What I love most about cycling in England through the winter is...

The cold.

Can't wait to get back into shorts. Thought the tights would have been retired by now... although they didn't come out until December last year

Getting to use my winter kit, hope it gets colder so I get a chance to wear my softshell.

I've decided I need thicker bibs, my poor knees are getting cold. Might stump for the more expensive DHB ones.

Currently loving my gore windstopper bibtights

Rapha winter biblongs and uni-qlo windproof jeans = toasty warm.

first time this year i had to don the lobster gloves for my commute..
and extra layer under my softshell, and two neck buffs

also had 3/4 bib tights
rapha winter bib tights
assos overshoes,
rapha winter hat
assos early winter gloves
oakley jawbone sunglasses
i was as snug as a bug

I think I would pass out if wore all that!

not needing to put ice into my water bottle. That said I couldn't make up my mind if I was overdressed or not, though I do know I was very slow, even by my normal slow standards.

I think I would pass out if wore all that!
i reckon i wore every piece of winter cycle clothing i own this morning.. riding was good though and nothing like i felt like on the blizzard descent of col d'iseran june 2010. brrr

watching the evenings spread out against the sky like a patient etherised upon a table on my way home

Nice!

whut ? ^^

Near-quote from T S Eliot, 'The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'.

Not many people would be complaining their Swerve jackets are too hot at the moment. :)

Nope! Mine is really coming into it's own. It's been spot on for a month or so actually. Only alteration today was popping an undershirt on, shutting the armpit vents, throwing a buff on and zipping up the neck. Plenty toasy.

1 short sleeve and 1 long sleeve merino base layer.
Gore jacket.
Rapha touring shorts, knee warmers, and for today sealskinz socks, football socks and overshoes.
Buff.
2 pairs of winter gloves.

Perfect, and I looked soooooooo cool.

Wondering how cold It's going to be over night tonight, rides planned tomorrow I want to wrap up nice and toasty.

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Actually riding.
So happy today.

Puncturing down an unlit dark lane on the way to work, changing the tube real quick then folding my pump in half before I can get any real air in it :-(

Love getting to work to half empty bike stands.

this :)