[Closed] Singletrack winter clothing - legs (vanity warning)

I find once I've got mid length Sealskin socks on with knee pads I have about 2" of exposed flesh.

It's got to be proper cold for my legs to feel it, I always wear shorts for MTBing.

In fact I nearly always wear shorts!

EDIT: I'm a flat pedal user. A northern one at that 😉

Some inspiration for you.

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Or just wear shorts.

I wear bib tights for most of my colder months mtb'ing. No shorts required

I have some Ron hill bikesters, they're great tight trousers with loops. 20 quid. Every ride in the cold with them on.

As the speeds are generally slower, especially in woodsy riding there is less wind chill. Three quarter undershorts are enough in most weathers with baggies on top. Baggy shorts are not necessarily a vanity thing, you are more likely to hit the ground which would render most lycra useless. Baggies shrug off most slips and slides.

On one merino knee warmers with bib shorts and endura mt500 shorts to keep the worst of the splashes off.

Works for me but I couldn't care less how it looks...

Baggies over tights?

3/4 roubaix tights, winter boots and wool socks most of the time. Chuck on a pair of shorts (type dependent on personal preference) over the top to keep out the filth, or if you have a possibility of lots of falls. Generally this leaves very little to get cold. I generally find that if the boots are good then you are a lot warmer so that is where your investment should go.

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Always shorts, if you are getting cold pedal harder?

I hope you have a bag full of warm clothing.

I use flat pedals and trainers. If i'm on the road a lot and wearing bib tights etc I just use black Altura shoe coovers. It keeps my old trainers nice and warm/dry and they don't stick out like a sore thumb when all my other kit is proper cycling stuff.

Not a fan of baggy shorts but I got some in Decathlon for going to work in. No point in lycra for a 10k commute but needed something that'll dry before I ride home if it's rained (that said, I've been wearing them over tights this week in the cold weather) - bought a size smaller and they fit quite close so no swooshing noise with every pedal stroke, crotch/saddle snagging, they actually feel like wearing lycra. Not like doing PE in your school shoes, to use the OPs analogy.

On the website I think they are called 'shorts 5' but if you get a size smaller they won't look anything like as long/baggy as they do in the photos.

[i]So is looking good.[/i]

There's your problem.

I wear lycra shorts with baggies over the top. Normally Endura Singletrack.
That's on all bikes, on and off road.

Samuri, you are a man of taste, that's my exact clothing choice for riding my new road bike 🙂

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I just can't see myself pulling off tights and trainers on flat pedals riding a hardtail through singletrack.

There's your problem, just wear longs or three-quarters under your baggies with some warm socks for winter MTB. Job done. It's not a fashion show, and if that is important to you then that's what most guys wear (round our way anyway).

If you wear DH trousers you will look silly unless you have the skills to match 😆

Endura and a few others I think, make full length trousers in sober black cordura type stuff which would keep you warm and don't look like DH clown pants! I picked a pair up as I too don't have the figure for Lycra but they felt very heavy which rather put me off.

Winter sometimes calls for baggies, knee pads and tights for me. I look rad 8)

[i]that's my exact clothing choice for riding my new road bike[/i]

😉

At the velodrome they make you wear lycra. So donned in my brand new £80 bibs one day, I set off for a session. Bloke comes down the track at me, try and swing up behind him, clip his back wheel and on my arse I go, doing about 30mph. Slide quite a long way and eventually stop on the concrete. Bibs are shredded, soaked in blood and ruined. £80 down the drain. If they would have let me wear baggies I'd have just bruised my arse a bit.

Could always wear SPD shoes - tights don't look odd then!

Velodrome is the only place I've ever ridden in lycra shorts with nothing over the top 🙂

Good few options on crc, like the look of the Alpinestars
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/pants-cycle?f=2258

just wear longs or three-quarters under your baggies with some warm socks for winter MTB. Job done......

If you wear DH trousers you will look silly unless you have the skills to match

This^ 😀

Wearing DH pajamas is going to make you look far worse than even the worst combination of tights/ trainers/ flat pedals 😆

Wanting to look good rules out both 3/4 length shorts and long socks

Lycra shorts, gore windstopper tight over the top, sealskin extreme winter sock and shimano mtb shoes clipless - but, isnt it possible to get less skater shoe looking flats?

I dont get laughed at (except when falling off but that has little to do with my clothes!), however, I am a girl - but then you are a roadie so not too dissimilar (< that is a joke btw!!!)

Bibs and baggies, Endura all round. 1/2 length in Summer 3/4 in Winter. I've never been cold enough to need tights even in for a day in the Snow.

Baggies are protection, mountain biking is not road cycling after all. I think lycra only is just for racing.

Vanity on a bike? Camelbak, helmet, mud up your back... you're never going to look good. Baggies make you look like a geek, lycra like a gimp. Just wear something comfortable.

my knees would get too cold wearing 'just' shorts in rubbish weather. So it's 3/4 bib shorts, or full-on Endura thermal tights. With waterproof baggies if there's a lot of crud about.

And a crud catcher f+r.