Cycle Clothing Outer Hebrides

[Alba Zeus]

Currently on Benbecula and realised I've come away without a Gilet or long sleeve top/jacket.

Anyone know of any local shops in the Uist Islands that do cycle Clothing?

 

[Cycleops]

You'll be lucky. Mr Google tells me there's a thrift shop though.

 

[Sharky]

You can improvise a gillet with a length of bubble wrap from the post office. Just cut a hole for your head and wear it under your top.

Did this a few times myself for early season timetrials.

 

[rualexander]

Just go in to one of the local knitwear shops and get a nice woolly jumper.

 

[I like Skol]

It's August, how cold can it be? (Says the guy who got snowed on at the top of Ben Nevis on Thursday morning!)

 

[Stephenite]

Reminds me of the time in my teens when a climbing buddy asked if i fancied a trip to the Cairngorms. When?, I asked. In about half an hour, he answered. I was living in a commune and i owned, basically, nowt but the clothes i stood up in. We had a fantastic unexpected adventure for a week during which i just ponced about in an 'Oxfam' flight jacket and long johns.

You/one can make do.

It turned out my mate's driver/mate was in the RAF and was called up to Aviemore for summat or other. His windscreen wipers weren't working, and he needed a passenger with long arms to operate them manually.

 

[PaulSB]

It's August, how cold can it be? (Says the guy who got snowed on at the top of Ben Nevis on Thursday morning!)

We got caught on the top of Pendle Hill in a hailstorm last Friday. I've used full winter wet weather gear on a ride from Ullapool to Inverness in July! 🤣

 

[Cycleops]

Just go in to one of the local knitwear shops and get a nice woolly jumper.

You don’t even need to find a shop. I’m sure the locals are friendly

 

[cougie uk]

Bin bags work wonders as emergency ponchos.

 

[slow scot]

Ask any of the staff in the coop.

 

[iluvmybike]

It's August, how cold can it be? (Says the guy who got snowed on at the top of Ben Nevis on Thursday morning!)

On the Outer Isles it can be winter, spring summer or autumn - all in the same day! It is often windy too which makes it feel colder.
Emergency binbag purchase required!

 

[cyberknight]

on a beach near yarmouth last week , sunny but the windchill turned my hands white !

 

[ColinJ]

We got caught on the top of Pendle Hill in a hailstorm last Friday. I've used full winter wet weather gear on a ride from Ullapool to Inverness in July! 🤣

I was supposed to be walking up Ben Nevis with my family at the end of May in 2011 but called off the walk after checking the weather forecast. There was some dissent from family members who didn't believe that it would be that bad at that time of year. Unfortunately, it was - TRAGIC OUTCOME when 2 French lads walked up...

I once got caught in freezing rain in a freak storm on Widdop Rd on a hot sunny day in mid-summer. I went from being very sweaty to shaking with cold in less than 30 seconds!

 

[oldwheels]

Currently on Benbecula and realised I've come away without a Gilet or long sleeve top/jacket.

Anyone know of any local shops in the Uist Islands that do cycle Clothing?

There used to be a shop on South Uist just before the causeway to Benbecula which sold outdoor clothing but probably not cycling specific. Cannot remember the name since it is some years since I did business with them. There was also a cycle hire and repair business at I think Howmore run by the local postman but again my memory is rusty.

 

[cyberknight]

a few years ago we did cat and fiddle early august i think so it was a sunny day in the 20s at least .At the top it was foggy and 6 c