Wet weather gear

Move to Queensland instead 🙂

"ritcho" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Given Melbourne's bad weather, here's my take on keeping shoes and socks
dry.

1. Light drizzle: use shoe covers
2. Tropical downpour: Sock + Shopping bag + Shoe + fold remaining part
of the shopping bag over the outside of the shoe + shoe covers.

Last week we had some heavy rain - strategy 2 kept my socks and shoes
dry for the ride home. I don't like putting wet socks on...

Ritch.

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ritcho said:

Given Melbourne's bad weather, here's my take on keeping shoes and socks
dry.

1. Light drizzle: use shoe covers
2. Tropical downpour: Sock + Shopping bag + Shoe + fold remaining part
of the shopping bag over the outside of the shoe + shoe covers.

Last week we had some heavy rain - strategy 2 kept my socks and shoes
dry for the ride home. I don't like putting wet socks on...

Ritch.

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ritcho

Other things to consider:

1. take spare socks, or leave spare socks at your workplace. Borrow
someone else's newspaper, stuff your shoes full of scrunched up pages (I
find the sport section works best) and leave 'em in the sun and they'll
be dry by 5.

2. there is no such thing as a "tropical" downpour in melbourne.

T

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 at 03:23 GMT, Tamyka Bell (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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Other things to consider:

1. take spare socks, or leave spare socks at your workplace. Borrow
someone else's newspaper, stuff your shoes full of scrunched up pages (I
find the sport section works best) and leave 'em in the sun and they'll
be dry by 5.

Sun?

What sun? What they say about Melbourne having 4 seasons in one day is
a *lie*. Pure fabrication. 🙂

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ritcho said:

Given Melbourne's bad weather, here's my take on keeping shoes and socks
dry.

My wet weather strategy.

Shimano SPD sandals.

Actually, that's my dry weather strategy also. If it gets cold and wet,
then I add a pair of waterproof socks.

Evan said:

ritcho wrote:

I've found the most useful bit of wet weather gear isn't outfit bits,
but mudguards. Full plastic clip-ons have worked fine for me, tho I'm
sure alu ones are better. I can't see much serious benefit in the rear
ones that clip onto the seatpost. They might stop the back-stripe, but
they still let thru the lower-body tangential wheel-spray.

It might be just me, given the choice of getting drenched in
- (relatively) clean meteoric water, and
- wheel-sprayed road water full of dirt, oil, metal-dust & so on,
I'd chose the former every time.

My low-budget wet weather strategy is, in order of importance
* mud-guards
* a woolen jumper (warm when wet) under the, ahem, showerproof jacket
* cheapo $ 40 waterproof jacket (XXXL but trimmed at the front)

You still get wet (tho clean) feet with this. I've also got booties.
Booties (or plastic bags!) are great. Wet upper-body - copeable with.
Wet sloshy feet - catch the train home, or just drive to work %-P .

It would be really cool if some bike-wear co would make waterproof
thingies you wear just over the top side of your arms and thighs. With
guards, a jumper and booties, they're the only places that get
annoyingly wet in rain.

Oh yes. A plastic bag for your walman is a must, too...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Given Melbourne's bad weather, here's my take on keeping shoes and socks
dry.

My wet weather strategy.

Shimano SPD sandals.

Actually, that's my dry weather strategy also. If it gets cold and wet,
then I add a pair of waterproof socks.

Eeew! Socks and sandals!

AAAAAAAAA... [flashback to St Matthews Primary, Canberra, and Sister
Mary Pius X telling me I could either wear uniform sandals, or uniform
sock and shoes, but *not* socks and sandals] ...AAAAAAAAARRGH ...

<later, feeling better now>

[censored]
p

"ritcho" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Given Melbourne's bad weather, here's my take on keeping shoes and socks
dry.

1. Light drizzle: use shoe covers
2. Tropical downpour: Sock + Shopping bag + Shoe + fold remaining part
of the shopping bag over the outside of the shoe + shoe covers.

Last week we had some heavy rain - strategy 2 kept my socks and shoes
dry for the ride home. I don't like putting wet socks on...

Ritch.
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ritcho

It's not so bad after the first minute or so.....here's my take.....wear
what you would normally wear in the dry....go hard, get wet, put wet gear
back on at end of day, go hard, get wetter, get home, get dry.

Sounds like you need to crack open a couple of cans of 'harden up' before
the trip home (sorta like red bull only better).....hehehe.

Ride On,

Gags

fred nieman said:

I've found the most useful bit of wet weather gear isn't outfit bits,
but mudguards. Full plastic clip-ons have worked fine for me, tho I'm
sure alu ones are better. I can't see much serious benefit in the rear
ones that clip onto the seatpost. They might stop the back-stripe, but
they still let thru the lower-body tangential wheel-spray.

Absolutely.

I was in Clarence St Cyclery yesterday, they have
packaged up some hybrids into 'commuter' bikes. But
they only had a front clip-on (short) mudguard, nothing
on the back (and their ortlieb panniers weren't clipped
to the rack properly).

IMHO to keep your feet dry you must have full
front mudguards. Not only this, but perhaps even
a mudflap (like the furry animal-print ones cheeky
monkey sell).

I find that if I hit slightly deeper water, it still
can stream up into my shoes. I reckon a mudflap would
stop this. I find rain only makes your shoes wet/damp
but this kind of water stream fills them up like buckets.

So mudguards definately, and maybe flaps too, at least on
the front. Our touring bikes have the 'guards painted
the same colour as the frame (dark metallic blue), looks
good.

-kt

Evan said:

My wet weather strategy.

Shimano SPD sandals.

Actually, that's my dry weather strategy also. If it gets cold and wet,
then I add a pair of waterproof socks.

me too!

Note, the original post was tropical downpour = warm and wet, no need for socks.

"Gags" <gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au

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Sounds like you need to crack open a couple of cans of 'harden up' before
the trip home (sorta like red bull only better).....hehehe.

Do you really want to 'harden up' in lycra, in public?

hippy couldn't resist

hippy said:

"Gags" <gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au

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Sounds like you need to crack open a couple of cans of 'harden up' before
the trip home (sorta like red bull only better).....hehehe.

Do you really want to 'harden up' in lycra, in public?

hippy couldn't resist

Someone sounds like they've had experience here....

:-P

"Tamyka Bell" <[email hidden]

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hippy said:

"Gags" <gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au

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Sounds like you need to crack open a couple of cans of 'harden up'

before

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the trip home (sorta like red bull only better).....hehehe.

Do you really want to 'harden up' in lycra, in public?

hippy couldn't resist

Someone sounds like they've had experience here....

'hard'ly.. but I've been offered a can of Harden Up
by Gags before so I thought I'd warn others about
potential drawbacks :-)

always been 'ard hippy
"oooh ah i broke a nail!!!"

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hippy said:

"Gags" <gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au
> Sounds like you need to crack open a couple of cans of 'harden up'

before

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> the trip home (sorta like red bull only better).....hehehe.

Do you really want to 'harden up' in lycra, in public?

hippy couldn't resist

Someone sounds like they've had experience here....

'hard'ly.. but I've been offered a can of Harden Up
by Gags before so I thought I'd warn others about
potential drawbacks :-)

always been 'ard hippy
"oooh ah i broke a nail!!!"

"It's just a banana.....I'm doin a long ride and ran out of room in the back
of the jersey....honest!!!"

Gags said:

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"It's just a banana.....I'm doin a long ride and ran out of room in the back
of the jersey....honest!!!"

I jumped on my bike the other day and headed out for a long ride with
the gang and wondered WTF are all these pouches and pockets and stuff
for? Then I realised that it was from winter long rides in BrisVegas.
Once I started doing 140km rides, I needed to carry all the good stuff:
2 tubes, levers, multitool, etc etc., as well as enough food for several
hours. So all the gear went under my seat where I could forget about it,
and I shoved the food in my jersey.

But being in Brissie, by the end of the ride it was so damn hot that I
needed spots for arm warmers, leg warmers, vest, fleece gloves, (and a
jacket if it had been cold and wet but some roadies taught me about
newspaper for in the dry). So all that stuff got tucked into my jersey
and then it was impossible to get any food out of my jersey so I needed
to get the lunchbox on my bike, which is a socially acceptable
alternative to a banana in the front of one's pants... So now it's
almost summer, I get on the bike before dawn in the bare minimum of
clothing and wonder what to put in all those pouches...

T

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hippy said:

"Gags" <gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au

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Sounds like you need to crack open a couple of cans of 'harden up' before
the trip home (sorta like red bull only better).....hehehe.

Do you really want to 'harden up' in lycra, in public?

hippy couldn't resist

Someone sounds like they've had experience here....

:-P

Did this http://www.thehippy.net/nucleus/index.php?itemid=138 have something to do with it?

Parbs

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hippy said:

"Gags" <gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au
> Sounds like you need to crack open a couple of cans of 'harden up'

before

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

> the trip home (sorta like red bull only better).....hehehe.

Do you really want to 'harden up' in lycra, in public?

hippy couldn't resist

Someone sounds like they've had experience here....

:-P

Did this http://www.thehippy.net/nucleus/index.php?itemid=138 have

something to do with it?

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Parbs

Hmm...
A few weeks ago I was out in the bush with a few friends on mountain bikes
and we stumbled across a guy hurriedly throwing some stuff into his ute. As
we got closer we saw that it was a life size blow up doll!

Marty

Marty said:

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hippy wrote:
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> "Gags" <gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au
> > Sounds like you need to crack open a couple of cans of 'harden up'

before

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> > the trip home (sorta like red bull only better).....hehehe.
>
> Do you really want to 'harden up' in lycra, in public?
>
> hippy couldn't resist

Someone sounds like they've had experience here....

:-P

Did this http://www.thehippy.net/nucleus/index.php?itemid=138 have

something to do with it?

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Parbs

Hmm...
A few weeks ago I was out in the bush with a few friends on mountain bikes
and we stumbled across a guy hurriedly throwing some stuff into his ute. As
we got closer we saw that it was a life size blow up doll!

Marty

You'd think he could've just used one of his farm animals...

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> hippy wrote:
> >
> > "Gags" <gags_44nospamatnospamtpg.com.au
> > > Sounds like you need to crack open a couple of cans of 'harden
> > > up'

before

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> > > the trip home (sorta like red bull only better).....hehehe.
> >
> > Do you really want to 'harden up' in lycra, in public?
> >
> > hippy couldn't resist
>
> Someone sounds like they've had experience here....
>
> :-P

Did this http://www.thehippy.net/nucleus/index.php?itemid=138 have

something to do with it?

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Parbs

Hmm...
A few weeks ago I was out in the bush with a few friends on mountain
bikes
and we stumbled across a guy hurriedly throwing some stuff into his ute.
As
we got closer we saw that it was a life size blow up doll!

Marty

You'd think he could've just used one of his farm animals...

I hope he keeps a puncture kit when it goes down on him hehehe
DJ

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 at 23:07 GMT, Parbs (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

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Did this http://www.thehippy.net/nucleus/index.php?itemid=138 have something to do with it?

Damn! Reward for braving Glenferrie Rd?

I spend enough time there, why doesn't this happen to me?

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Bugger you guys.
The babelfish is idempotent on the set above.

I'm afraid that isn't a very good pickup line either, Tim. - MaryG

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Hmm...
A few weeks ago I was out in the bush with a few friends on mountain
bikes
and we stumbled across a guy hurriedly throwing some stuff into his
ute. As
we got closer we saw that it was a life size blow up doll!

You'd think he could've just used one of his farm animals...

I hope he keeps a puncture kit when it goes down on him hehehe

Isn't he supposed to go down... oh, never mind.

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