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General Category => Freewheeling => Topic started by: Manotea on 26 September, 2010, 02:45:58 pm

Title: Winter drawers on!
Post by: Manotea on 26 September, 2010, 02:45:58 pm
The cold north wind blowing today tells me it's almost time to break out my Assos 851 Jacket.

Patience my pretty, patience...
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 September, 2010, 02:47:55 pm
I was just about to start a similar thread. 13°C and it feels a lot colder. Slate grey sky with raid drifting in the air. Dez keeps complaining that it's cold and we need the heating on. I just tell him to go for a bike ride and put on another jumper.
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: Butterfly on 26 September, 2010, 02:49:41 pm
Clarion put the heating on last night when I was sitting at the the table wearing a winter fleece, gloves and a hat :(
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: Noodley on 26 September, 2010, 02:50:19 pm
Frost on the cars this morning....
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: Wowbagger on 26 September, 2010, 02:51:02 pm
Frost on the cars this morning....

Where was that? :o
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: Polar Bear on 26 September, 2010, 02:54:11 pm
I slipped a thin Rohan merino baselayer under my YACF ls summer jersey this morning.  And, I wore full finger gloves for the first time since March.
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: clarion on 26 September, 2010, 02:59:03 pm
Clarion put the heating on last night when I was sitting at the the table wearing a winter fleece, gloves and a hat :(

I can take a hint, y'know ;)
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: eck on 26 September, 2010, 03:31:58 pm
Frost on the cars this morning....

Where was that? :o
Up here in Sunny Angus. A beautiful day for cycling, but it was so cold this morning that otherdave had two hats on to keep his baldie heid warm.  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: TimO on 26 September, 2010, 03:32:16 pm
Clarion put the heating on last night when I was sitting at the the table wearing a winter fleece, gloves and a hat :(

...and nothing else? :o

Well someone had to say it. ;D
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: Ray 6701 on 26 September, 2010, 06:27:43 pm
Yep it's getting rather chilly again, has anyone seen Autumn ???
long finger gloves, leg warmers, base layer & long sleeve jersey for this afternoons ride + bib shorts of course  :o 
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: saturn on 26 September, 2010, 07:52:09 pm
Despite the chill there did seem to be a good number of cyclists out this morning. The on or two who were wearing shorts did stand out as being strange in a best not establish eye contact sort of way  ;)
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: hellymedic on 26 September, 2010, 08:12:43 pm
I wear the same drawers all year!  ;) ;) ;D
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: andygates on 26 September, 2010, 08:34:10 pm
Time to start on the winter beard. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: Zoidburg on 26 September, 2010, 09:11:24 pm
It's down to low single figures here at night already, it's high up on the edge of the peaks though.

During the big freeze just gone it was minus 10 and snow on the ground for 2 months, Gordy down the road from me in "the lowlands" had to wait for weeks and weeks for his snow ration.

*smug*
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: citoyen on 27 September, 2010, 12:30:18 pm
On looking out of the window this morning, I pondered wearing my Endura Air Defence softshell... But I'm glad I chose not to - I would have boiled.

d.
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: mattc on 27 September, 2010, 01:14:53 pm
Yes, it's pretty nippy - but once the wind changes it should pick up again.

Predominantly SW-erlies, remember. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: cyclone on 27 September, 2010, 01:26:58 pm
Frost on the cars this morning....

Where was that? :o

SWANSEA!!!!
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: TimO on 27 September, 2010, 01:55:11 pm
Frost on the cars this morning....
Where was that? :o
SWANSEA!!!!

Ah well, if you will live that far North. ;D

I'm still commuting in shorts and mitts, although I'm wearing long sleeved jerseys, which on some days (like today) can be a bit too warm.
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: Rhys W on 27 September, 2010, 02:06:27 pm
The problem with this time of year is that it's pretty cold when I set out but warms up. Yesterday morning I had full longs, gloves and overshoes and I was comfortable. For the last hour or so before I got home at 1:30 I found myself to be rather overdressed.

Still, it was nowhere near warm enough to do a three and a half hour ride in shorts.
Title: Re: Winter drawers on!
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 29 September, 2010, 12:36:19 pm
I was just about to start a similar thread. 13°C and it feels a lot colder. Slate grey sky with raid drifting in the air. Dez keeps complaining that it's cold and we need the heating on. I just tell him to go for a bike ride and put on another jumper.
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