FS Newbies

[bikingjenn]

Trying out how to post. I was blocked for some reason. Someone must know my dark secrets. I do love dogs and other people’s puppies.

[rcannon100]

@bikingjenn 170056 wrote:

Trying out how to post. I was blocked for some reason. Someone must know my dark secrets. I do love dogs and other people’s puppies.

We demand pictures!

[kwarkentien]

@Edelweiss 170006 wrote:

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Frozen ears are a thing of the past with this one awesome hack! Use two spare beer can insulators, just slide them over your helmet straps for a winter weather-beating upcycled riding hack! Turn them inside out if you want a modest non-advertising look. Easy to slide off if you actually get too warm. (Inconcievable for me at the moment as it is -5 in eastern Wisconsin right now!). e

What a great idea. And the bonus is you have a beer cozy when you get to your mid-ride beer stop and one to share!

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[robertshmobert]

Thanks for the info! Looking to stay warm during my first time participating in BAFS

[Nadine]

@cvcalhoun 170001 wrote:

Yeah, but I’ve been trying to grow one since 1953, and it hasn’t worked yet.

Hahaha I was gonna SAY!

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[Nadine]

@kwarkentien 170076 wrote:

What a great idea. And the bonus is you have a beer cozy when you get to your mid-ride beer stop and one to share!

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Two! This is neat idea, Edelweiss! I never woulda thunk!

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[Nadine]

@Steve O 169984 wrote:

The bags the newspaper comes in works well for this. You can either pull it all the way up to your calf, or cut them off to only cover your foot. When I use this strategy, I put the bag between my two pairs of socks: sock-bag-sock-shoe

I’ve been using the newspaper bag trick for decades, but only for rain. Never thought of it for cold though. But sometimes it makes my feet sweat, so I wouldn’t think it’d be good for a ride of more than 5-10 miles. Is it?

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[Nadine]

@Steve O 169984 wrote:

The bags the newspaper comes in works well for this. You can either pull it all the way up to your calf, or cut them off to only cover your foot. When I use this strategy, I put the bag between my two pairs of socks: sock-bag-sock-shoe

I’ve been using the newspaper bag trick for decades, but only for rain. Never thought of it for cold though. But sometimes it makes my feet sweat, so I wouldn’t think it’d be good for a ride of more than 5-10 miles. Is it?

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[Sunyata]

@Nadine 170093 wrote:

I’ve been using the newspaper bag trick for decades, but only for rain. Never thought of it for cold though. But sometimes it makes my feet sweat, so I wouldn’t think it’d be good for a ride of more than 5-10 miles. Is it?

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No. This is actually a terrible idea. Plastic (and items like plastic such as latex or nitrile gloves on hands) do not breathe at all. Your hands/feet WILL sweat. That sweat has nowhere to go. The sweat then gets cold, as wet things tend to do when it is chilly out. Then your extremities get even colder, which could potentially lead to nerve/tissue damage, frost bite, or hypothermia.

[bmillah]

@bikingjenn 170056 wrote:

Trying out how to post. I was blocked for some reason. Someone must know my dark secrets. I do love dogs and other people’s puppies.

I’m figuring out how to post while also trying to save my FS18 registration. I guess the first one didn’t go thru. I got a pair of toe warmers for xmas so I could stop wrapping my feet in aluminum foil, somehow the Mrs. didn’t think that was an attractive look…

Looking forward to doing this. Hope this one works!

Oh, and I like dogs.

[Steve O]

@Sunyata 170096 wrote:

No. This is actually a terrible idea. Plastic (and items like plastic such as latex or nitrile gloves on hands) do not breathe at all. Your hands/feet WILL sweat. That sweat has nowhere to go. The sweat then gets cold, as wet things tend to do when it is chilly out. Then your extremities get even colder, which could potentially lead to nerve/tissue damage, frost bite, or hypothermia.

I would tend to agree with this for a long ride, but for a commute of under an hour, I find it works. My feet never get warm enough to actually sweat, and if they did, I’m almost there by then.

[Birru]

@Sunyata 170096 wrote:

No. This is actually a terrible idea. Plastic (and items like plastic such as latex or nitrile gloves on hands) do not breathe at all. Your hands/feet WILL sweat. That sweat has nowhere to go. The sweat then gets cold, as wet things tend to do when it is chilly out. Then your extremities get even colder, which could potentially lead to nerve/tissue damage, frost bite, or hypothermia.

But amputating digits allows me to shed grams and improve my power to weight.

[jrenaut]

In all seriousness about sweat and cold – isn’t this what wool helps deal with? I thought it was like one step below a wetsuit.

[Birru]

@jrenaut 170151 wrote:

In all seriousness about sweat and cold – isn’t this what wool helps deal with? I thought it was like one step below a wetsuit.

Wool is great but it doesn’t dry as well as synthetics. I like to wear a polypropylene mesh base under my wool base for wicking purposes. It keeps my core a lot dryer, especially my back.

[jrenaut]

@Birru 170153 wrote:

Wool is great but it doesn’t dry as well as synthetics. I like to wear a polypropylene mesh base under my wool base for wicking purposes. It keeps my core a lot dryer, especially my back.

Yeah, but my point is that, for me at least, nothing I wear is going to dry until either 1) I’ve gotten home and sat in a warm house for 3 hours or 2) I tossed it in the dirty clothes hamper. The only articles of clothing I wear biking that dry while biking are the outer layers after it stops raining.

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