"So I call an end to it. No more ‘rules’ on what jersey you may wear, what you must look like on a bike, and how fast you can go. And, above all, no more macho posturing on the road."
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"no more macho posturing "
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Posted 10 years ago #
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I wish I was butch enough to indulge in 'macho posturing'.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Also, one of my canal commute regulars, known to me as Genial Wobbler (I think she started cycling in March) was looking splendid today. Wicker basket, upright bike and a white long-sleeved lycra cycling top under a flowery summer print dress.
Put a smile on my face. I adopt the year-round commuter kit derived from cross-country mountain biking, but I'd love to do a bit of waistcoat and shirtsleeves upright pedalling too.
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"...but I'd love to do a bit of waistcoat and shirtsleeves upright pedalling too"
I tried my commute on the uprightiest available bike wearing suity-type clothes. Sweated my face off, despite going slowly and choosing a February to try it during.
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It's graduation today and I was going to cycle in in dress and heels, but went for my Canada cycle top and shorts.
Fortuitous as it is Canada Day.
Maybe I'll go for a quick ride in full ceremonials later...
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Sweated my face off, despite going slowly and choosing a February to try it.
Perhaps I'll try an Edwardian strongman type leotard? Or for that matter a floral print cotton dress?
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"I tried my commute on the uprightiest available bike wearing suity-type clothes. Sweated my face off, despite going slowly and choosing a February to try it"
Yep, I'd love to be able to commute in my work clothes but I wouldn't want to inflict the result on my colleagues. My body thermostat must be on a different setting to the people who cycle in their suits
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I cycled all over Harare for years doing field work in flowery dresses. no probs.
Maybe you guys try to go too fast?
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"Maybe you guys try to go too fast?"
Not something I've ever been suspected of before!
I'm the same with almost any kind of physical activity, even though I'm reasonably fit. As soon as the heart rate gets above resting then I'm soaked. TMI?
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I'm like you, Stickman. I suspect I'm a little hyperhydrotic and always have been. When I started cycling again in 2006, I tried wearing ordinary clothes (well, non-lycra shorts and a t-shirt) to ride to work, but they quickly became saturated and chafed off larges areas of skin. Hence I quickly moved to lycra, which doesn't chafe and which wicks the sweat away and dries off quickly.
I wish I could cycle in ordinary clothes, but it's totally impossible.
I always like to point out to folk taking the mickey out of me for wearing lycra "when I'm not a pro or TdF rider" that it's funny that they spend hundreds on hugely expensive replica football kit & boots to do no more than have a kick-about in the local park (or indeed just to wear to show off their beer gut down the pub).
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So how do the Dutch do it? They're all hurrying to the pickled eel stall in trousers and coats and stuff.
I'd guess that because it's 'normal' over there, most people are just doubling their walking pace rather than attempting to attain their car driving pace.
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"So how do the Dutch do it?"
Edinburgh, 7 hills. It wouldn't be unusual
To have a 100 m differential between home/office depending on location of both.Amsterdam, none?. Holland as a whole is prrtty flat, I think there is one hill worth the name in the entire country near German border!
I get cold on first half of my commute to work, as it is pretty much downhill. Coming home is a different story.
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"Edinburgh, 7 hills"
Calton Hill
Castle Rock
Costorphine Hill
Craiglockhart Hills East and West
Braids Hill
Blackford Hill
Craigmillar Hill
Arthur's SeatEight or nine hills, depending on splittist/lumpist tastes. You could add Crow Hill and Whinny Hill to be totally pedalantic.
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"Eight or nine hills, depending on splittist/lumpist tastes"
According to my tastes you need to define what a hill is and the best definition in my mind is drop. For inner city hills the Tump seems best (30m drop).
That gives 10 hills, all from your list minus Craigmillar plus Salisbury Crag and Dunsapie.
Is that pedalantic enough?
Posted 10 years ago # -
I'm no expert on cameras so how did they achieve the penis-eye view© in the accompanying photograph.
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Is that pedalantic enough?
Absolutely. I just work on the basis that if it's called 'Hill' it's a hill (Castle Rock excepted) so I hadn't thought of Dunsapie at all. Salisbury Crag...I suppose it is a summit. Is Craigmillar Hill out on height or geographical grounds? It's one of my favourites.
penis-eye view©....I'd guess it's a strap-on.
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What about Piershill? Smokey Brae climbs that.
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Anyone who's ever run the Seven Hills race knows there a hill hidden in Stenhouse. It's broad and ill-defined but it isn't shy.
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I hope it's not macho posturing to mention Strava but it tells me I climb 942ft getting to work. I don't think I did that in two weeks cycling around the Netherlands, often with 20 bottles of beer on the bike.
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That man's anatomically unusual if that's a penis-eye view.
Posted 10 years ago # -
It depends how high his saddle is. Other factors are available.
Posted 10 years ago # -
I always like to point out to my brother, that Strava shows the one-way of my 7 mile commute has a greater elevation that one of his 60 mile rides around Norfolk!
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