I have a box full of waterproof breathable wind resistant clobber but it's really interfering with my enjoyment of being outdoors in the wind and the rain so I have decided to ride in traditional clothing which will help me to be one with the universe.
What tweed jacket should I wear? And can I use hobnails with SPD?
Look at Ventile clothing
Not sure which jacket but Spencers plus fours for that added northern look.
joking aside, if this is a joke?
since the cold weather started I have been riding in moleskin trousers. they have proven to be far warmer, and comfier than any cycling specific trousers I have ever used.
On a cold morning I love to combine my grubby old lined technical trousers with a tweed shooting jacket to walk the dog in true cotswolds style (its the uniform round here). On the bike would look nice combined with some trouser clips 😛
I was once shown a series of slides (in a private collection) that showed a group of clubmen making a winter crossing of the Stelvio prior to World War1. Fixed gear drop bar bikes on what was little better than a goat track covered in snow and ice. Standard wear was the Norfolk Jacket, plus scarfs. Seems eminently practical to me.
(If I could afford them I'd love to try the Torridon breeks from my link)
for most people's day to day riding, normal clothing is far more suitable than lycra surely?
I hate to see wannabe racers clad in racing kit, pootling to work on a morning.
they look like ****s.
I mostly ride in my birthday suit.. It's waterproof, breathable and far more traditional than your Gore-Tex, tweed, animal skins and all the other new fangled technical clobber
I have a pair of Hoggs tweed plus fours which are fantastic for off road riding through Autumn and into early winter. They don't get snagged on the brambles and brush off the nettles with ease. Plenty warm enough.
Hobnails will slip on the pedals.
I mostly ride in my birthday suit..
The only downside is getting the tip of your 'john-thomas' caught in the chainring!!
Roter Stern - MemberNot sure which jacket but Spencers plus fours for that added northern look.
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Don't know if it's for me, but I'll be the first to admit, it looks a lot better than lycra.
OP now needs a moustache and pipe to compliment the tweed jacket 😉
+1
One rode dressed like party Boy off of on of Jackass for a mates stag do/pub crawl/mtb ride/shambolic blunder. It was a nice day and it did actually feel quite liberating, although I dread to think of the carnage I could have inflicted on myself if I'd fallen off, as the guy dressed a a cow (will real cowbell) did.yunki - Member
I mostly ride in my birthday suit.. It's waterproof, breathable and far more traditional than your Gore-Tex, tweed, animal skins and all the other new fangled technical clobber
I occasionally ride in a Harris tweed baker boy & bow tie
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Ventile is great, until it becomes wet. It'll remain waterproof, but it goes so rigid that I can take my ventile jacket off and it'll continue to assume the shape of my body like some sort of mannequin.