Loosing the showers

[Deleted member 20519]

Baby wipes and deodorant!

 

[Jezston]

All these folk who couldn't ride 10 miles without a shower. Some of us don't have this option. About 2 to 3 times a week, I have a 10 mile commute into the office, then a 6 mile commute to a site, then 6 back then another 10 home. No showers or changing rooms. Lucky if I get a disabled loo, but its mainly a loo cubicle. Baby wipes and a bottle of Sure 48 hour is all I have.

I feel lucky with that, at least I can get changed in my office a fair amount of time. Getting changed in a loo cubicle isn't pleasant. Oh and my employer has about 4000 employees in Manchester. I know of a couple of showers, between hundreds of cyclists. We all seem to manage.

Baby wipes! Baby wipes! Where ah work you'd be lucky to get owt but gravel t' rub yerself down wit after riding bike hundred miles from 'ovel t' pit.

 

[Tcr4x4]

I have access to to a chemical spill contamination shower, but that's it.. Trouble it, it sets all the alarms off at the same time!

It would be pointless anyway. I get far more sweaty doing my job than I do cycling in.. I'd be having a shower every half an hour.

People must accept that a physical job means a sweaty man!

Lynx Africa is the future.

 

[Sara_H]

I don't have a shower when I get to work as I don't have time. I have a bit of a wipe round with a soapy flannel, then use talc, and change into office clothes.. No ones made any complaints and I don't seem to attract flies!

 

[crazyjoe101]

I'd like to cycle to Sixth Form but going in in my suit is not an option, it's not like when I had a school uniform which was 'expendable'. There are showers in the PE changing rooms but I've never seen them used and it's all locked up in the morning, besides, I wouldn't use communal showers . I know some teachers cycle in (one in his suit! D but it seems wierd to ask if there's a shower (if there isn't one they may think I'm implying that they're unhigenic).

 

[Kookas]

I'd like to cycle to Sixth Form but going in in my suit is not an option, it's not like when I had a school uniform which was 'expendable'. There are showers in the PE changing rooms but I've never seen them used and it's all locked up in the morning, besides, I wouldn't use communal showers . I know some teachers cycle in (one in his suit! D but it seems wierd to ask if there's a shower (if there isn't one they may think I'm implying that they're unhigenic).

You can cycle in a suit if you can take it easy (10mph Dutch style uses about as much effort as walking, but it's still a lot quicker).

I'm glad my sixth form is just a sixth form college, though. I wear my SPDs all day, and might well do the same with a cycling top (at the moment, I just commute in normal clothes).

 

[crazyjoe101]

You can cycle in a suit if you can take it easy (10mph Dutch style uses about as much effort as walking, but it's still a lot quicker).

Perhaps he doen't have far to go but even with it just being a 4mi trip that wouldn't work for me. It's a little bit dissapointing that a whole cycle lockup structure was built but that there aren't any showers.

 

[Kookas]

Perhaps he doen't have far to go but even with it just being a 4mi trip that wouldn't work for me. It's a little bit dissapointing that a whole cycle lockup structure was built but that there aren't any showers.

Nah, you can cycle at that pace for ages without sweating just like you can walk for ages without sweating. 4 miles would only take about 25 minutes at that pace.

 

[subaqua]

I don't have a shower when I get to work as I don't have time. I have a bit of a wipe round with a soapy flannel, then use talc, and change into office clothes.. No ones made any complaints and I don't seem to attract flies!

best let this one know how to do it properly !!!!

 

[Sara_H]

best let this one know how to do it properly !!!!

Bleugh!

 

[Frood42]

We have showers but the office is very car centric, so I seem to so far have almost exclusive access to it. I get in at 0830 for a 0900 start so I can take my time. Just need lockers now rather than using a coat stand and my desk drawers.

 

[Herbie]

Got an e-mail today at work, upgrades to the showers as there is an increase in demand. Currently we have 4 mens and 2 ladies.
Getting a shower before 9am is pretty much impossible, must be about 50 - 60 guys showering each day.
So the ladies is moving else where and the mens is merging with the current ladies. More lockers being put in and more space for changing and hanging up clothes.

Only downside is this is going to take 5 weeks, with no shower access during that time period
The upside is towels will still be provided and there is a single shower on each floor, however they are like steam rooms!

get a bus

 

[gaz]

get a bus

Do you mean buy a bus or take the bus? Either way, it would be quite expensive and quite time consuming to use a bus as a mode of transport.
If I was to take it, it would require nearly 2 hours each way with several changes, charges being around £16 per day.

 

[cyberknight]

All these folk who couldn't ride 10 miles without a shower. Some of us don't have this option. About 2 to 3 times a week, I have a 10 mile commute into the office, then a 6 mile commute to a site, then 6 back then another 10 home. No showers or changing rooms. Lucky if I get a disabled loo, but its mainly a loo cubicle. Baby wipes and a bottle of Sure 48 hour is all I have.

I feel lucky with that, at least I can get changed in my office a fair amount of time. Getting changed in a loo cubicle isn't pleasant. Oh and my employer has about 4000 employees in Manchester. I know of a couple of showers, between hundreds of cyclists. We all seem to manage.

all these folk who work in nice offices, try an industrial sized weld shop with mahoosive welding robots , the least of your worries is if you have have had a shower after a 10 mile commute

 

[downfader]

all these folk who work in nice offices, try an industrial sized weld shop with mahoosive welding robots , the least of your worries is if you have have had a shower after a 10 mile commute

I work in a busy catering environment. Averages out at about 30C during the spring and summer, still in the 20s during the winter. So humid you could swim in it. The bike often cools me down during the summer, LOL