Wearing shorts in winter.

MolteniArcore said:
I tend to find, in winter, once you are out you are alright if you have the right kit. But I am very much a summer rider!
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Yeah, you're not wrong, but kit selection is never easy! Have to factor for temp, wind, rain, sun, altitude, traffic/ visibility, are you stopping/ where etc?

It's that first 10 minutes, it's brutal. As you know you can't wear too much as you end up roasting and then sweating your nuts off which comes back to bite back later, as it doesn't dry. There's only so much room in a jacket for layers, and rucksacks are no good for a blast on a road bike.

I only really have time for a quick 30-60 minute blast, especially with the darker nights, so it's not really worth it to brave that first 10 mins. In spring/ summer I go out in practically bare bones, as on a 2-4hr ride it's worth it.
 
Always wear shorts regardless of the season. Far more comfortable than anything else and it doesn’t even get that cold in winter in the uk
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
Just remembered, we all wore short trousers at school up until secondary school.
No one ever complained of cold legs.
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I got cold, hated it and was for whinging.

I've just been up the street and there was a lad in shorts baring his corn beef rash legs, he looked nithered
Kevo4 said:
I’ve worked hard to get these calfs pal, like hell I’m hiding them
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How chicken legs, I think you need to increase the gradient on the hill and improve them a little bit more. 🤣 🤣 🤣
 
Norman_Conquest said:
I got cold, hated it and was for whinging.

I've just been up the street and there was a lad in shorts baring his corn beef rash legs, he looked nithered

How chicken legs, I think you need to increase the gradient on the hill and improve them a little bit more. 🤣 🤣 🤣
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I thought Eston/Normanby were all tough?
😀
 
Andy_W said:
Same, let people wear what they like, who cares? Do they whinge about women wearing skirts or dresses on their Christmas night out?

I draw the line at people wearing pyjamas out mind, who blatantly slept in them, and wear slippers which clearly are not practical for even a one-minute walk through a car park.

I spend most of my day in shorts working from home, if I expect I don't have to go out for anything like any meetings or whatever. But if I end up needing to go to Tesco or the Post Office there's no way I'm getting changed again, and then again when I get back, I'd just go in shorts. I likely won't die and the 30 seconds walk from the car isn't much to worry about, not compared to playing sport on a weekend in shorts and t-shirt :/

Alternative thinking is maybe us cycling folk are just a bit more hardened to the elements?

On the other side of the spectrum, a golf course I used to play at was practically insistent on Trousers, even in summer, at midday, which is absolutely bonkers, especially on a hilly course, or carrying/ pushing clubs. Of course, they always claimed they had an option for shorts, but the effective design to meet their criteria was practically as bad as trousers, and also had to wear knee-high socks. Absolutely backwards. It came back and bit them in the **** as (like most courses) they started to drop members like flies, especially younger folk who have zero interest in golf "tradition/ etiquette". They eventually realised the member drop, and with it came the more relaxed clothing requirements, was too late by then and it's now a housing estate. It is still daft that sportswear isn't allowed on most golf courses mind.
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I remember last year going to the driving range at Stokesley with a few of the lads to blow off some steam whacking some balls about and having a catch up.
Things were going great until a woman in her late 50's came over dressed on a pink bubble gilet, white chinos and a pair of trainers that put 4 inches on her natural height and moaned at us for talking whilst she was practicing her swing. We told her that if wasn't for lads like us the driving range probably wouldn't be profitable and she only had to look outside and see the addition of the foot gold course that that was the way the club was aiming, trying to attract a younger crowd. She soon scuttled off chuntering under her breath about not coming back and returning to rockcliffe.
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
I thought Eston/Normanby were all tough?
😀
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Don't be mixing me up with that lot, I'm not a real Normanby lad. I lived in South Bank until I was seven and then went all posh and moved to Grangetown. Thinking about walking across Eston rec in a pair of shorts in the winter makes my legs go all funny. ;)

I was over the moon when we moved to Normanby aged 14 and could warm my legs on the radiators. ;)
 
Saw a bloke yesterday wearing a puffer jacket and shorts. FFS does he want to be warm or not. Make your mind up!
 
It's just people trying to copy the t-shirt plus scarf look that I popularised in the noughties. Sadly it doesn't work as there are few things more repulsive to look at than a human males nobbly knees. The only thing more gross is open toed sandals.

In hot weather I favour a pair of white linen trousers rolled up to below the knee, as favoured by that eternal icon of style Alan Whicker. It is possible for a man to be both cool and stylish without inflicting their grotesque body parts upon other travelers of the human condition
 
Randy said:
I remember last year going to the driving range at Stokesley with a few of the lads to blow off some steam whacking some balls about and having a catch up.
Things were going great until a woman in her late 50's came over dressed on a pink bubble gilet, white chinos and a pair of trainers that put 4 inches on her natural height and moaned at us for talking whilst she was practicing her swing. We told her that if wasn't for lads like us the driving range probably wouldn't be profitable and she only had to look outside and see the addition of the foot gold course that that was the way the club was aiming, trying to attract a younger crowd. She soon scuttled off chuntering under her breath about not coming back and returning to rockcliffe.
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I bet she was doing the classic thing of standing in the same position, not moving an inch after each ball, and hitting the same club 100 times in a row (probably a driver/ 3 wood). Nearly everyone does it, but anyone doing it has zero right to open their mouth to anyone, for any reason. The only thing she's practising is repetition (probably of something bad), nothing like actual golf, or a correct routine which is replicated on the course. You probably did her a favour.

She has probably never played at Rockliffe and if she did it would likely take her 150 shots, like most people with an attitude like that. They're all talk, it's not about golf, it's about trying to act like they're above people (especially the common man), I used to see it all the time. The pro's, instructors and good younger golfers are rarely like this mind, it's nearly always the old hackers. I played Rockliffe with a 15-year-old lad who, wasn't exactly dressed like a "golfer" but he took flack off me, who wasn't either. He must have had crappy comments from about 5 different people in the space of one round, went round in under 90 from the same tee's as me (good going there, I've not done it). Everyone digging at him won't have broke 100, under the actual rules of golf, probably ever. From what I saw half of them couldn't even hit it 100 yards in the air :LOL: All the gear, no idea.

Rockliffe's like 45 minutes from Stokesley too and they're complete opposite ends of the spectrum, bit of an odd alternate for her :LOL: It's like me going round the muni shooting 85, blaming the greens, not my shot dispersion, and then saying it's not as nice as Augusta :LOL:
 
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