man this thread just reminds me how good I had it at my last FT job. separate mens & womens rest rooms. plus a 3rd with a shower. there was also a boiler room. I could bike commute year 'round, hang up wet clothes in the boiler room. shower & change. some things I did not re-use like my cycling shorts, which I wore under whatever the long pants or shorts of the day were, socks & base or under shirt. basically anything that touched my skin. that stuff went into a plastic bag & I brought it home, in my rear rack trunk. I stashed a clean set of the same stuff as well as work clothes in a big empty desk drawer. I forget if I hung my shower towel in the boiler room or if I brought it home. I think in the summer, when i was riding every day (26 miles round trip) I kept the same towel for the week. it never smelled. I always arrived waaay before anyone else so I was at my desk, clean, dry, cooled off, etc. & no one could tell I rode to work, except for seeing my bike in the loading dock. sometimes at lunch I'd go for a run & shower before going back to my desk. the business owner, also an avid cyclist, offered to get me a locker, for my convenience. but I was very happy drying everything in the boiler room, w/o being enclosed. if that didn't bother them, I didn't need a locker, not for drying the wet stuff anyway. man, I'd love to get another gig like that again!
right now I'm stuck w/ a regular small 1/2 bath at my current job. so when I bike commute (44 miles round trip), summers only, I sh*t, shower & shave at home, then ride in, clean as a whistle. I do sweat, but I stash wash-up stuff in the office, things like diluted liquid shampoo/body wash, wash cloth & 2 small hand towels, personal grooming & hygiene stuff too like deodorant & toothbrush. I wear as little as possible & the stuff that touches my body, basically cycling shorts & shirt, gets bagged to be brought home that night, I think I re-use the socks. I can hang dry a small washcloth & 2 small hand towels using an open desk drawer in my own small office w/ a window. they don't ever smell & can be re-used the next day. altho I don't bike commute more than once a week, maybe twice maximum. so I can use the car to transport everything, as needed. a small travel hair dryer is helpful too. not a bad setup really. plus in the summer our office staff goes way down, so there aren't too many ppl to even care what I do. not a bad situation
it's been a cpl years due to covid, so I'm hoping to do a cpl more commutes this summer!
Last edited by rumrunn6; 05-11-22 at 07:25 AM.