Slightly outside your price range I know but take a look at Icebreaker. I've got a few long sleeved and one short sleeved "Everyday Merino" from Cotswolds great outdoors I think, the long sleeved where £55. Although in fact they are on sale now and an extremely good price. Really can't recommend them enough!
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Slightly outside your price range I know but take a look at Icebreaker. I've got a few long sleeved and one short sleeved "Everyday Merino" from Cotswolds great outdoors I think, the long sleeved where £55. Although in fact they are on sale now and an extremely good price. Really can't recommend them enough!
When it gets below 10C don't you start wearing an insulating outer layer rather than just relying on a warm base layer + jersey?
I still think this is a bargain...
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/dhb-windslam-softshell-jacket/
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I have several of the short sleeved versions of Planet-X's merino baselayer which I wear under my softshell jacket. I like them a lot; in fact I quite often wear them on their own as a normal t-shirt. As Shamrock says, you're probably going to need a warmer outer layer when the temperatures are in single digits.
Go Outdoors have some SmartWool bits on offer at the moment - assorted options for £20 to £35. I've got a couple of the long sleeve zip tops and they get abused all winter for running and biking. They probably get washed about once every two or three months
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I swap arm warmers for long sleeves at 10c.
As things get close to freezing I might put on a winter jersey.
At freezing I can put on my soft shell.
You lot need to be more spinny to generate heat.
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Sounds like you need to come on the CS7 and see how spinny I am!
You are excluded from the above as you <50kg.
You are allowed to get cold.
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You lost 75kg!!!?
I lost 30kg over a 2 year period. I'm still around 78kg at the moment and want to get to 70kg eventually. Previously I used aggressive calorie deficits to cut weight but training a lot it just doesn't work. Recently read a good book about Matt Fitzgerald called racing weight which has some great ideas about how to cut weight while training. It's all about the quality of food consumed, and it seems to be working.
Need to get shot of the average tyres (Schwalbe Lugano 23mm) that came on my Cannondale CAAD8. Seem quite skittish and not particularly grippy.
Looking around Continental Grand Prix 4 Season (GP4000s) seem to be well rated for general riding etc - Any better options? Also thinking going for 25mm ones this time.
Any thoughts?
Looking around Continental Grand Prix 4 Season (GP4000s) seem to be well rated for general riding etc - Any better options? Also thinking going for 25mm ones this time.
Any thoughts?
So this site is fairly accurate then considering the orange lump is above Cambridge?
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
It looks like it's going to hit London just as I leave for home!
http://www.raintoday.co.uk/
It looks like it's going to hit London just as I leave for home!
True.
BBC is diabolical. You think that it is accurate because it splits the forecast down into 1hr slots. But no. On Thursday last week it had forecast that a good 90% of the time on Friday and Saturday would be rain in Leek. In reality there was a bit on Friday day, loads at night, then the whole of Saturday was dry.
So from a forecast of every hour of Saturday to be rainy, to nothing... pahh. I get that it is a prediction but whaaa?
BBC is diabolical. You think that it is accurate because it splits the forecast down into 1hr slots. But no. On Thursday last week it had forecast that a good 90% of the time on Friday and Saturday would be rain in Leek. In reality there was a bit on Friday day, loads at night, then the whole of Saturday was dry.
So from a forecast of every hour of Saturday to be rainy, to nothing... pahh. I get that it is a prediction but whaaa?
Yes. My Planet-X came with Luganos and they got ditched after getting two punctures on my first long ride (Liverpool > Chester > Liverpool). They are still hanging in the garage...
I replaced them with Conti GP 4 Seasons (note the GP4000s is a different tyre altogether). Very happy with them. Can't remember when I got them (maybe 3 years ago) but I've had one puncture with them which was this year (which isn't bad in 1200km). That was a pinch puncture after a short off-road section back in July.
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Just looked out of the office window and can't see a cloud in the sky. It's about 25c out there today. Maybe 30c tomorrow.
Pity I don't have a bike here.
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