Originally Posted by
heywood
If you work in an office and have to wear a suite? or like me in a data center, we have to be at least 'office casual'.. no way i'm riding home from work on a hot summer day for 20km in slacks, shirt, dress shoes..that's nuts.. Even factory work or fast food servers would want to change for distance riding..I could see that if you were 5 or 10 minutes riding distance from home.
I'm a truck driver and I'm required to wear a uniform and steel toes. I change my shirt because they frown on us wearing it off duty, and I change my shoes because steel toes are clunky to ride in........but I have worn both with minimal adjustment. My commute is 8.4 miles and very hilly. My average speed on my dutch bike is 13 mph and on my road bike its 15 mph, my other bikes fall between that.
If certain types of clothing aren't climate appropriate that's a different matter, obviously nobody's going to ride wearing a wool suit in hot weather, or shorts and shirt in sub freezing weather.