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Old 05-07-21 | 09:52 AM
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Inisfallen
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Originally Posted by fredlord
You are lucky, and possibly unusual. I am sweaty after five minutes, in any temperature. I have to wash (not necessarily shower) and get into clean, dry clothes after my 20 minute high-effort commute.

So yes, the rigmarole takes as long as the actual ride, but I don't care. I don't cycle-commute to save time.
Possibly. I don't know. I don't sweat a lot, actually.* But also, my commute (about 50 minutes) isn't high-effort. It could be, if I wanted to make it a workout, but I've chosen to make it a bit more leisurely. In part because of the clothing issue.

As I said above, whatever works. Back in my motorcycle days, we had a saying -- "you've got to ride your own ride."


* I know there's a lot of variation in how much sweat people produce, and under what conditions. As proof, I offer this -- a close friend is a lighting director. He shoots a lot of television, some movies, and tons of commercials. He told me once that he always brought a hoodie to work, because some of the talent know that they're prodigious sweaters. If they're big enough names, they'll have it as a condition that the set (assuming it's indoors) has to be cooled to about 50 degrees, so they don't sweat. Otherwise they'll sweat through their clothes, even standing still, at 70 degrees.
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