Casual Technical Commuter Gear

[Scabutz]

Currently I cycle my normal road bike to work and wear normal Lycra kit and SPD shoes. My new job will involve 4 x 20 min rides to and from the station and a train ride in between each 2. I dont really want to sit on the train in lycra and waddle through Euston in SPDs.

What do others do? I am mostly thinking about foot wear. The bikes will have flat peddles so could wear trainers but in winter conditions they are going to get soaked inside and be miserable. Are there some goretex style flat MTB shoes that are good? What about shorts / trousers etc? Some loser fitting MTB stuff?

I have a rain coat and the bikes have mud guards (until some scrote nicks em).

[z4RRSchris]

i ride 20/25 min twice a day.

I used to get fully kitted up, but now i cant be fked and just wear waterproof ish tracksuit bottoms and a puffer jacket.

get flat pedals and bingo.

C

[Barchettaman]

Double sided spd/platform pedals.

[itlab]

depending on budget (and your tolerance of their marketing)

racha have a range of technical/casual kit

https://www.rapha.cc/gb/en/collections/city/catego...

for footwear the problem is always that even if you make the shoe waterproof there's aways a big hole at the top that your foot fits in that lets water in

I just wear a set of 5tens (for the sole stiffness rather than the grip) and waterproof socks if I need them

[a11y_m]

itlab said:

for footwear the problem is always that even if you make the shoe waterproof there's aways a big hole at the top that your foot fits in that lets water in

I've ordered some of these to try after recommendations - apparently stop the water entering your shoes. I use waterproof boots which are excellent except for filling up when it's REALLY wet, so hoping these will help.

https://www.gripgrab.com/products/cyclingaiter

[RizzoTheRat]

Those look like they'll work well with a slim line cycling shoe but not anything bulkier. I wore my goretex walking boots to work this morning as when it's raining heavily I find the water can run down my waterproof trousers in in to my goretex trainers. I think I need some sort of short gaitor but it would need to hook down on to the laces rather than this kind of neoprene jobbie.