I don't much like the R4 'guest editor' thing, and was a bit skeptical when I heard tag Bradley Wiggins would be on. But amused to hear that he'll be speaking to !another famous cyclist - Jeremy Corbyn'.
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Wiggins AND Corbyn
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Jeremy Corbyn tells Bradley Wiggins he enjoys 'pressure'
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JC relaxes by making jam. Now I make jam but I do not find it relaxing. Satisfying but not relaxing
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the Steve Hilton interview - presumably added for 'balance' - is what really rankled. idiot claimed you shouldn't cycle in a suit. what a complete waste of space.
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@SRD
I have never cycled and will never cycle in a suit. In fact I invite CCE to shoot me down like a rabid dog if I'm ever observed cycling in a suit.
I make the following non-normative proposition;
Bicycles are for feeling childish on. Suits are for feeling grown up in.
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I wonder if wiggo every cycles in a suit...
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I have cycled in a suit. Also jacket and trousers. No big deal. Most old fellas used to cycle to work in their suits. Back when suits were suits. Wiggo will have some nice mod suits but he will cycle in Rapha due to contractual stipulations
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At least suits tend to come with two pairs of trousers - ideal for cyclists, I would have thought
I will never cycle in a skirt. But that's because I never wear skirts.
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I'll probably be cycling in a suit in a couple of years' time if our office moves to Haymarket. Cooncil better get its E-W segregated lanes in place by then as I could see myself cruising along those at a suitably sedate pace. If not, I'm afraid I'll not be able to resist giving it some beans in order to feel safe in about the motor vehicles, which will not be a good look/smell.
I reckon wearing a suit on a bike could be pretty swish. Might require a matching fedora or a pair of those retro sunglasses that seem to be all the rage at the moment.
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Good suits often do come with the extra trousers. I nearly bought a trilby today in the arcade in Bedford. Just made me look about fifty years old, slight LKJ thing which I liked but also little bit like the guy reggie or is it Ronnie off the antiques road show, who I like but not enough. Trilby might stay on better than a fedora. When cycling? I am apparently busted for cycling into Edinburgh Xmas eve in a tam o shanter (road from Balerno to slateford was where I was spotted, then went up the developer's street to the canal. Roads quiet but shocking to spot your father/husband cycling in a woolly hat instead of a polystyrene one.). I think PS should cycle in a pinstripe suit. My colleague who sat next to me for five years but has now retired cycled every day in a pinstripe suit from leckies of Falkirk. He was size 36 chest so could pick the suits up cheaply. The ones he cycled in any way. Leckies have sold their emporium and it is no longer the shop it was.
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I wouldn't rule out cycling in a skirt. I wouldn't rule it in either.
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IWRATS - my one decent suit, a Paul Smith number picked up for half price a few years ago, has lovely lined trousers. Feels very luxurious when cycling. Only ever worn it on the bike a couple of times though - could never forgive myself if I came off the bike and wrecked it or contrived to get it covered in oil. (Yes, yes - chain case, Dutch bike etc. - all fine if you don't regularly have to cycle up the hill at Myreside).
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I have a short commute so wear my work clothes - woollen trousers in the colder months, dress and tights in the warmer ones. The beauty of the dress and tights is that if you get oil on the tights a new pair only costs a couple of quid.
When cycling to work was a normal activity men would wear suits.
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"When cycling to work was a normal activity men would wear suits."
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Regarding IWRATS' original invitation, do you think a New Year's Day 'fox hunt' with IWRATS (in suit) as a fox, chased down by CCE forumites in suitable hunting gear - all bicycle mounted of course - would take off?
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@sallyhinch
What a fantastic idea. I've got visions of me shaking off the pursuing MTBers on the Kaimes Road climb before shaking off the the roadies in the woods on Costorphine Hill only to be torn to pieces by a mixed bag of recumbents and tagalong-towing small-wheel tandems on Ravelston Dykes. My chain snipped off and used to daub grease on the faces of children on their first hunt....
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"I reckon wearing a suit on a bike could be pretty swish. Might require a matching fedora..."
In January, on an uprightish bike, going slowly, but still exceedingly Sweaty.
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Back in the day, my school work experience fortnight was in June. I secured an office based placement 3 miles from home.
Wearing my Brother's thick woollen suit I set off each morning trying desperately not to sweat by willpower alone but not leaving early enough to take it steady.
Needless to say I failed...
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"When cycling to work was a normal activity men would wear suits."
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Chap in bowler has Pashley guvnor, still available for £900
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I cycle to work in a suit all the time. Some of my suits have skirts and some have trousers. Skirts are more convenient because you don't have to clip them out of the way. All you have to do is make sure the skirt is suitable for cycling in. And you have to try it on anyway because you don't know if it will fit otherwise <insert lengthly rant about buying women's clothes here>.
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All clothes must be like that. Most trousers seem barely capable of being worn for standing still, never mind walking or sitting or climbing stairs. Shirts and suit jackets are only designed for people who never raise their arms above shoulder height.
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"Most trousers seem barely capable of being worn for standing still"
What happens to them? Do they burst into flames? Fall to bits? Explode?
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They permit little movement, if any. They punish attempts to move significantly with constriction and creaks of seams.
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That's what you sacrifice for the sake of fashion. If one is prepared to wear clothes which are not on trend, one can move in comfort...
The gift of middle age is no longer having to worry about looking fashionable. :-)
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@Crowriver - that might work for men, but for women it's very hard to find clothes *anywhere* which are not 'on trend'. <adds to Fimm's lengthy rant about buying clothes for women>
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@crowriver Didn't work for light office-trousers (whose rare purchase was driven by necessity, when I had to wear them); I am deeply indifferent to fashion, but when buying new clothes the existence of cloth-trends are generally forced upon you. There was no alternative to office-trousers unless I wish to be baked (chinos only come in heavy) or had sufficiently few meetings to sneak about in my baggy flaxen employment-breeks.
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MC Hammer got good movement in his trousers?
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