Originally Posted by
Doohickie
You can say ass, you know. And you can still come to FW for one of the ride sometime. Check facebook for Night Riders Fort Worth.
Iusually wear dedicated bike shorts on my commute, but then again I ride about 17 miles each way and take a shower at work.
Ass ass ass ass ass. There I said it!
I keep planning on getting on the TRE and heading over there...but I'll probably just throw the bike on the rack and drive...my schedule is wack yo! (Yeah I'm hep!)
Originally Posted by
MichaelW
For short commutes there is no need to dress up. I dont change into running gear for a walk to the corner shop. I understand the need to preserve office pants and I did exactly the same
I use a pair of polycotton hiking/travel pants that are very windproof and dry quickly. I get about 2 years of commute out of a pair before they are relegated to DIY/gardening duty. You can get harder wearing ones in 100% polyester or nylon.
Poly cotton sounds like it may be a possibility...hiking and travel pants: see explanation below.
Originally Posted by
jyossarian
Dockers stand up to my commute, but that's probably more to do w/ the saddle, a Brooks B17. If you want cycling specific clothing as genec suggested, check out outlier.cc. Spendy, but made for cycling and can be worn in a business casual environment.
Already riding with the B17 crowd and it DID slow down the crotchital carnage a bit.
As far as bike specific goes, I can get shorts through Aerotec in my size (but not the MB shorts). Pretty much all other bikey stuff is non-existent or custom made horribly spendy.
(we're talkin' 58" waist woolly mammoth giant non-economically sized and nobody expects us fat asses
to be interested in outdoor activities)
So in the warmer times I'm wearing the bikes shorts under the regular shorts (don't need to scare the children & animals along the way)...and sweat pants over the bike shorts in the winter.
I've been just changing when I get to work (they're use to it after 3 1/2 years) whipping off the outer layer and pulling on the regular pants over the cycle shorts and MB shoes, but there are times when I can arrive in a non-sweaty state that it would just be cool to unroll the pant leg and go right to work.