Help with shorts/jeans alternative... for a lycra virgin

Lolo speaks the truth.

CrazyJames will be DJ Spandex. :)

Very good, James. Now to finance the bib tights I imagine you'll have to sell off the wheels, hand grips and the lockring on your Roadrat, trading them in for a temporary set of wheels that you'll sell again when you get paid again, only to trade them in for a new winter baselayer, which you'll then need to sell in the spring to be able to buy new tyres for the trick bike, right? This will all become academic when, upon buying a new road bike, you'll need to sell everything else. Tee-hee.

Haha, nah I really love the Roadrat, its really...dare I say it....practical?!
Its not going anywhere for a while :)
Plus i've got loads of upper body base layers and one lower body one already from all my snowboarding i've done, so i'm sorted in that department, however the potential roadbike purchase is looming on the Horizon.....but I doubt I will get anything until next summer now.

but I doubt I will get anything until next summer now.

Quoted for posterity. :)

Haha, I'll give him until January actually!

Good luck with the lyrca!

I would know, I tell when you are being a sexual deviant, I know the signs.

Not everyone has mapped my pheromones the way you (so lovingly) have.

man just go for a full lycra suit.....Everyman should wear lycra its lush!!! I practically live in the stuff!!

I love the winter because it gives me even more chances to wear the spandex!! :-)

Who gives a Fook what others think!!!!

Thermo roubaix 3/4 lengths and if you want extra coverage some 3/4length trousers or the rapha touring shorts.

Hope it fits over his huge thighs! :)

Status report:

Bib tights are sooooo comfy, I don't think i'm ever going to wear jeans on my bike again, never been so warm dry and comfortable.....lovely :)

Thermo roubaix 3/4 lengths .

+1

any more than this and you're no longer a real man.

just got the swrve 3/4 and they're amazing, just did 35 miles in them. contemplated getting some padded shorts but doubt I'll be needing them now. When winter comes in i'm gonna get some knee high socks or if it gets silly cold some long johns.

I don't wear 3/4 lengths because I have a huge skin graft scar on my lower right leg that needs protecting from the cold/getting scuffed on things, otherwise it cracks and gets fucked as it doesn't get as much circulation as my normal skin....er yeah, so that's why I went for normal full length ones.

Status report:

Bib tights are sooooo comfy, I don't think i'm ever going to wear jeans on my bike again, never been so warm dry and comfortable.....lovely :)

It's worth it looking like a dog's dinner, eh? ;P

If you ride in jeans, wear cycling padded pants undreneath or at least some lycra trunks of the sport variety (for runners or gymnasts). They do dry quickly.

http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/src/lfgss/product-Endura-Endura-Gents-Coolmax-Boxer--Black-17273.htm

I repeat this.

Some may find it offensive - they're very thin and tight trunks

I'm kidding. It would be TMI anyway.

I use a pair of Ex-US Army Gore tex over trousers rolled up a bit.. they have a double crotch and ass, costy about £25 and have lasted for about 3 years so far with 2 reproofings. Will do another few years still I expect. I guess Camo isn't so sensible for riding in the dark but hey, I'm pretty observant when I'm not drunk.

This thread is better without pictures.

ha, indeedeee oliver

Re-proofing? How? Any experience on how that works for softshells?

Easy, Nikwax TX-direct :)