The Retirement Thread

[GM]

Morning all. Was hoping to go on the London Brompton group ride to Cambridge today, but all that shuffling along on the march yesterday ( 4 and a half hours to do a mile and half ) has made my dodgy knee sore again . Maybe I'll do it by myself during the week.

 

[Dave7]

A proper pie?
None of yer 'chunky soup in a bowl with a pastry lid' I hope! View attachment 458963

Now that looks like a REAL pie

 

[Dave7]

A question for @jongooligan , @dave r and other similar distance cyclists.
Jon, what did you wear yesterday ?? I imagine it would have been very cold to start so you would need plenty of layers but by the time you finished you would be quite warm.... where would you stash everything ?
I only do short rides if cold so only have to open a few zips if I get warm.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

A question for @jongooligan , @dave r and other similar distance cyclists.
Jon, what did you wear yesterday ?? I imagine it would have been very cold to start so you would need plenty of layers but by the time you finished you would be quite warm.... where would you stash everything ?
I only do short rides if cold so only have to open a few zips if I get warm.

@Dave7 This is the thread from 2014, https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/100-mile-fixed-gear-ride-spring-2014.136598/page-16

This ride was done on my Pearson Touche fixed, which I haven't got now. I wear pretty much what I would usually wear for a ride, I'd look at the weather forecast and try and work out how I'd need to dress, if I was a bit cold at the start but a bit warm at the end I'd recon I'd got it about right, I don't have the carrying capacity to stash stufff on the bike. On this ride the weather was sunshine and showers, so my rain jacket was being worn for part of the ride, otherwise, cycle shoes and overshoes, bamboo undershorts, tights, base layer, sweatshirt and a long sleeved zip up jersey.

 

[Mo1959]

A question for @jongooligan , @dave r and other similar distance cyclists.
Jon, what did you wear yesterday ?? I imagine it would have been very cold to start so you would need plenty of layers but by the time you finished you would be quite warm.... where would you stash everything ?
I only do short rides if cold so only have to open a few zips if I get warm.

They’re expensive unless you can find a sale, but I highly rate the Castelli Perfetto long sleeve jersey. Windproof and showerproof but won’t make you sweat too much when it warms up. Usual Italian sizing though so size up.

 

[classic33]

A proper pie?
None of yer 'chunky soup in a bowl with a pastry lid' I hope! View attachment 458963

Where's the rest of it though.

 

[jongooligan]

A question for @jongooligan , @dave r and other similar distance cyclists.
Jon, what did you wear yesterday ?? I imagine it would have been very cold to start so you would need plenty of layers but by the time you finished you would be quite warm.... where would you stash everything ?
I only do short rides if cold so only have to open a few zips if I get warm.

Yesterday's ride was an audax where you often see riders with saddlebags so that they can carry extra clothing, shedding layers as the day warms up and then putting them back on in the evening when it cools down.

I prefer to travel lighter and hopefully faster to dodge the colder parts of the day. However, with an 8 o'clock start yesterday it was a little cool so I put on silk, full fingered glove liners under my track mitts, a thin nylon helmet liner under my cap to keep my ears warm, neoprene toe covers on my shoes and a thin nylon jacket over my long sleeved top. All of those came off after around twenty miles, by which time I was cooking. They're all very light and easily stashed in pockets where they're easy to get at if I need to put them back on.

 

[172traindriver]

Well done. Hope your sore bits heal soon.

You should offer to go round and get your healing hands on them

 

[numbnuts]

I've just walked 7 miles

It was so nice today I did it again.....

 

[Dirk]

This was so nice I had to have another, and another.........

And...........

 

[Dave7]

This was so nice I had to have another, and another.........

View attachment 458995 View attachment 458996

And...........

Now that really does look good. A nice rich colour AND a good head on it.
Where abouts are you ?

 

[Dave7]

Just got back from a 50 mile ride.
Actually it was only 10 but it felt like 50. My fitness is reasonably good as I do a fair bit on the exercise bike but 'by the cringe' that wind was cold and strong. Again, I doff my hat to you distance winter cyclists.....but you can have my share

 

[snorri]

Just got back from a 50 mile ride.
Actually it was only 10 but it felt like 50.

Thanks for that Dave7.

 

[Dirk]

Now that really does look good. A nice rich colour AND a good head on it.
Where abouts are you ?

In my local.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Just got back from a 50 mile ride.
Actually it was only 10 but it felt like 50. My fitness is reasonably good as I do a fair bit on the exercise bike but 'by the cringe' that wind was cold and strong. Again, I doff my hat to you distance winter cyclists.....but you can have my share

Well done, that wind has been a nuisance for a while now, the bonus is that it's been getting the washing dry, I got another line full dried today.