Wearing jewellery while cycling

[shootingstar]

I forgot..my watch is I guess, jewellry too even though highly durable
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I've heard different things about people who wear rings...guess it depends if it's a real rock and if can fit through the snuggly bike glove..

[Mr. Bloom]

Silver wears stuff...but she makes everything she wears

[maillotpois]

I have a plain, somewhat thick gold wedding band and a diamond solitaire engagement ring. Sometimes I forget to take the diamond off when I ride. Lots of times I just leave it in a drawer for months at a time and just wear the gold band.

I was SO glad I wasn't wearing the diamond when I crashed. I landed on the left side, and my hand got completely cut up by the gold band, and the gold band is all chewed up with big divots out of it. The diamond setting would have been demolished.

[Velobambina]

Wedding band, Miraculous Medal, and small hoop earrings (multiple piercings in my ears--legacy of my '80s punk rock girl days)

[OakLeaf]

My wedding band is set with a single row of small diamonds. I don't often take it off, just on account-a, except for weightlifting when I can just tuck it in the hem of my shorts for a few minutes, or tie it to a shoelace. Sometimes I take it off to work on the motorcycle, and then I wind up forgetting where I put it (usually in the pocket of my jeans ). It's beautiful, but I'm always afraid for it. And the stones tend to cut my kayak paddle grips and catch on my gloves.

Other than that I don't wear a lot of jewelry - my ears have one piercing but I don't even wear earrings every day. Necklaces sometimes, bracelets never - they're just in my way. Haven't worn a watch since I got a cell phone.

[shootingstar]

My wedding band is set with a single row of small diamonds. I don't often take it off, just on account-a, except for weightlifting when I can just tuck it in the hem of my shorts for a few minutes, or tie it to a shoelace. Sometimes I take it off to work on the motorcycle, and then I wind up forgetting where I put it (usually in the pocket of my jeans ). It's beautiful, but I'm always afraid for it. And the stones tend to cut my kayak paddle grips and catch on my gloves.

Other than that I don't wear a lot of jewelry - my ears have one piercing but I don't even wear earrings every day. Necklaces sometimes, bracelets never - they're just in my way. Haven't worn a watch since I got a cell phone.

I just would tend to forget where I temporarily put down a piece of expensive jewellery .. This is why I have stayed away from rings since I work with oil and acrylic paints, etc. There have been occasions where I've run around trying to find my watch at home. Usually it is in an obvious place.

I love thick single bracelet that I wear part way up my arm. Not jangly (charm) bracelets. Again I have to put on the bracelet at work after I change out of my cycling clothing.

So for me, to pack jewellery ..in order to wear it later on in day, is abit of rare event, because of extra step and making sure ..I repack the piece in my pannier. Not leave it behind somewhere else.

I wear a daily pair of freshwater pearl earrings on silver wires that are bent in zigzag shape as part of the design...different but also very practical. Will not fall out while on bike.

[alpinerabbit]

for tris, bike marathons etc. I wear a pentagram. other than that nothing. Except if I forget to take it off.


Edit. I don't wear nothing but the pentagram. I mean no jewelry during training. LOL.

[Popoki_Nui]

I'm pretty plain-jane when it comes to jewellery. All I wear on my bike are a watch, my wedding bands, and a silver rope necklace with a Maori greenstone pendant which is supposed to bring the wearer strength. I need all of that I can get. I probably shouldn't wear it cycling, but it was given to me by a dear friend and I just can't seem to take it off.
I have a few flash pieces I can wear when I have to do the formal thing, which fortunately isn't very often. My only real concession to jewellery is my watch collection, which is kinda out of control at this point.

[SalsaMTB]

Daily I wear my wedding band, engagement ring, watch, and just started wearing mom's ring and necklace. For riding, I only wear my wedding band. When I first got engaged I would wear full finger gloves with my ring on, but it was a bit uncomfortable and just not worth the risk.

[Aggie_Ama]

Daily I wear my wedding ring and engagement ring, but do not riding. My wedding band is small with channel set diamonds and would fit fine, but my hand swells uncomfortably. My engagement ring wouldn't fit comfortably under gloves. The other ring I wear daily is my college ring but again swelling and bulk make it uncomfortable cycling. I wear all three running if I have them on, but usually leave them home. Salt build up from sweating is just icky on my jewelry!

On the bike I wear a small teardrop pendant my husband gave me, tiny diamond studs and tiny silver hoops. I only take any of those off to clean them, or to wear fancier earrings. And I cycle in a Timex Ironman watch.

[Tuckervill]

I have a plain, somewhat thick gold wedding band and a diamond solitaire engagement ring. Sometimes I forget to take the diamond off when I ride. Lots of times I just leave it in a drawer for months at a time and just wear the gold band.

I was SO glad I wasn't wearing the diamond when I crashed. I landed on the left side, and my hand got completely cut up by the gold band, and the gold band is all chewed up with big divots out of it. The diamond setting would have been demolished.

I lost my diamond solitaire playing baseball with my son. :''''( (my husband has not replaced it, yet, but at our 20th, he's going to whether he wants to or not!) So that leaves the two bands with little diamonds. I haven't had them off since my last back surgery in 1994--since the diamond is gone I don't have to worry about the gloves.

I'm glad you weren't wearing your diamond, too. It was so heartbreaking to lose mine. I'm still a little mad at my husband for not going out and buying me a new one but he also knows I wouldn't want to make payments on it. Our insurance had recently been changed and the jewelry rider was left off so I couldn't even claim it!!

I always wear earrings--dangley ones, mostly. I use the little rubber tubes on the backs of French wires so they stay in no matter what. I have those earrings with little bikes on them that someone posted here once--they have a unique clasp that stays locked.

Karen

[bmccasland]

I take jewelry off when I ride. Have lost earrings in helmet straps, hands swell, so the rings go, and the watch goes too (have bike computer if I really want to know the time).

[lph]

The only jewelry I wear daily is a necklace, which I'll wear for months at a time, and sleep with it. I wear a leather cord with something lightweight on it, my favourite is a rounded "cube" of blue glass with a piece of metal foil in it, it catches the light beautifully

Can't stand wearing anything on my hands, if I put a bracelet or rings on for a party I end up fiddling with them all evening, taking them off and losing them somewhere. Which is a bit unfortunate, as I recently inherited a really nice diamond ring from my grandmother, that I'd like to wear. I'm thinking of having it made into an earring instead and getting my ears pierced.

[tulip]

I have a really nice bracelet with a fleur-de-lis design made out of a bicycle spoke by a guy at Cycles d'Oro in Greensboro NC. I always get comments on it, and I love that it's made out of a spoke.

[GLC1968]

I take jewelry off when I ride. Have lost earrings in helmet straps, hands swell, so the rings go, and the watch goes too (have bike computer if I really want to know the time).

Ditto, except that my wedding band often stays on (plain platinum band). That's only because it's too small and I can't get it off easily anyway.