Tanned arms.
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Eribiste
Careful with that axle Eugene
- Location
- Eckington, Worcestershire
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
I've major tan lines this year; I look like a Zebra/Panda.
There's even a section of my hands which are tanned where the glove has a cut-out
There's even a section of my hands which are tanned where the glove has a cut-out
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
- Location
- The hills of Accrington
My arms legs and head tan very well as i work outside, though the forearms get it the most from cycling and work. However my feet remain white even after many hours sunbathing in just swimming trunks! I don't know why but they wont tan.
There's even a section of my hands which are tanned where the glove has a cut-out
Same here. I've been asked be a few people how I bruised my hand! I just then show them my fingers and wrists and it all becomes clear that I just wear fingerless gloves
I've survived helmet strap lines though, probably as I put a lot of SPF50 on my face and neck!
This is my first summer cycling, and in my previous life I rarely ventured out into the sun, so all this deep tanning is a new thing to me!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I don't just have tan lines on my arms, I have masses of freckles too, but the undersides of my arms are still white.
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
I had a rather confusing experience on a warm day a few years back when looking out through the steamed up windows of a cafe and saw a cyclist approach who was stripped to the waist. The skin colour suggested Japanese or Chinese, the dark hair was short and bushy, and although somewhat flat chested the white horizontal band across the upper back indicated a bikini top tanline. Now I have seen topless ladies on the beach, but a topless lady cyclist was a whole new experience for me, anyway this one decided not to enter the cafe and cycled on northwards.
A few miles further up the road and I booked in to a hostel I had stayed at before where there is always segregation of the sexes in the dormitories. Imagine my surprise then to find i was sharing a dorm with the cyclist I had seen at the cafe. Conversation was difficult due to language problems and I was thoroughly confused by this deep voiced bikini wearer but as the evening wore on I discovered this guy regularly wore a heart monitor strapped to his chest when running in the hills of Japan, hence the bikini-like tanline across his back
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A few miles further up the road and I booked in to a hostel I had stayed at before where there is always segregation of the sexes in the dormitories. Imagine my surprise then to find i was sharing a dorm with the cyclist I had seen at the cafe. Conversation was difficult due to language problems and I was thoroughly confused by this deep voiced bikini wearer but as the evening wore on I discovered this guy regularly wore a heart monitor strapped to his chest when running in the hills of Japan, hence the bikini-like tanline across his back
.The first piece of tan I got this year was on a particularly sunny day around March/April I think it was.
I was still wearing a jacket and full finger gloves, but the jacket rolled up a bit leaving a one inch gap, I thought nothing of it. When I got home in the shower, I was horrified to see this band around my right wrist! It's still the darkest part of my tan now about an inch thick.
Now my tan is sort of 3/4 of each finger, a circular part on the back of hand from gap in glove, then just above wrist up to upper arm. My knees themselves are much darker tanned than my lower legs, which are also tanned. Every other part of my body is very white as is my complexion!
I am not sure whether a patch tan is better or worse than my usual no tan (I am actually a computer programmer, and the image in the post above held true for me in previous years!)
Here is part of my hand!
I was still wearing a jacket and full finger gloves, but the jacket rolled up a bit leaving a one inch gap, I thought nothing of it. When I got home in the shower, I was horrified to see this band around my right wrist! It's still the darkest part of my tan now about an inch thick.
Now my tan is sort of 3/4 of each finger, a circular part on the back of hand from gap in glove, then just above wrist up to upper arm. My knees themselves are much darker tanned than my lower legs, which are also tanned. Every other part of my body is very white as is my complexion!
I am not sure whether a patch tan is better or worse than my usual no tan (I am actually a computer programmer, and the image in the post above held true for me in previous years!)
Here is part of my hand!
totallyfixed
Veteran
- Location
- The only county without a McDonalds
Badge of honour on the continent to have cyclist tan lines, not understood over here.
andrew_s
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gloucester
You can get spotty hand from wearing old-style string-backed mitts, and interesting patterns on your feet if you ride in SPD sandals.
Cubist
Still wavin'
- Location
- Ovver 'thill
My arms have a razor sharp tanline across the bicep. My bald head has a series of burnt lozenge shapes from the sun through my helmet vents after last saturday's ride. Knees and shins nicely tanned, with socklines for the first time in years. Full fingered gloves means my hands are paler than my arms.
Knees and shins nicely tanned, with socklines for the first time in years. Full fingered gloves means my hands are paler than my arms.
coffeejo
Ælfrēd
- Location
- West Somerset
Peak on helmet stops face tanning.
Lovely brown arms.
Pale hands, tanned fingers.
Brown legs but not behind the knees.
Mottled feet thanks to SPD sandals.
Lovely brown arms.
Pale hands, tanned fingers.
Brown legs but not behind the knees.
Mottled feet thanks to SPD sandals.
