Re: cycle clothes

On 8 Jun 2025 09:03:49 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 6/7/2025 9:26 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

 
Sure, as I've explained. Remember, I used to commute to work by bike.
Getting ready meant strapping my briefcase on the bike's rear rack,
clipping on an eyeglass mirror (optional but handy in traffic), putting
on an appropriate jacket, and using a safety pin to tighten my right
pants cuff so it stayed away from the chain.
 
Tom, you probably do more to prepare for your recreational rides. I'll
bet you change into a riding costume. I commuted in ordinary business
casual clothes.
 

 
Depends on the distance I found for 3 ish miles then as long as one’s
trousers where’s flappy just jump on and go.

 
My commute was about 15 miles round trip. The only time I bothered with
a change of clothing was when teaching evening classes in summer, which
meant riding in during the heat of the day.
 
After retirement, I took classes myself for quite a few years. I then
extended my ride home, through the big metropark system. As I recall,
that was about 20 miles per day, but still in normal street clothes.
 
Different choices for different folks.
 

>
Possibly your an outlier though my memory was the heat, didn’t you say it
dropped in elevation from Youngstown to the college? Made a quick and dirty
Strava route from Poland to the college’s which suggests a gentle roll into
town so perhaps not surprising you’d not get sweaty on the way in!
>
Do I take it that Sheridan road which Strava seemed keen to plot the route
down, was an old streetcar route?
>
Roger Merriman

7 piddly miles at 13/14/15 mph is not enough to draw sweat on me even
at 90+ degrees, unless, perhaps a following wind cancels out what the
forward motion creates.

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C'est bon
Soloman