Hive Mind....I'm in the market for some new winter bibs....what are the best ones you have tried? I am leaning toward Castelli or treating myself to Rapha but if there is equal performing for cheaper I'd be open to suggestions
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my castelli winter bibs are superb - 2 years old, washed loads and still good. bar the stickers/branding badge eventually falling off the hip - they have been great
Have heard good things about the Castelli Omloop shorts. Rapha Pro Team Winter Bibs are supposed to be some of the best you can get (with a price tag to match). Lots of club guys wear Endura Thermolite which I almost tried.
As mentioned above, my go-to winter shorts are Sportful Fiandre NoRain. I've bought them various places, anything less than £80 seems a good deal at the moment, if you can still find them in stock. Cheapest I found was £65 from Evans' and £68 from Wiggle (both OOS now), in late summer/early autumn.
This one - http://www.wiggle.co.uk/sportful-fiandre-no-rain-jacket/
Material generally feels like it would be too warm in most cases and I'm not super keen on the one big pocket to be honest. New version has three pockets.
Ahhh, same as Paul I'm guessing. Unsure how I pointed out a deal on them yet didn't get one myself, doh! 
Have a good weekend all!
Good luck with the MMH merlin/Julian, take your time and enjoy it! You'll make some friends as many early season sportives with 'changeable' weather conditions turn into a team effort! As it's your first the time doesn't matter, just getting to the end does!
Have a good weekend all!
Good luck with the MMH merlin/Julian, take your time and enjoy it! You'll make some friends as many early season sportives with 'changeable' weather conditions turn into a team effort! As it's your first the time doesn't matter, just getting to the end does!
Ahhh, same as Paul I'm guessing. Unsure how I pointed out a deal on them yet didn't get one myself, doh!
Yes I'm pretty sure it was you that pointed out the deal. Thank you very much for making me buy something I never ended up using
(I'll use it some day!)
Yep
I like it for just a do it all jacket for the cold. Can be used for the commute or longer rides in rubbish weahter and for warming up/down when racing. Fits well, but the pocket lets it down.
I like it for just a do it all jacket for the cold. Can be used for the commute or longer rides in rubbish weahter and for warming up/down when racing. Fits well, but the pocket lets it down.
That commute sucked balls! Sweaty balls! Sweaty balls that have just climbed vonteux!
It was dark, wet, cold and very windy. This alone was ball suckingly bad. 6 miles in - about halfway home - I hit a stretch of road with terrible surface. There's only one clear bit where they've run a new pipe down the length of the road, but if you're inside of that, there's little lumps at every house where a pipe or cable or whatever goes from the big pipe to each house. Riding down the inside of it sucks balls. If the road is clear you can ride down the smooth bit, but not if there's traffic and you haven't pushed your way out. It sucks balls. I hadn't got on to the smooth bit, so I was battling with the bumps when some berk passed way too close and I swerved left, right into a ball suckingly huge pothole. Cue pinch flat on the front and rapid loss of pressure. I stopped in a bus shelter and fixed it - yay co2 - and then set off again, but you know what it's like setting off in the cold when you're soaked, so the remaining 5 miles were a real battle.
And to top it off I forgot to restart my garmin so I lost two miles!
It. Sucked. BALLS.
It was dark, wet, cold and very windy. This alone was ball suckingly bad. 6 miles in - about halfway home - I hit a stretch of road with terrible surface. There's only one clear bit where they've run a new pipe down the length of the road, but if you're inside of that, there's little lumps at every house where a pipe or cable or whatever goes from the big pipe to each house. Riding down the inside of it sucks balls. If the road is clear you can ride down the smooth bit, but not if there's traffic and you haven't pushed your way out. It sucks balls. I hadn't got on to the smooth bit, so I was battling with the bumps when some berk passed way too close and I swerved left, right into a ball suckingly huge pothole. Cue pinch flat on the front and rapid loss of pressure. I stopped in a bus shelter and fixed it - yay co2 - and then set off again, but you know what it's like setting off in the cold when you're soaked, so the remaining 5 miles were a real battle.
And to top it off I forgot to restart my garmin so I lost two miles!
It. Sucked. BALLS.
Ended up getting a jacket and a jersey in the end. The jacket was the all singing all dancing No Rain jacket. Fits very snugly and it feels like it will keep me very warm but happy with that for the commute. And then got the long sleeve jersey (link below) for when it's not raining but just cold, will take a stuff away waterproof with me when using this one as a get out of jail card.
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/sportful-fiandre-light-windstopper-jacket/
I thought commuting by bike was suppose to be cheaper!! At the moment it isn't but I'll stop when I've built up a good selection of kit right?
http://www.wiggle.co.uk/sportful-fiandre-light-windstopper-jacket/
I thought commuting by bike was suppose to be cheaper!! At the moment it isn't but I'll stop when I've built up a good selection of kit right?
As its been mentioned the updated version now has three pockets but it's a shame that it doesn't have a zipped pocket though. As much as I'm sure my keys wouldn't come out I just don't trust putting them in an open pocket.
Just spotted this on Garmin forums, may be usefl for some. not tried it yet.
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?368562-Send-GPX-over-the-air-wifi
https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?368562-Send-GPX-over-the-air-wifi
Looks like it will be wash out on Sunday, along with cold temps. I hate those type of rides :/
I'm forever swearing to myself!'Character building'... more like foul vocabulary building
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Yup, my first ever sportive and it's going to be wetting than an otters pocket.
Great
It's much easier to deal with than an extremely wet solo ride. Everyone else is just getting on with it so you do too!
I might risk a heavy base layer, gabba 2 LS and boil in the bag packaway rain jacket and hope that's enough.
Tricky not under or over dressing - dont want to get wet or cold but also dont want to get stuck with too many layers!