WoolWeenies Club

[KnottedYet]

Wooly redemption story:

I have a pair of the fab-o MUSA pants from Riv. I sweat like a crazed weasel (and it shows), so for warm weather and longer rides I'll stick with my tried and true skorts.

The pants are nice for shorter rides or sort of cooler rides, but they were uncomfortable for chilly rides. Next cool day I tried putting them on over my Ibex capris. Oops. The fabric dragged and pulled and bound and made me grumpy!

I fell out of love with my MUSA pants for a while.

Today I wore UA compression shorts, Ibex long underwear over them, and the MUSAs over that. Whoopee! Everything slid easily, no binding, very warm and cozy and breathable for sweaty-weasel me!

Moral of the story; MUSA with Ibex capris, not perfect. MUSA with Ibex long johns, blissful!

(and I love my MUSA pants again)

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Knot- your story reminds me of what I did today...
Since it's been in the 20's an awful lot lately, I have been doing less bike riding and more fitness walking.
This morning was in the 30's, so DH and I decided to brave a bike ride. I bundled up good....and I put my SportHill wind resistant winter pants on OVER my Ibex thick wool tights. Oooohhh-my legs were nice and warm!

A few miles after we started our ride, I suddenly realized that I had completely forgotten to wear something with a chamois pad. All my fitness walking had gotten me out of the habit of automatically reaching for chamois tights. Our ride was going to be 30 miles, about 3 hours long. My Brooks saddle has no padding whatsoever. Yes, Brooks saddles are nicely molded to one's butt, but they are still rather hard leather!

DH said we could shorten the ride, but I said no I'll get through it, it's only 30 miles. Well, I did manage just fine- a tad sore towards the end, yes, but only because my sit bones were accustomed to having a decent chamois pad on rides over an hour.
At least my butt was nice and warm though.

[KnottedYet]

I didn't have a chamois either, and I was kind of using the ride as a test of my chamois-system. (I brought my bus pass in case I got too sore to ride home.)

The 3 layers I rode in today were pretty darn comfy, a close second to the old style chamois i like so much, and much better than the way the new 3-d chamois (don't) fit my sits bones.

I only had a momentary bit of soreness under my right sit bone after I walloped a bunch of cracked pavement. That's my low bone as it is, and it has made a nice nest for itself on the right side of my Brooks. Don't think a chamois would've prevented that (opening my damm eyes and picking my butt up before I hit the cracks would've been good!) so I'm starting to wonder if I can safely skip chamois shorts under my "street" shorts and capris in the future.

I'd like to try my Ibex boxer briefs under a pair of street capris when it gets warmer.

[elk]

hmmm

I only did 10 miles...but was uber comfortable the whole time. i did have to stop on the way back---INTO the wind--- to put on my new present from DH (which he picked out with no prompting from moi) a smartwool headband for my ears...

i had on my icebreaker 3/4 leggings, ibex skirt over, smartwool ski socks (with superstripes ) Under my shak zip i had a longsleeve Riv crew and over it I wore my new Marmot sharp point softshell.

I LOVE that jacket. It has so far been great in cold weather, rain, and if I get too hot I just unzip the pits for instant regulation.

Plus I looked ...

and listen to me...talking woolies with the big girls...