Trouser recommendation please

Richard Bates said:

Can anybody recommend some trousers which are suitable for cycling in
(i.e. don't have loose flappy ankles, are cut higher at the rear) but
which do not make me stick out like a sore thumb as a lycra-clad prat
when browsing the shops?

If you're just going for a browse around the shops just wear whatever
trousers you'd wear to walk. If the chain isn't guarded either tuck
trousers into socks while on bike, hitch up shin or get some trouser
clips (now available in natty reflective flavour). IMHO not really
worth getting into special clothes (and the expense incurred) just for
short trips.

Pete.
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Richard Bates said:

Can anybody recommend some trousers which are suitable for cycling in
(i.e. don't have loose flappy ankles, are cut higher at the rear) but
which do not make me stick out like a sore thumb as a lycra-clad prat
when browsing the shops?

Gill and Endura both make trousers that have velco fastenings around
the ankle and also you can detatch the lower half on hot days should
you so wish. Wiggle have these - www.wiggle.co.uk

in message <[email hidden]>, Richard Bates

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Can anybody recommend some trousers which are suitable for cycling in
(i.e. don't have loose flappy ankles, are cut higher at the rear) but
which do not make me stick out like a sore thumb as a lycra-clad prat
when browsing the shops?

I have some Altura waterproof overtrousers. They're OK, but not
wonderful if you're cycling fast. Lycra longs with waterproof fronts
and breathable backs are better, if you don't mind the look.

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or I often wear a pair of breathable waterproof hiking gaitors over my
trousers thus protecting them and keeping stuff off the chainwheel etc.
TerryJ

Simon Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, Richard Bates

(') said:

Can anybody recommend some trousers which are suitable for cycling in
(i.e. don't have loose flappy ankles, are cut higher at the rear) but
which do not make me stick out like a sore thumb as a lycra-clad prat
when browsing the shops?

I have some Altura waterproof overtrousers. They're OK, but not
wonderful if you're cycling fast. Lycra longs with waterproof fronts
and breathable backs are better, if you don't mind the look.

That is exactly what I'm trying to avoid - The Look. I'm after
something comfy and practical but normal looking.

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On 21/12/04 12:29 pm, in article [email hidden],

Richard Bates said:

Simon Brooke said:

in message <[email hidden]>, Richard Bates

(') said:

Can anybody recommend some trousers which are suitable for cycling in
(i.e. don't have loose flappy ankles, are cut higher at the rear) but
which do not make me stick out like a sore thumb as a lycra-clad prat
when browsing the shops?

I have some Altura waterproof overtrousers. They're OK, but not
wonderful if you're cycling fast. Lycra longs with waterproof fronts
and breathable backs are better, if you don't mind the look.

That is exactly what I'm trying to avoid - The Look. I'm after
something comfy and practical but normal looking.

I have some spring type cycle clips that I haven't seen anywhere else, ever.
They are a spring with reflective bits that wrap round whatever trousers you
happen to be wearing. Much better than anything else.

...d

Richard Bates <[email hidden]>typed

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That is exactly what I'm trying to avoid - The Look. I'm after
something comfy and practical but normal looking.

Ordinary trousers[1] and LONG socks into which you can tuck your trouser leg.

[1] M&S Active Fit Chinos f'rexample?

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Quoted message said:

If you're just going for a browse around the shops just wear whatever
trousers you'd wear to walk. If the chain isn't guarded either tuck
trousers into socks while on bike, hitch up shin or get some trouser
clips (now available in natty reflective flavour). IMHO not really
worth getting into special clothes (and the expense incurred) just for
short trips.

While I agree in principle it is worth checking the 'shine' on the back of
any pair of M&S/BHS/Matalan trousers -- I found an embarrassingly large hole
had appeared rather suddenly in a pair recently. Now I know what is meant
by 'his [censored] was hanging out of his trousers' -- distinctly chilly!!

T

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Ordinary trousers[1] and LONG socks into which you can tuck your trouser

leg.

Long socks are the work of Stan

Tony W said:

Long socks are the work of Stan

Abd not really necessary: a spot of Masonic cycling is quite all right
to get from A to B in Normal Clothes.

Pete.
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Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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Long socks are the work of Stan

Abd not really necessary: a spot of Masonic cycling is quite all right
to get from A to B in Normal Clothes.

Why would you think it necessary to bear your left [censored] and hold the
handlebars in a strange embrace?

T

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Ordinary trousers[1] and LONG socks into which you can tuck your trouser

leg.

Long socks are the work of Stan

Fortunately my local shop has started selling them again - for a while,
fashion meant it was getting jolly hard to get a decent pair of long socks
easily.

long socks are great :-)

cheers,
clive

"Clive George" <[email hidden]>typed

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long socks are great :-)

M&S sell them too[1] (my local Edgware store sells them although it's
not huge and ove half the floor space is food)

[1] Wool rich, £6

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Peter Clinch said:

Abd not really necessary: a spot of Masonic cycling is quite all right
to get from A to B in Normal Clothes.

No need to drag Simon into this.

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Helen Deborah Vecht of said:

Richard Bates <[email hidden]>typed

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That is exactly what I'm trying to avoid - The Look. I'm after
something comfy and practical but normal looking.

Ordinary trousers[1] and LONG socks into which you can tuck your trouser leg.

Or ordinary socks, and a pair of Aldi yellow reflective bands with flashing
red LEDs for after dark.
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long socks are

the Work of Stan

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great :-)

:~(

David Martin said:

On 21/12/04 12:29 pm, in article [email hidden],
"Richard Bates" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:16:38 +0000, Simon Brooke
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in message <[email hidden]>, Richard Bates
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> Can anybody recommend some trousers which are suitable for cycling in
> (i.e. don't have loose flappy ankles, are cut higher at the rear) but
> which do not make me stick out like a sore thumb as a lycra-clad prat
> when browsing the shops?

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

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I have some Altura waterproof overtrousers. They're OK, but not
wonderful if you're cycling fast. Lycra longs with waterproof fronts
and breathable backs are better, if you don't mind the look.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

That is exactly what I'm trying to avoid - The Look. I'm after
something comfy and practical but normal looking.

Quoted message said:

I have some spring type cycle clips that I haven't seen anywhere else, ever.
They are a spring with reflective bits that wrap round whatever trousers you
happen to be wearing. Much better than anything else.

A tip passed on to me by my grandfather was that if you've forgotten
your bike clips you can tuck your trousers into your socks.

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Clive George said:

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"Helen Deborah Vecht" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Ordinary trousers[1] and LONG socks into which you can tuck your trouser

leg.

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Long socks are the work of Stan

Quoted message said:

Fortunately my local shop has started selling them again - for a while,
fashion meant it was getting jolly hard to get a decent pair of long socks
easily.

Fashion moves so fast these days. When I were a young lad, when a pair
of shoes wore out, I'd say to meself, "Those were good shoes, I'll get
another pair of them", and there they would be, on the shelf in the
same shop. Nowadays you're lucky if they haven't changed the fashion
on you by the time your socks have worn out, and as for going to get
the same pair of shoes, forget the shoes, you're lucky if the shoe
shop hasn't turned into a sandwich bar.

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Chris Malcolm said:

A tip passed on to me by my grandfather was that if you've forgotten
your bike clips you can tuck your trousers into your socks.

Unless you are "nobody" in which case you tuck them into only two of
your three socks ;-)

Tony