What the heck? how cold in August

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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    gabriel959 wrote:
    davis wrote:
    gabriel959 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    Bad for your knees.

    Indeed, keep them out at your own peril. I don't feel the cold but I care about my health and body. You are not brave for cycling in shorts in winter, just careless.

    I'm sure there was some research that agreed with this conclusion, although I've never needed full-length in any weather really - my legs get incredibly hot while my feet freeze.
    Do you have any links to any research that says I'm risking my knees falling off (unless I'm wearing a plastic hat)?

    I remember reading something about it when a club member laughed at me when I turned up in shorts one time and he sent me something via email, funnily enough I can't find it :(

    http://www.randonneurs.bc.ca/toolbox/knees.html

    http://www.wholeathlete.com/assets/docu ... _01-09.pdf

    Neither bases (that I could see) the opinion with proof. They maybe right or they may not.

    If you have any sort of damage knee or otherwise (bone/cartilage) it tends to be worse in cold weather, healed broken bones can ache etc. So that certainly is something to bear in mind.

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