Wear your sunscreen
 

It is riding season again and it is important to wear your sunscreen or you will look like the cyclist below:

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Does anyone know the brand of the bike in the picture?

Jo-Han

Yes especially those of us with a large number of Celtic forebears. I always carry my SPF 50+.

Not-so-Giant Iguana?

Damn, you got that from not wearing sunscreen? Wow...

DD

Sunscreen -never use it.

No sun up in Thunder Bay? I am a bit south of you and we get plenty. I swear I got burned on one of my trips there.

I've switched to the purely "mechanical" stuff. Titanium and Zinc oxide.

After the winter we just had, (and are still having!:mad:) I will not be putting on anything that will block that beautiful, warming sunshine from my pasty white, vitamin D deprived skin!!!

That's if it ever gets here!:cry:

Sure we get sun in Thunder Bay, but, at the moment, I am in Jamaica and have been riding here for three months. Done close to two thousand miles and not one speck of sunblock. That said...

I don't believe in sunblock. There is controversy, in the scientific community, that challenges the use of sunblock. Apparently, study results findings suggest that people who don't allow the sun to reach their bodies, are more prone to more invasive forms of cancer.

So, been in Jamaica for three months but got burnt only the other day. Different activity, different parts of me exposed to Sunny, and boy did I get burnt (forehead and scalp). Other than that, three months and not a problem with the sun, or the wind, or Mrs. Me.

If you need me, I'll be under the gazebo at the bar. I'd rather apply shade and cool drinks than sunscreen.

Rock Hopper? ;)

randy's post reminds me of christian science.

the sun is great for you. if you burn, though, it is bad for you. if you burn enough, even at a young age, it will catch up to you. ask my grandpa. or don't, 'cause he's dead from spread of melanoma.

Reminds me of global warming denial. Sure, there are a couple of scientific studies that might suggest totally blocking your skin from the sun is not healthy. But much more evidence that over exposure to the sun can be dangerous and risky. I do think that much of the sunscreen hype is just that. And I do believe there is some danger from most sunscreens based on the chemicals they put in to them. But that doesn't keep me from trying to take steps to prevent over exposure and its well documented dangers. It's a personal choice, of course.

I believe it is better to use sunscreen and take a vitamin D tablet. Solves two problems.

http://bikeforums.net/attachment.php...hmentid=442840Different folks/skin have different needs.
My stoker/wife has over 240-thousand miles riding on tandems, much of it in the Sonoran desert (Arizona) and has had several melanomas and two bad carcinomas on her face and leg. Mohs surgery worked great and no real visible scarring thanks to a great surgeon.
Yes, she lathers up in sunscreen SPF 15 every day she rides, even when cloudy.
On the other hand, I, the tandem pilot does not use sunscreen unless I'll be riding at least 3+ hours and then only on my nose/ears.. So far after 300-thousand+ miles of cycling, majority in the same desert sun, have had no issues.
Pedal on!
Rudy and Kay/zonatandem

Rudy. I must ask, if I may...Kay has had that many problems with skin cancers and is only using SPF 15?
That really surprises me.

Sunscreen? we don't need no stinking sunscreen!!

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I never wear sunscreen, more important for me to get vitamin d. I dont know why people think wearing a chemical on your face that no body ever wore before 50 years ago is good for them. But if you think it is, go ahead.

I don't get it. I thought this was the C&V forum, not the Nanny forum. What next -- don't forget your sweater, it's cold out?

I think SPF15 blocks 93% of the rays while SPF30 blocks 97% of the rays.
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why not SPF 100? If your going to wear it/buy it you may as well.

yeah, healthcare was so much better in the middle ages.

if you're white, you have a 1 in 40 chance of developing a melanoma. skin cancer is the most common type.

What are the key statistics about melanoma skin cancer?

It's the machismo thing rearing it's head.