layering! please give me a how to!

[pedalfaster]

Originally posted by CorsairMac

Dear Pedal - I've looked at the Lobster Claws - will they really keep my hands warm?...do you wear liners under them?.....do you have problems braking and shifting in them? (it looks like I would)?
Anxiously Waiting for Answers in Albuquerque! (re: Kathie)

Yes the lobsters keep your hands warmer than gloves. Same idea as mittens, but with more dexterity. Skip the liners; you want skin-on-skin contact. Braking and shifting is not any more difficult than with other full-fingered gloves.

I have had frostbite in my right middle finger; lobster gloves are the only way I'm able to ride below 35F. I like them so much I've started using them for XC skiing and walking the dog in winter as well.

[Cdalekat]

Originally posted by CorsairMac
now FEET I can help you with - I just got introduced to expedition-weight hiking socks by a company called Smartwoolies.

I have to second the motion for Smartwool! I love those socks!
(I got my first pair at REI)

[CorsairMac]

Lets hear it for REI! I just got 2 more pair last night - I'm wearing them as "slipper socks" around the house now too! and Pedal - you ROCKKKKKKKKKKK!!! I picked up the Lobster Gloves last night and wore them this morning - 31 with a 25 wind chill. My hands were comfy cozy the whole ride. I can do this ladies - and I can do this because of everyones help and advice! My advice - Never start back into cycling during the fall - I've dropped more money lately getting my "winter gear" then I probably did buying my bike! yeah yeah - it'll last me forever - but I keep shredding the receipts - I do NOT want to know what I"ve spent so far!
Mitre - never heard of Kerb Foot - I can't even imagine how uncomfortable that must've been to have 1 warm foot and 1 cold foot!!

[MightyMitre]

Yeh - kerb foot it a little strange.

This was just the name a few of us decided to call it. The funny thing is,none of us can work out why the one foot should get so much colder than the other. Maybe the inside foot it more protected as there's no passing traffic to cause a breeze?? Clutching at straws here...

Glad the lobster mitts are a success. Nice and toasty.

P.S O/T - Any of you been out voting? The UK news here seems totally obsessed!!! All we've been hearing about it swing states and canvassing.

[CorsairMac]

stopped and voted on my way home last night - dressed in my bikie gear. Me and the old people volunteers! We had a blast! have you tried wearing heavier gear on the non-curb side? I agree with you - sounds like the curb is helping to "curb" the elements while the traffic side is more exposed. You could just ride on the American side of the road when the foot gets to cold! (just a thought - maybe start a traffic revolution!)

[pedalfaster]

Originally posted by MightyMitre

P.S O/T - Any of you been out voting? The UK news here seems totally obsessed!!! All we've been hearing about it swing states and canvassing.

I walked to my polling place at lunch yesterday. No long lines in my tiny little town.

I voted for the guy with the best bike

Sadly, he didn't win

I anyone can recommend a nice, bike-friendly country, not run by religious extremists, I'm considering a new home....

[CorsairMac]

Cancun?

[pedalfaster]

Originally posted by CorsairMac
Cancun?

Thanks for my laugh for the day.

One problem: I looove snow!

[kimba]

C eh?
N eh?
D eh?

Snow we got- good bikin' too!

Kimba
Canuck

[spazzdog]

I find the SmartWool socks at REI here in Massachusetts. They are great! I wear them in Doc Martens, hiking boots, work boots and my slippers

I always have cold feet... even in summer. The sun goes down, my feet get cold. Oh well.

[MightyMitre]

I voted for the guy with the best bike

Good choice Shame he didn't win.

Apparently I heard some story earlier in the year about Bush falling off a mountain bike and grazing his face! Don't like the sound of his bike handling skills. Perhaps an 'foreign' looking rider with pointed beared and a helmet shaped like a tablecloth cut him up on the trail.

Nice places to live....erm.. don't bother with the UK - we seem to have become the official domestique to the US. Not everyone is happy about this.

Hey- enough politics. If I was president I'd say free bikes for all. :

[emily_in_nc]

Originally posted by pedalfaster
I walked to my polling place at lunch yesterday. No long lines in my tiny little town.

I voted for the guy with the best bike

Sadly, he didn't win

I anyone can recommend a nice, bike-friendly country, not run by religious extremists, I'm considering a new home....

When you find one, pf, I'll move there with you!

Sigh....

[jobob]

Denmark. As an added plus, practically everyone speaks excellent English, and the men are breathtaking

(and, in the intersts of equal time, so are the women - tho I have to admit that is also a minus because it makes us, ahem, 'normal' looking women even more, ahem, 'normal' looking in comparison)

I'd put in for a transfer, but I'm very much on the verge of telling my boss to take this job and shove it, so I suppose following up with a transfer request wouldn't work.

[pedalfaster]

Originally posted by MightyMitre
Hey- enough politics. If I was president I'd say free bikes for all. :

Now that is a platform I can heartily endorse!

MightyMitre for president! (or would that be queen of the universe?)

[jobob]

One of my favorite cool-weather pieces of clothing is my cycling jacket - I can zip off the sleeves and convert it to a vest.