Thunder pants

[Blue Hills]

I know cycling has long been the new golf but I can't believe the price of these things.

https://www.bike24.com/p2398802.htm...leidung_en&utm_content=en-product-text-398802

And I seem to remember Thunder Pants as a Viz strip.

Feel free to top this with more extravagantly priced stuff.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Not unusual pricing for gore tex stuff.

 

[Blue Hills]

Not unusual pricing for gore tex stuff.

Well my gore jacket and army bivi cost substantially less
(not to mention a fair few of my bikes)

 

[lucidone]

Nearly as pricey but come with a comfort pledge....

https://www.thunderpants.co.nz

 

[fossyant]

Ooof - wonder how long they last with gravel and mud between you and the saddle - doesn't half chew up the seat of your pants.

 

[SkipdiverJohn]

I've got a much cheaper way to stay dry whilst cycling, which I try to do every single time I ride. Check weather before getting bike out and don't cycle in the rain unless absolutely unavoidable. Even in our dodgy country I get away with it at least 19 out of 20 times.
Will I be buying £300 trousers when I'm usually riding a £30 or less bike? I think you can guess the answer to that.... Goretex is good stuff, but it doesn't have to cost anything like that much. Obviously messing about on a bike in the woods has gone a bit upmarket since I started doing it. Now just as then, I just wear my shabbiest most tatty apparel, often one last outing for my grubby work clothing before I chuck it in the washing machine.

 

[tyred]

That's almost as much as my car cost

 

[Cycleops]

All to do with the rise of the hipster cyclist with more money than sense.

 

[Blue Hills]

All to do with the rise of the hipster cyclist with more money than sense.

I did find myself wondering how much suitable underwear which was worthy of them might cost. And then the full outfit.
Suppose it might reduce bike theft - crooks thinking, sod the bike, I'll take your clothes.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Well my gore jacket and army bivi cost substantially less
(not to mention a fair few of my bikes)

You were saying?

https://www.bike24.com/p2275767.html?menu=1000,18,64

 

[fossyant]

when I'm usually riding a £30 or less bike? Obviously messing about on a bike in the woods

Yup, it's gone upmarket - one of my tyres are double that at RRP.

 

[Blue Hills]

You were saying?

https://www.bike24.com/p2275767.html?menu=1000,18,64

well mine is an earlier generation.
and has added features, like you can actually wear something on your back without trashing it.
Come to think of it I also have another gore jacket - cost me £70 - from those Karrimor style merchants - but I only wear that in northern blizzards - - it's a bit over the top down south.

 

[Oldhippy]

Army surplus does the same for much much less.

 

[Baldy]

Don't know whether you do facebook or not but there's these.


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