Re: cycle clothes

On 6/8/2025 5:03 AM, Roger Merriman wrote:

Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

 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.
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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.
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Different choices for different folks.
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 Possibly your an outlier...

I'm definitely an outlier, in multiple ways.

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!

One of the many things I love about my location is that yes, it's flat to downhill to the university, except for the short steep rise in the last half mile. But on those summer afternoons, I definitely arrived sweaty. I didn't use cycling clothes, but I'd ride in normal shorts and a t-shirt.
In those days, my typical riding speed on flat ground was about 19 mph. Even in winter, just above freezing, I normally wore just a sweater and windbreaker jacket over office casual clothes. I'd frequently peel off the jacket along the way.
I parked my bike in my Robotics laboratory. For those summer rides I changed clothes there, after sitting in front of a workshop pedestal fan until I cooled off.
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- Frank Krygowski