Keith Oates
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- Location
- Penarth, Wales
I take your point, Elmer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cycling trousers
- Thread starter Elmer Fudd
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Big T
Guru
- Location
- Nottingham
wafflycat said:
Would you walk around in these? Slightly less revealing than lycra, but they make you look like a PE teacher! Fine for actually riding in though.
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
For what it's worth, I wear an old pair of Billabong cord shorts (3/4 length) with Decathlon padded shorts underneath (I do an 8 mile each way commute). The cords are nice and warm (but being 3/4 length not too much so) and the only thing I'd change about them is to give them pockets with zip closures (atm everything I might need goes in jersey pockets).
Cord seems not to lose much heat in the rain (although I ride on drop bars, and I think my riding position keeps a fair bit of rain off my lower half).
I guess the only problem would be that cords would make you look like a geography teacher (wonder if I can get a hi-viz tweed jacket, with reflective elbow patches...?)
I've tried a few baggy shorts etc with inserts, and not really liked them (the ones where the inserts are attached never seem to get the fit of insert and trouser/short right, and the ones with separate inners, you might as well just wear bike shorts under another pair of shorts/trews)
Cord seems not to lose much heat in the rain (although I ride on drop bars, and I think my riding position keeps a fair bit of rain off my lower half).
I guess the only problem would be that cords would make you look like a geography teacher (wonder if I can get a hi-viz tweed jacket, with reflective elbow patches...?)
I've tried a few baggy shorts etc with inserts, and not really liked them (the ones where the inserts are attached never seem to get the fit of insert and trouser/short right, and the ones with separate inners, you might as well just wear bike shorts under another pair of shorts/trews)
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
Hairy Jock said:
I got the Humvee pair to wear on the coldest days of winter last, they were certainly up to the job and at £40 not too expensive, they don't have a pad though, you have to buy this separately or do what I did borrow a pair from my short Humvee's.
Will1985
Über Member
- Location
- South Norfolk
I've got some 3/4 Endura Humvees which came with some useless 6 panel shorts which can clip onto the trouser waistline. I used them at uni without the lycra and always take them with me to Tours/Giros and visiting anywhere for more than a few minutes. With all the pockets, I would recommend any of the Humvee range to friends. I also have some Gridlock waterproof trousers which are very good and obviously cut for cyclists.
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