap in summer as i'll overheat and will pass out, so I have to slap lots of factor 50 on in the hope i don't have a nice air vent suntan on my head :oops:

My head is scorching after a gentle 2 hour-ish ride this morning.

Crapaud

NWLondoner wrote:

... I can't wear a cycling cap in summer as i'll overheat and will pass out, so I have to slap lots of factor 50 on in the hope i don't have a nice air vent suntan on my head :oops: ...

I tell people that it's a KOM tan, and I earned it.

schlepcycling

I was in the US a couple of years ago and was on the beach in my swim shorts when an American lady said to me 'wow, that's some farmer's tan you've got there'....never heard that before.

CiB

I came out of the showers after a game of squash and a bloke just peered at me and said 'what happened? Did you have a complete new set fitted?'.

Genuinely funny. At the time.

dw300

I'm ginger, what is this tan you speak of?

apreading

Tan lines from wearing shorts & Tshirt are fairly common, so I dont find they get any remarks. What looks odd to me though, it white hands where I have been wearing mitts - tan lines at the wrist are something new to me since I started cycling alot...

WheelieBad

I'm currently attempting to merge all my freckles together to get a super tan...

Dam these ginger genes!

beverick

John Flanagan wrote:

Does anyone else get the proverbial ripped for your cycling tans? I took my top off the other day on the beach and got flack for about half an hour from my mates, including the classic (which I will always remember):

"Have you dipped your arms in tar?"

Cycling tans, this year? Are you joking. This week is the first time I've worn a short sleeved shirt since March.....

Bob

rick_chasey

beverick wrote:

John Flanagan wrote:

Does anyone else get the proverbial ripped for your cycling tans? I took my top off the other day on the beach and got flack for about half an hour from my mates, including the classic (which I will always remember):

"Have you dipped your arms in tar?"

Cycling tans, this year? Are you joking. This week is the first time I've worn a short sleeved shirt since March.....

Bob

Not sure East Timor has the same climate as the UK...

Pross

Despite the crap whether I have the most distinct cycling tan I've ever had this year. My kids have been laughing at my jazz hands look (not even the trade mark brown oval as no hole on the back of my mitts). Makes me feel like a real cyclist at last even if no-one who sees me on a bike is fooled!

team47b

tans

nickellis

I've been rubbing Johnson's Baby Oil on my arms and legs prior to heading out. Looking to cook my skin even more

I'm proud of my slightly ridiculous looking tan, and love giving anyone how rips the piss out of it an earful about how it's been earned!!!

smidsy

No matter how much I go out my legs seem impervious to sun - the only bit that changes colour at all is the bit between the shorts and my knee (and this is only by a shade or two), so I just have a faint 10cm strip across the front of my legs above my knee - the rest just refuses to change colour, most annoying!!!!

Bozman

I'd gained one hell of a cycling tan but...... i've just been on holiday and ended up with burn't ankles, i just forgot about them still being that bluey white and didn't baste them in lotion. Prat

alihisgreat

smidsy wrote:

No matter how much I go out my legs seem impervious to sun - the only bit that changes colour at all is the bit between the shorts and my knee (and this is only by a shade or two), so I just have a faint 10cm strip across the front of my legs above my knee - the rest just refuses to change colour, most annoying!!!!

shave them?

smidsy

I have not no and if thay is what it takes to tan them my white legs will remain

thegibdog

Rule #7

dw300

thegibdog wrote:

Rule #7

Amen. If you go to the beach on holiday, cycling gear must be brought along!