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i do. i am currently sitting next to a clients rack room having ridden here for a bit of maintenance work. Here are my tips:
1. Get a top box. Ignore the haters. It is fantastic at keeping clothing dry and less likely to get creased in a rucksack.
2. If you need to go to a client and you dont want them to see you all geared up, take the car joking aside, take gear off in the street. It will probably fit in that top box from tip #1. Wear suit under bike gear
3. Staying warm, IMO and recent experience battling the cold, means layers. Lots of layers means a lot of clothes to pack away in that top box/rucksack. Heated grips coupled with bar muffs and quality gore text boots have saved me from the cold.
unfortunately winter bike commuting is a PITA in the put on/take off gear respect. I'd advise doing it for a month or so and finding out for yourself what works for you |
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Glad I don't take part in that bullshit anymore, but I sized the client up first. Coutts & Co were a stuffy bunch of fuckers, as were Citibank, but Lombard and Selfridges didn't care as long as you got the work done.
Got the largest top box I could, textile trousers over suit trousers if cold/wet, otherwise just wore suit trousers. Jacket in top box with laptop, always wore plain black bike boots, so never needed to take shoes. ____________________ Chances are quite high you are not in my Monkeysphere, and I don't care about you. Don't take it personally.
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I've done it a little to my normal office, and its still a pain but bearable.
Sod doing it to a client office, especially if impressions matter.
stevo as b4 wrote: | It might sound really weird, but I've always struggled with the thought of people using a bike to get to work who work 100% of the time in a very smart professional office job, and who need to wear a suit and look smart.
I guess I just don't know many people in that line of work who ride bikes. All the people I know that commute on bikes are either factory or warehouse workers, site managers, engineers or electrical fitters etc.
Im just a fucker I guess, and I never can imagine accountants or solicitors, or office admin staff buzzing to work on the Fireblade or changing the oil and fitting new race can at the weekends.
I imagine office workers generally to like fast new cars on finance schemes, and say know that an Audi RS3 is fast, but not know what TFSI is or how a twin scroll turbocharger works, other than their car is quick and looks good. |
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Work in an office and have done since I finished uni
Have two bikes, both of which I look after myself
Have heavily modified 5-6 cars and not used a garage other than MOTs and tyre fitting.
I declare sweeping generalisations! I know many many people in manual jobs who buy new cars on finance every three years too, but there's no correlation really.
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For long trips I've done it by riding 90% of the way in normal gear then stopping at the closest services and changing into suit trousers and shirt under my textiles in the loos. Then finally do dress shoes and suit jacket in the customer car park. Top box and panniers are excellent for this, holding riding boots and trousers in one, bike jacket in the other and lid in the top box.
Alternatively, in many places there is a visitor toilet in reception, and in my experience if you ask nicely most receptionists are happy to let you change before they sign you in and call your host.
<bodyguard>I have had them ask if I need any help changing </bodyguard>
Top tip in life - be very nice to receptionists, admin staff and guards; they can make your life very easy or absolute hell. |
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andyscooter wrote: | didn't realise you could have business use on a provisional (presuming as 125cc bike in sig) |
Insightful. OP, even if you've declared that you'll be "commuting", that generally means to a fixed place of work or study.
Probably won't be an issue, just if you do have an off or get tugged, be careful about where you say you were going. Folk have been done for no business use by Cunstable McJobsworth.
Oh, and +infinity to the biggest top box you can find. Forget how it looks. Even on a 125, you want something like this. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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I'm not judging on if you should ride to the office, or if it looks out of place or wrong, hell no! I personally would find it a pain to suit and de-suit every day at work, and I imagine summer is worse than winter if you insist on wearing protective gear, of which I would myself if I was commuting into and out of cities every day mixed with busy A-roads and motorways etc.
As you said plenty of cyclists do it every day too, and seem happy enough with the situation. You office people though in your big corporate towers probably have a big advantage though, as you often have showers, nice clean washrooms and secure storage/cloakrooms, not to mention often posh kitchen and dining areas/canteens or staff rooms to make changing and warming yourself up with a hot drink much easier.
It wouldn't be quite as much fun changing in the back of a cold filthy transit on a muddy building site. And sitting on a generator splashed in petrol to get changed and having all your kit bag and bike gear bashed around and covered in dirt. |
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Heat is a pain if you can't shower. This summer my son was on a placement at my work, so I ended up using the Pan to pillion him in rather than coming on the naked bandit. Minimal air flow due to the fairings and an engine that cooks you isn't great in the high-20s we had this year
For more extreme two wheeled commuting I used to go to Sweden most weeks. I sometimes cycled 25 miles to Heathrow, took the pannier off my push bike as my carry on and wheeled the bike into left luggage inside terminal 3 (secure bike storage indoors for £8/day). Walked through security still wearing lycra (no need for a pat down as it was obvious I wasn't carrying anything!) then showered and changed in the business lounge. Fly to Denmark, train to Sweden, jump on the bike I left at that end and cycle 30km to the office. I preferred that to taking the chauffeured Merc service that people at my grade were supposed to use for travel within the UK. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 148 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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