Shorts or tights

[youngoldbloke]

Thin tights - they dry off really quickly. Also thin full finger gloves, under your mitts, with plastic disposable gloves under. Thin plastic bags over your socks, and shoe covers too. Nothing worse than cold wet hands and feet, painful even at this time of the year.

 

[cloggsy]

Even my poor "little man" had shrivelled up with the cold when I went for a shower

TMI!

 

[pepecat]

Shorts for me.... (not all year round, but i would this time of year). I did a ride in Oct last year in the rain ('nother charity one) and wore shorts and it was fine. I rekcon if i'd have had wet fabric sticking to my legs all the way round i'd have felt colder than i did in the shorts.

 

[MoG]

The older I get[*] the more important I find it to keep my knees warm. So I'll often cycle in tights at any temperature up to "I can feel the sun warming my legs"

[*] or maybe just, the more often I fall on them. Will stem cell researchers please hurry up and figure out how to regrow knee cartilage?

+1.

 

[chillyuk]

Wore shorts for the event. We had some light drizzle but I was hardly aware of it on my legs. It didn't rain enough to cause any road spray so my feet stayed dry.

 

[The Dwaff Family]

Absolutely peed it down Aylesbury way yesterday when my lad was doing his charity ride, arm warmers, leg warmers and waterproofs all very much required You were a lucky one!!

 

[chillyuk]

Absolutely peed it down Aylesbury way yesterday when my lad was doing his charity ride, arm warmers, leg warmers and waterproofs all very much required You were a lucky one!!

Big congratulations to your littl'un, he did well!

 

[The Dwaff Family]

Thanks chillyuk, I was surprised initially that it wasn't cancelled and then worried sick he wasn't gonna cope, but boy oh boy, there's something even more victorious about doing it in the crappy rain

 

[HLaB]

I prefer shorts too (bib shorts to be precise) for riding over 1/2 an hour and anything over 5-6deg'ish; not that I watch the exact temperature just what feels right. It also depends what I'm doing if I'm riding high tempo with the club I'm more inclined to wear shorts. Quite a few times I've took leg warmers to a sportive but left them in the car :-)