Break out your thermals

[JamesM]

I got my CycleScheme voucher today. I can pick up my bike this afternoon. Great timing eh?!? Not sure I fancy debuting my 13 mile commute along the canal at the moment...

 

[goo_mason]

That was cuffing cold, I may have become a eunuch.

I had my longs, base layer, long sleeve top, nightvision jacket and my buff on and I was still thinking it's a bit nippy.

Note to self, tomorrow cycle faster to keep warm

I think it was 1 degree C this morning when I set off at 6, with the wind making it feel like -5. Quite bracing on the face for the first mile until I'd worked up a heat, and then I was fine and toasty all the way in.

dHb bib longs, Polaris Silicon jersey, hi-viz/reflective waistcoat, Buff under the helmet and - for the first time since last winter - my Night Vision winter gloves.

No ice other than on the cars, but took it easier on some stretches as the roads were thick with grit.

 

[angusde]

I think it was 1 degree C this morning when I set off at 6, with the wind making it feel like -5.

Yep, the Met Office site at Goggarbank was recording between +0.7c and -0.1c between 6 and 8 this morning, which with a 7 knot mean wind gives us between -5 and-6 for the wind chill. But, with blue skies this morning it was pretty refreshing I thought.

dHb bib longs ....

Never having the bottle to wear them in public last year I put them on yesterday and today and decided they're great. Still feel rather self concious though, not helped by a (equally fat!) woman at the station who looked me up and down and explainded loudly to her companion, that "some things just shouldn't be allowed".....

ho hum!

Angus

 

[goo_mason]

Yep, the Met Office site at Goggarbank was recording between +0.7c and -0.1c between 6 and 8 this morning, which with a 7 knot mean wind gives us between -5 and-6 for the wind chill. But, with blue skies this morning it was pretty refreshing I thought.



Never having the bottle to wear them in public last year I put them on yesterday and today and decided they're great. Still feel rather self concious though, not helped by a (equally fat!) woman at the station who looked me up and down and explainded loudly to her companion, that "some things just shouldn't be allowed".....

ho hum!

Angus

I was self-conscious about them when I first got them in 2006 (as I walk through a wing of the building wearing them on my way out), but they're so cosy that in the end I stopped caring.

I'd have been tempted to reply to her as follows:

"Yeah, like you opening your big, fat mouth !"

 

[BentMikey]

Still feel rather self concious though, not helped by a (equally fat!) woman at the station who looked me up and down and explainded loudly to her companion, that "some things just shouldn't be allowed".....

ho hum!

Angus

Just tell her to have a salad!!

 

[BentMikey]

Another good bit of warm kit is my Endura thermolite bibs - they are so warm that they are too hot for cycling when it's above 5 degrees celcius.

 

[fossyant]

I have some Biemme Bib's that are for use in sub 5C temps, and also a decathlon Windproof - used it last night on my evening night jaunt, but that's another low temp top - it goes on just as I leave the door, or I'll melt......

 

[Downward]

Snowing here now - great !!

 

[redjedi]

Never having the bottle to wear them in public last year I put them on yesterday and today and decided they're great. Still feel rather self concious though, not helped by a (equally fat!) woman at the station who looked me up and down and explainded loudly to her companion, that "some things just shouldn't be allowed".....

ho hum!

Angus

You do know your supposed to wear the bib part underneath your jersey?
Otherwise you look a bit like Borat

(I was going to post a picture of Borat in his mankini here, but after googling it, my stomach couldn't take it )

Although I congratulate you on wearing them in public. I haven't had the bottle to go sans baggies yet

 

[peanut]

yes parents in somerset said heavy hail storms. lovely day today to cycline in london though, nice and clear. don't think i'll be riding when it sleets though, brrrrrrrrrr.

Here's sunny Somerset Brrrrrrr

 

[Jake]

lol lovely!

well you better get your waterproofs out tonight, just looked out and its crazy outside! nice weather if your a fish. Leaving bike at work as going into town, thankgod

 

[ellis]

Off work for the half term so thought id go out later at 10ish for a small ride and it was still bloody freezing brrr

 

[Downward]

Snow was ok but it started Sleeting for the last 20 mins and got soaked.
The last 10 minutes my legs were freezing.

 

[Sh4rkyBloke]

Was a bit icy this morning - I stopped at the end of our road to let a car pass, and managed to wheel spin when I exited the junction!!! A bit unnerved me, that!!

Thermal longs under my bib-longs, thermal base layer, l/s jersey and thermal buff under my helmet... still got cold hands and feet though!

 

[mcb2080]

You do know your supposed to wear the bib part underneath your jersey?

Will these not give you very bad nipple rub as being very cold the now I would imagine they would be sticking out

I just recieved Endura Thermolite Tights but they are far to long, being a 32 leg and a 36 waist I ordered xl in keeping with waist size but way too long in the leg.

I am thinking about going down the 3/4 bib tight (so that I don't need to worry about leg length but just don't know how the bib will deal with the nips.

Any ideas?