Sweating when you get to work?

[Flick of the Elbow]

My ride into work is mostly downhill so I'm able to generate minimum heat and get by without a shower. Living not far from the Baltic helps too.

 

[steveindenmark]

No doubt when you are going to work you are in a bit of a rush. If you can leave a bit earlier and go from rushing speed to touring speed it may help.

Dont ride in your work top, wear something like a thermal underware top and take a towel. get you top off in a cubicle at work and have a towel down and cool down and a spray of deodrant.

Its not difficult. The trick is to try and slow down a bit.

 

[Hip Priest]

I was blessed with fantastic shower and changing facilities when I worked full time, so I was very lucky.

And, purely on that basis, I would never ever have considered cycling to work without them.

Baby wipes or no baby wipes, I reckon I would have felt dirty and smelly without a shower and a shave.

Nice clean shirt and dapper suit mixed with sweaty, greasy hair!

Yuk, no thanks.

Just saying like.

A shave? How long was your commute?!

 

[Sandra6]

Its only really a problem in summer, but I just have a quick wash and a spray of impulse.

 

[CopperCyclist]

Yeah, I'm blessed with shower facilities and don't understand how is cope without them. Baby wipes I get, but what about your hair?

If I didn't have any, I'd have to set off earlier and ride slower.

 

[Bazzer]

Personally I ease off a little on the way to work, to save getting too sweaty, then a towel down before changing into work clothes.Give it some thrash on the way home knowing I can shower before dinner.

 

[ianrauk]

Yeah, I'm blessed with shower facilities and don't understand how is cope without them. Baby wipes I get, but what about your hair?

If I didn't have any, I'd have to set off earlier and ride slower.

Hair? WTF is hair?

 

[Drago]

My hair has migrated from the top of my head to my face.

 

[MichaelW2]

Personally I ease off a little on the way to work, to save getting too sweaty, then a towel down before changing into work clothes.Give it some thrash on the way home knowing I can shower before dinner.

Me too. Rolling the last 1/4 mile is a much more effective method of dumping heat than standing around inside your office.
Remove /unzip some clothing, in summer, pour water over your head, arms and back as you roll.

 

[Nearly there]

I keep a bar of soap at work so I can wash my Pits etc a bit of roll on and i'm good to go.

 

[KneesUp]

I wash my hair in the sink in extremis.

 

[broady]

Anyone use/tried the Muc-off dry shower stuff?

 

[runner]

I do have showers at work but I don't use always wait until the evening and then jump in a hot Bath (after a long ride home)....and think over the days commute amongst all those bubbles

 

[Sara_H]

My workplace is at the top of a big hill, so don't have the option of "easing off" before I get there.
In winter I arrive glowing and dewy, in summer I arrive purple and dripping!
Either way, a quick wash and change in the disabled loo and I'm fit for the day.
I find so long as I'm quite clean before I leave, it doesn't take much effort to freshen up. I even put my make up before I leave, I use mineral make up and it freshens up quite nicely with a quick going over with the kabuki.

 

[ClaireSaud]

My work place has a shower in the disabled toilet (no-one currently has use for the disabled facilities). The room is large enough to also store my bike and there is also an airing cupboard where I hang my bike gear. I shower, wash and dry my hair (plug socket in a connecting room/cleaners cupboard) and apply make-up. I feel really lucky because I'm the only one who uses the shower so can keep shampoo, shower gel and face scrub in the shower cubicle.
We have we tenants moving in this month so will have to be respectful if anyone requires use of the toilet.