Let's see your Biker Tan!

[RolliePollie]

I'm sure there are others out there with similarly strange biker's tan lines...let's see 'em!

I'm kinda proud of my weird tan lines, but these glove tan lines are ridiculous :eek: I do wear sunscreen but evidently I need more SPF. And yes, I know I have very hairy arms...thank heavens it's blonde! I was going to include a picture of my shorts tan line too, but the pictures I took of my thighs were really unattractive.

Anyone else out there with weird tan lines to share?

[CarbonCandy]

This thread brings me back to one of my all time favorite ads..


http://bonebell.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/muscle_hpage_big.jpg

[crazycanuck]

How can one get a biker tan when one normally cycles in the dark at this time of year?

When is summer coming to Aust again?

[jaydee]

Mid-winter here - knocking the ice off the deck in the morning. Only goosebumps - no tan:eek:

[wolfak]

This thread brings me back to one of my all time favorite ads..


http://bonebell.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/muscle_hpage_big.jpg

That was so funny! Also, I've had the glove tan in the past, and have a less severe one this year. I also used to have the small brown dot on the back of the hand from the little hole where the wrist strap leaves you exposed. My friend Kim one year after RAGRAI had a speckled tan from mesh-backed gloves. And people that wear the cycling sandals? They have fairly freaky foot tans.

Right now I'm sporting a 3 stage farmer tan on my arms. Here's how it goes: Forearms dark brown to 2-inches above elbow where sleeved jersey/unisex t-shirt comes, next two inches are slightly less brown from wearing a women's shorter sleeve tee, then slightly reddened area from there to shoulder from wearing sleeveless items. It's damned hot. I'll see if I can find a picture!

[Grits]

We are going on a beach vacation next week, and I find myself actually applying self tanner just to the pale part above my knees in an attempt to even things out before I put myself out there in my swim suit! Oh, vanity.

Lori

[kfergos]

I don't have any pics, but my glove tan is like yours, only perhaps a tad darker, and you can also see it on my fingers. My thighs have the top-of-the-knee to partway up my thigh tan, complimented by a nice deep tan only on the back of my legs, terminating (of course) at my sock line. I like to think of it as a "real" tan, which you get by being outside in the sun a lot, as opposed to the "fake" perfectly-golden-marshmallow tans people get in a tanning salon. A glove-tan story:

Sitting at work chatting with a coworker, I gestured and my coworker suddenly gasped: "Oh my gosh, what's wrong with your hands?!" I looked at them, leprously white against the darker tan of my arms. "Nothing," I said, and he cottoned on: "You mean that's your glove tan?" he gasped. And then he almost collapsed laughing!

[lph]

Here's mine. I've been trying to even things out by wearing a bikini as much as possible in the hot summer sun here, but with limited success - I still look like I've got legs grafted on from someone else :p

(I just scored a point against my dh in the game we were playing ;))

[amy]

I actually am a fanatic when it comes to sunscreen lately, so I don't have any major tan lines... a little on the thighs. But I actually hesitated this weekend when I was putting on the sunscreen and thought I'd like a crazy biker tan, and maybe I wouldn't apply it.

Is that sick?

[7rider]

I actually am a fanatic when it comes to sunscreen lately, so I don't have any major tan lines... a little on the thighs. But I actually hesitated this weekend when I was putting on the sunscreen and thought I'd like a crazy biker tan, and maybe I wouldn't apply it.

Is that sick?

Is it kind of like...."What would happen if I touch this hot stove....for just a teensy second??" :cool::D

Well, okay. Maybe not.

[kie_fujo]

my husband's gloves are mesh...i wish i had a pic of his tan lines. they are hilarious cause you can see the print of the mesh!!

[hirakukibou]

Well, I have a weird pattern on my back. My partner calls it my crop-circle tan.

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd209/kotoridesigns/IMG_0922.jpg

Love handles and all :D

[CarbonCandy]

^^Thats what mine looked like last summer! I took my shirt off, and my boyfriend freaked out. He thought it was a giant bruise!

[shootingstar]

This was last year's photo of self in black dress. But seems like I repeat the same old tan line...watch on arm, etc.

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showthread.php?t=23707&highlight=black+dress&page=2

I actually don't wear sleeveless tops when I cycle nor tops that show much of my top chest (not that I much up there anyway) or cut-outs in back. Have been cycling for many years now.

STrange as it may seem to many people who want a beautiful overall tan or as much tan as poss8ble, I now want to preserve the softness and smoothness of skin areas normally not exposed to the sun. I tan naturally very well, almost too well. Anyway what faint tan do I need anyway. That's my natural skin colour even in winter.

cycling lots does give one a tan...whether or not you want it...despite loads of sunblock. For me, now when I see people lying out sunbathing....it has no appeal to me anymore. When I was cycling in Hawaii, when I got off the bike by a beach, first place I went for...was the palm tree shade.

[gnat23]

Last year's evidence just before it hit leg-warmer season:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1110/1433598002_3b154cdf9b_m.jpg

-- gnat! (this year I've actually spent time in a bikini, and the lines aren't as dramatic!)

[GLC1968]

I'm a little freaked out this year because my hands are tan for once. I've given up most summer biking for farming...so my hands are tan (I hate wearing gloves in the garden).

Last summer, I bought a big silver cuff bracelet to wear on my right arm and with my huge watch on my left - it somewhat hid the massive transition from brown arm to white hands. It was super obvious - people in the grocery stores used to comment on it. :eek:

Now I have the proverbial red neck! I chopped off all my hair a few weeks ago and after a weekend of working outside, my neck is bright red, my shoulders/arms are red (including my hands) and my body/legs are super white. In fact, for the first time since I started riding, I can only faintly make out the tan line on my thighs. It's finally fading after about 9 months of no riding in the sun (or with bare legs).

[arielmoon]

Yup I have the same back tan as hirakukibou, hands are pale and my legs look like gnat23's. I look riduculous in a bathing suit. I laid out a few times to try and even things out and now I have a slight bikini line too. *head desk*

[Andrea]

My legs match my arms...

http://blog.brickhouseracing.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/dsc_5711.jpg

[Eden]

this is even with sunscreen and a very late start to shorts season up here this year...

the arms look much like the legs, but are much harder for me to take a photo of by myself..... My tan is so uneven, I don't even bother to try to get rid of the lines. I think the backs of my arms are the darkest part - or more specifically the back of my right arm.... Strangely enough, even though I usually wear gloves, my hands, though less tan than my arms don't look that weird. I used to get a dark tanned circle on the back of my hands (my gloves don't have a hole anymore....) I used to get the what's wrong with your hands! all of the time.

[KerryCrow]

my husband's gloves are mesh...i wish i had a pic of his tan lines. they are hilarious cause you can see the print of the mesh!!


Many years ago I used to wear those mesh gloves....so I know exactly what you are talking about. My coworkers used to make fun of me. One time, as I was moving on to a new work assignment, they "roasted" me. Part of the skit was everone put on white surgical gloves on which they had colored brown dots on the the top of the hands. It was hilarious!

[Natural Beauty]

HAHAHAHAHA, IT'S NOT JUST ME! Thought I was going to be all cute for my honey with a new fancy lace get up....he fell off the bed. and not in a good way. :D I didn't realize I resembled a zebra with really wide stripes.

[Tuckervill]

My hands get so tan during baseball season that the bike gloves don't have a chance to shield them from the UV. I can credit sleeveless cycling jerseys with actually having no tan line on my upper arms, this year! Yeehaw!

The legs don't look different than any other year, because my cycling shorts are about the same length as my others. And I always have a Chaco/Keen pattern on my feet from the sandals!

Karen

[BabyBlueNTulsa]

Do I win the award for most non-descript tan lines on the back? LOL
Added "bonus" - you can see the top of my fusion scar in this pic. :p

(Spanky the cocker pup is supervising the photo shoot.)

[smilingcat]

I keep forgetting to apply spf 50 on my leg so bad me.