orguasch

this summer, still need to get a good ride, just arrived from Boston, will ride tomorrow, just have to log those miles and get some good tan

psycholist

nothing like crocheted gloves in the summer...makes your hands look like you stuck them into a miniature waffle iron. Unfortunately the woven pair I currently own doesn't have that terrycloth patch for sweat wiping and I can't stand that when it's 110 outside like it is now. I have to resort to the solid lycra backs. Some days I even roll up an old bandana and tie it around my wrist for mopping...makes the hand tan all the more interesting.
BTW, while the talk is on summer related things...You know what REALLY withers the spirit during a long hot summer ride??? A huge blazing patch of poison ivy blisters just about the sock line!!!! All that sweat trickles past it and makes it fire up...well, that does it. Gotta go scratch.

colna-joe

My personal favorite is the raccoon effect you get when you wear the same sunglasses on every bike ride. Very stylish!

Altwegg

how bout the "white watch" when I'm not wearing a watch? hehehe

Michel Gagnon

Apart from the white watch, I'm tanning all over. My hands are slightly lighter than my arms and fingers, but as I cycle a lot with 2 kids, I spend a lot of time watching them at various playgrounds.

As for tanning in Winter (reply to the Tasmanian guy), I tan in Winter too. It's just that, with long sleeves, a sweater and a jacket, my tan is limited to my face.

Regards,

Guest

I got all kinds of tan- my face is tan except where the sunglasses are, so I look like some kind of alien.

I have the tan that's on the legs, but my feet are still light brown.

I've got the tan on the arms that goes to the upper arms from the jersey I wear.

I've got the tan from the gloves, so my hands are light, but then my arm is darker.

I also have a tan from where my heart rate monitor goes- and it's just on one arm, so the other arm by the wrist doesn't have a striped appearance on the left side that's not on the right wrist.

I'm thinking of going to my sister in law's and putting on a bikini one day when it's like 110 and roasting myself to one color- I look weird.

geofflowery

Most just say "Hey, cool tan!" ----completely sarcastic of course. I guess everyone else just doesn't understand!

mightypudge

I wish I would tan already. Three weeks of riding in this constantly cloudy, humid weather and I'm still white as a sheet.

Chris L

Consider yourself lucky. Out here we get sunburned in cloudy weather.

Phatman

hey hey! no glove tan here! I ride bare handed! my shirts and shorts have pretty much the same hem lines has my cycling clothes...no one notices, and when I do take my shirt off, people mistake it for a farmers tan! ha! fools! if only they knew the truth!