[Closed] Roadies... Why are they so cold?

you have to dress for the last mile or so from the pub which is all downhill. meaning once you have cooled down you won't get warm for this 5 minutes or so.

I think dressing in autumn/spring can be tricky to get right as the range of conditions can vary so much during the day.

rocketman - Member

More clothing = more space for logos

and for roadies, it's ALL about the logos; big is good, bigger is better. more is good, loads is better.

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they're basically chavs.

(winky smiley smiley winky)

If you're out on a long off road ride, you usually have a bag

Oh dear..

EDIT: Or by long road ride do you mean touring?

Since this winter I've taken to using a newspaper again, still works a treat.

thank god its just a roady thing eh adam 😉

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It's still chilly out there you know. Despite those rather healthy temperatures last week when your are rattling along at an ave of 27mph you do get rather chilly sonny. I'm now in bib short, merino base layer, (well known brand from near Hoxton)'s sportwool short arm and (same brand) long sleeve jersey. I've been a bit chilly most recently changing to short legs again but riding I've been looking for climbs to warm me up.

MTB's have always been a lot slower even rattling along flat sections so the wind chill is nowhere near the same as roadies encounter.
I guess the nearest discipline is the Downhill lot who can plummet quite quickly.

[i]rattling along at an ave of 27mph[/i]

Sure you are, Billy, sure you are...

Here we go 😀

🙂

'Billy' was a name we applied to anyone who talked the talk but was strangely unable to back it up on the actual bike. It started off as 'Eddy', like Eddy Merckx, but became Billy after a trip to Ghent to watch the Ghent 6 in the company of a chap who was a reasonable junior rider and insisted that he was going to come back and spend a season racing in Belgium. While he smoked 20 odd fags in an evening...

We called him Billy Bullshit, World Champion, and it stuck.

Oh well, take it or leave it, your choice, just pointing out differences in wind chill.

"Billy"

Like whateva.

I'll leave it thanks, because you really aren't doing an average of 27 mph, are you?

An average of 18 mph in an urban area is good going. I've done an average, door to door, of 20 mph over 70 miles when I was absolutely stinking fit and flying after a fortnight racing abroad, but 27 mph is only doable by broomstick.

because you really aren't doing an average of 27 mph, are you?

Well of course he isn't, everyone knows a proper bikeist would be doing 44 kmh!

Easter Knees.......simple.. 🙂

Was a bit warm in the thermal tights this afternoon but would have frozen this morning, can always unzip a bit if you're warm more difficult to do something if you're cold though!

The Darkside is strong.

Did my second sportive on Sunday (Essex Spring Lambs Sportive). 94 miles in 4hrs 42. 20mph average.

Did me proud to get 23rd overall and second overall in age group with Team Epping MTB over all the roadie teams 😉

MM

(oh but it's not a race 😉 )

What's that got to do with temperature?

Good going, I've still to do a 100km anywhere near that. Went out with a mixture of local clubs on Sunday, after almost bottling out due to the amount of 1st and 2nd cats in the session. Kept clearing the string of dribble away to see the speedo reading 26 -28mph on the dual carriage way fast sections. Then getting home to see it was only just 18mph average 😥 I thought is was going to be biblical.

1-10 deg full winter kit
10-15 base, long sleeve top and long sleeve Jersey over that with shorts or tights depending on which end of the scale the temp is at.
15+ shorts, base and short sleeve Jersey.

so what do you wear when it is below zero?

I find i tend to stay quite warm on my road bike as the effort is more constant whereas on mtb always stopping to chat, open gates and chat etc etc.

I am always amazed at how much kit a lot of cycle commuters wear. I can be in shorts and base layer and they are still bimbling about in waterproof trousers and jacket. We get something like 10 wet commutes a year in this London so very little need for the sweaty misery of Altura's finest.

That said its a free world!

I am always amazed at how much kit a lot of cycle commuters wear. I can be in shorts and base layer and they are still bimbling about in waterproof trousers and jacket.

The key word is bimbling. Getting up to a decent pace (and unlike sportives commutes [b]are[/b] races, you versus every other commuter) generates a fair bit of internal heat. 's why you boil as soon as ou stop anywhere sheltered.

I averaged 25.64mph on Sunday 😀 And yes, that was quite cold!
It was a time-trial though, fairly sure I couldn't do that on a long ride....
I was colder on Saturday though, out on the MTB. Why has no-one raised the issue of altitude and the fact that on an MTB I tend to go up bigger hills to more exposed places than I do on a road bike? I was wrapped up well then, but rode the TT in shorts (well, short-legged skinsuit, most flattering)

Depends on the individual too surely?

Very rarely ride (MTB - don't do 'road') in more than baggies, base layer and short-sleeve jersey at any time of the year - riding in the snow in February I did have a shell with me but it stayed in the bag until I stopped riding.

Surely wear what you're personally going to be comfortable in and not worry about what other people are doing?

slainte ➡ rob

For every 10mile an hour you go you drop a degree in air temperature I'm sure I read somewhere.

I averaged 2.1mph this weekend 🙁

Although i have just realised my last split was 5 hours 50 and 0m travelled. LOL