Showers

• 2 - what is wrong with you people? bit of roll on round the hairy parts and it's ok - I'm self cleaning anyway
  

There is another answer to this conundrum of course - get fitter. The fitter you are, the less you sweat for a given output. I go pretty fast on my commute but I don't break into a sweat because I'm not really pushing it that hard.

Shower in the morning, steady roll into work, top-up on the hygiene routine when you get to work (baby wipes/efficient German use of a towel/balls in the sink/whatever), go about your day. Am I missing something?

Oh yes, HTFU. :)

Where loads of layers, the trapped in sweat steam irons your shirt after it's been ragged up in a rucksack. Half a tube of Lynx Africa..... erm.... that's it. Did me for 4 years.

Whore's bath, FTW.

There is another answer to this conundrum of course - get fitter. The fitter you are, the less you sweat for a given output. I go pretty fast on my commute but I don't break into a sweat because I'm not really pushing it that hard.

Excessive Sweating While Exercising Means You’re Not Fit
In fact, it's just the opposite. Sweating during exercise is a sign of an efficient cooler. An athlete who has adapted to keep the body core cool during exercise will shunt blood to the skin’s surface more quickly and release heat from the body. At the same time, the sweat glands increase their output and thus cool the body during sweat evaporation. While fit people produce more sweat than sedentary folks, they lose less sodium, because more of it is reabsorbed by the body. The result is a more efficient cooler.
http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/conditioning/a/aa052001a.htm

There is another answer to this conundrum of course - get fitter. The fitter you are, the less you sweat for a given output. I go pretty fast on my commute but I don't break into a sweat because I'm not really pushing it that hard.

I'm pretty sure its the opposite, the fitter you are the more efficiently your body adjust to its ideal temperature (eg/; sweating to lose heat) so you sweat more, keeping yr body at the ideal temperature, feeling more confortable basically. not sure where i read it tho

there you go, hippy put it in a more clear way

In that case, the gigantic ginger woman who's kid is in the same class as my son must be a supreme athlete. The amount of sweat gathering in her fuzzy top lip never ceases to amaze me, and the sheer quantity of perspiration gushing between her huge tits makes Angel Falls look like a knackered tap.
Fuck knows what happens in the bedroom.

take your work clothes, ie shirts etc in on a monday by tube, then ride in the rest of the week.This means every night you only have to carry a shirt and empty lunch box home every night.
I managed a restaurant in the West End and did this for 8 months......

Who are these magical people who can ride 10 miles, carrying a bag, without sweating?

.... 1 here.

Good anti persperant / Roll-on, towell for legs and or feet / wipes for face / hair stuff / manfume.

It's all about the shower before cycling, merino clothes and taking off layers as soon as you are warm. job done.

We have showers at work; plenty of them and have recently doubled the number. Partners get given fresh towels every day. Mere mortals do not. Cleanliness being next to godliness, partners here are pretty high up.

I sweat like a charver on 4 Dennis the Menaces me.....

We have showers at work; plenty of them and have recently doubled the number. Partners get given fresh towels every day. Mere mortals do not. Cleanliness being next to godliness, partners here are pretty high up.

I hear they got the showers just for you, Cliveo.

The rumour is that after half a mile of riding you smell like an abattoir.

take your work clothes, ie shirt in on a monday by bike, then ride in the rest of the week.This means every night you only have to carry a shirt on Friday

Fixed. Oh combine this with a 10 mile each way commute at HR 145 and no showers at work lol. Possibly two shirts in the summer.

Wet washcloth, dry cotton baby traditional diaper gauze, spray deodorant.

Shave armpits. Shave hair.

Cool of 15 mins before change, read your mail.

Change top part only, unless you need/want special pants for riding/work. No ones sniffing you below waist anyway.

You need carrying capacity. My geared commuter has always Nelson Longflap and the fixie has a rack and a pannier hardwired. If you're real smart, you stuff the bag one day and go without the other. Or maybe you need to buy a touring bike for cloth hauling days? (Are you in the market for excuses for getting more bikes?)

I do it TT style or take the scenic route which has climbs == sweat. But washcloth solution keeps the smell in check, trust me.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/02/give-up-washing-showering

We have showers at work, but for some reason I find the idea of showering at work deeply odd.

Showering at work is odd, I mean, it like washing up your dishes at your local restaurant.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/nov/02/give-up-washing-showering

Great quote in one of the comments; "My dad doesn't use deoderant, and my mum has got used to it. He fucking reeks."

When i was eight years old and first went to boarding school, we had three baths every fortnight scheduled into our school life. We washed in a sink after sport. As we go older, and times became more modern, we showered after sport and daily in any even whether we needed it or not. We did wear swimming trunks in the showers for fear of pedastry.

Back in the 1960s, I remember my father going for a bath every Sunday evening while listening to "Sing Something Simple" on the Light Programme (and then Radio 2). In the mid 1970s, when I started work, I recall going into meeting rooms filled with men who did not use deoderant. The long hot summer of 1976 was a real hummer.

Today things have improved. I have only twice had to speak to subordinates about their odour issues and not once in the past seven or eight years.

Rag on a stick.

Showering at work is odd, I mean, it like washing up your dishes at your local restaurant.

I have to confess that when I first stripped off for a shower at work, I felt uncomfortable. Taking my clothes off is not something that i usually do in the office but I felt it inappropriate to keep them on to shower.

Now I am used to it ~~ and regulariliy take my clothes off even when not showering~~.

You only forget to lock the shower door at work once.

Trufax.