BlindRobert

Anybody use any loose fitting winter cycling pants that they particularly like? All my winter gear is from my time as a roadie...I would feel silly on my fixie in an Assos winter getup. In my mind the perfect thing would be a pants length version of the Oakley shorts I use during the summer.

HereNT

Uh wear do you need it? Here I wear 1 or sometimes 2 pairs of long johns under heavy jeans in the winter, with lots of layers up top... I don't think they make any bike specific stuff for people that live up here...

hammye

I bought a few pairs of snowboard pants a few years ago and sewed some custom leg straps to them. Things are waterproof and super warm with a pair of tights underneath. Look at T.J. Max sometime. They were like 20 bucks or something.

eric w

banana hammock and a wifebeater

pitboss

what? no marble sack? Damn...no respect

Awesome idea hammye. I bought "loser" winter team tights off of eBay (whichever team wasn't cool a few years ago I picked up a few set for 15 bucks each) and wore them under fatigues or jeans.

SSSwede

Skiing pants with a thick rubber band around right leg to prevent pantsincogdisasters, Fluorescent protection west to prevent beeing hit by lumber trucks, top it of with a robber-hood and a stupid looking knitted cap and Viola! the winter biker steps forth...

chimblysweep

i'm real big on the skirt with knit tights and legwarmers over them for the winter. i love biking in skirts. it rawks.

i'm against waterproof though. if you're not sweating yourself wet from the inside, you need to pedal harder. if you are, why are you wearing that stupid thing?

hammye

I'll get the digi cam from work this weekend and send some photos of my stylish trousers. Think snowboard knickers.

HereNT

There's a difference in the sweat coming off of your body (which the tights in hammeye's idea would wick away) and the blizard on the outside... I imagine that with the snowboarding pants, you could just brush the snow off when you get wherever you're going.

bostontrevor

How far do you have to go? When it's too cold out, I just go to work and back usually. That's an intense 20 minutes for me, so I just wear some regular pants with a leg rolled up. On cold days throw on some mostly synthetic fiber (or wool) long underwear.

SSSwede

Do wear something warm on Your head boys, I had a frostbitten ear a couple of Years ago from riding drunk in -20 C, that ear was never really cured, it went twice its normal size and purple, I`m glad the horrible thing didn't fall of. Point is, frostbite is for life, cover head and hands.

bostontrevor

That just above freezing rain is about the worst. Wet, cold, throw in some wind and it's a gram's own recipe for hypothermia. Staying warm is easy when you're dry.

Oh, and for the record, the absolute worst is just *below* freezing rain. When it comes down wet but freezes on the street. Sweet Jebus.

SSSwede

-4 Fahrenheit is common, my record is -40F (which by coincidence is exactly the same as -40C) and believe me that bites. My wife (a true viking wench) called me a sissy when I said I couldnīt ride a bike at -40, she rode hers to the stable to go horseriding. No wonde we drink a load of vodka every winter....

lucklust

The winters here are pretty vicious. Last January, it got down to 60 degrees.

SSSwede

60 or -60? if -60
do
get drunk
else
ride bike

lucklust

I'm exaggerating a bit. The low temp last winter was 45 degrees. And no, that is not a negative value.

SSSwede

I am really not meaning to sound like a stupid macho here but it can be really cold and dark here during november-fabruary, some people get depressions due to lack of light and light therapy is pretty popular, autumn depression is a common thing, alcoholism and wifebeating accelerates during the winter bla bla bla why donīt I just move to California...

pitboss

wifebeating laws are rather strict out there.

SSSwede

There always is a catch isnīt there? Well the wife is pretty muscular and as a true viking wench just pays back, any laws against bikeriderbeating?

kurremkarm

Long johns and jeans. IR low tech.

cavit8

For all your winter cycling clothing needs
https://www.icebike.com/Clothing/clothing.htm
(although they're a little more gear oriented than I am. As far as cycling pants go for winter, I generallly wear a pair of army surplus nylon windpants over some polyproplyene tights. Toronto is pretty warm in winter compared to the -40C winters in Saskatchewan, where I'm from, so I don't usually have to add fleece pants all that often.

hammye

The pants I use are easy entry, comfi, dry, easy exit and cheap. I lucked out finding that deal when I did. They were the best pants out there for Boston messenger work in the winter.

luckycat

So you have assos(probably the nicest and most expensive ) gear and don't want to wear it because you're riding a fixed gear? That's just stupid, I'm sorry, but it is. Why the hell do you have to dress a certain way because you're riding a fixed gear?

icithecat

I'm afraid I would look downright silly in this getup. I'm not in Scotland.

i'm real big on the skirt with knit tights and legwarmers over them for the winter. i love biking in skirts. it rawks.

naisme

I have two choices, I have a pair of Pearl Izumi Amfib tights that I wore in the 40 degree rain we had here, and I ride fixed gear all winter. I also have a pair of Bellweather tights with windstop nylon on the front side with a knee joint, they are toasty and I am good to -23F last year, of course the bike wasn't that night my Surly hub imploded, something about how I'd set up the cone nuts, and tightened the axel nuts. Man that was a night from H E double toothpicks. I did manage to ride in -4F my 24 mile commute, and was mildly hypothermic last year. I was cold and clamy by the time I got home, had stopped sweating and couldn't warm up. Scared the buh-gee-zus out of me. I jumped in the shower. later learned that hydration is just as important in the winter as in the summer. I'd not drank the whole ride, or had stopped cause the water bottles were frozen. Add to that the breathing in cold air brought my core temp down, well... I had images of being found like the old geezer in the movie "Jeremiah Johnson," frozen with my rifle still in my hands.