Leg warmer with zipper for easy removal, worth ?

[aJohnson]

Those look like nice hills. Good scenery.

 

[ColinJ]

How has height stopped you from being king though? I can understand being overweight..

Well, I suppose technically it wouldn't if I could get my weight down enough and still keep most of my strength!

Miguel Indurain was a very good climber for a big lad (he was about the weight I'm aiming for and about 1" taller than me), but he never won the King of the Mountains jersey in the TdF. Eddy Merckx was about an inch shorter than me, about 10 pounds less than my target weight and did! Fabian Cancellara is the same height as me and is the weight that I'm aiming for, and he's not a bad climber.

Okay, I take it back - my height shouldn't necessarily stop me being KotM but I'm getting a bit old for it now (53) so I'll use that as my excuse!

 

[ColinJ]

Those look like nice hills. Good scenery.

You're not far away so why don't you come along on one of my rides too? I've had CycleChat riders from many north-western towns/cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, Bury, Bolton, Rochdale, Oldham and Preston turn up in the past.

 

[Garz]

I definitely will mate, I have a buddy from farnworth who will be interested and im sure andy would pop along. Guess its time to jump on the train and dare those monster halifax hills!

 

[PaulSB]

My leg warmers have a seam across the back of the knee which I find really uncomfortable. Is this common to all brands or have I made a poor choice?

 

[ASC1951]

Only areas I ever felt the cold were the knees and the crotch. you can always stuff an extra layer down your front, could even be impressive if done right

To mis-quote Spike Milligan "Many ladies made his acquaintance during the mixed cycling season, only to be disappointed later.."

I don't often wear legwarmers, but when I do it is either a short ride which is going to stay cold, or a longer ride where I don't begrudge the extra minutes taken to remove my shoes and put them back on. [You can tug the stretchy ones off over the shoes and overshoes, but I have smacked my face on the tarmac more than once trying that.]

 

[ColinJ]

I don't often wear legwarmers...[You can tug the stretchy ones off over the shoes and overshoes, but I have smacked my face on the tarmac more than once trying that.]

Ho, ho - I punched myself in the face once when I lost my grip trying to remove an armwarmer; I ended up with a nice split lip!

 

[jimboalee]

Within my fifteen year attempt to get the calories counter correct, I considered the amount of windchill on my bare flesh. That was easy as formulae exist.
The tricky bit came when I tried to estimate the amount of energy escaping through the clothing I was wearing.
As luck had it, a kind girl at a clothing manufacturer faxed me a list of coefficients of thermal conductivity for the fabrics they used to make cycling clothing.

As a generalisation, 0.03 W/(m.K) was the number most suited to my application. This was 'Damp Lycra' and was used for the 0.22 m^2 of my legs' frontal area.

The amount of energy escaping through damp lycra at 16 Deg C wasn't much less than no tights at all.
The advantage of wearing leggings was when the windchill got low enough to freeze the water droplets on the outer surface. An ice layer over fabric is quite a good insulator compared with human hairy legs.

The rewards of my efforts was to see how much quickly I can burn calories ( and lose weight ) if I leave off the leggings until the ambient temperature gets down to a point where my sweat starts to freeze.

I start wearing leggings when at 14 mph airspeed ( average ) the ambient temperature is 6 Deg C or lower.
This is nowhere near the exposure level for frostbite. For my hour commute, the ambient temperature must be minus 9 Celsius for frostbite.

 

[alebleicker]

I'd say that the thin leg warmers knock the coldness/warmness level up about one notch.

Cold -> Cool
Cool -> Mild
Mild -> Warm
Warm -> Hot
Hot -> Get 'em off quick!

You are right about the disco look! I've done it once or twice with the leg warmers; much more often with arm warmers, usually when going up a climb because I know I'm going to want to roll them back up for the next descent.

I think it will be okay just rolling down and up, I'll forget the idea about zipper.
I'll try that thin lycra for the legs and see what happens

 

[alebleicker]

To mis-quote Spike Milligan "Many ladies made his acquaintance during the mixed cycling season, only to be disappointed later.."

I don't often wear legwarmers, but when I do it is either a short ride which is going to stay cold, or a longer ride where I don't begrudge the extra minutes taken to remove my shoes and put them back on. [You can tug the stretchy ones off over the shoes and overshoes, but I have smacked my face on the tarmac more than once trying that.]

I think I'll stay just with the rolling technique
thanks for let me know this =)