Tights over or under riding shorts?

The vast majority of riders that I see when it's cold wear their tights
underneath their riding shorts. I almost always wear my tight over my riding
shorts for one simple reason: if I get too warm during or after the ride, I
can easily slip them off. Try that with your tights on under your shorts!
I can't think of any good reason to put the tights on under the shorts,
except for those who wear shorts for a team and with to display their
colors.
Any thoughts?

GS wrote:
The vast majority of riders that I see when it's cold wear their
tights underneath their riding shorts. I almost always wear my tight
over my riding shorts for one simple reason: if I get too warm during
or after the ride, I can easily slip them off. Try that with your
tights on under your shorts!
I can't think of any good reason to put the tights on under the
shorts, except for those who wear shorts for a team and with to
display their colors.
Any thoughts?

Are you sure you haven't just seen people with legwarmers. I've never seen
anybody with tights under the shorts but a pair of legwarmers may look like
that.

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The vast majority of riders that I see when it's cold wear their tights
underneath their riding shorts. I almost always wear my tight over my riding
shorts for one simple reason: if I get too warm during or after the ride, I
can easily slip them off. Try that with your tights on under your shorts!
I can't think of any good reason to put the tights on under the shorts,
except for those who wear shorts for a team and with to display their
colors.
Any thoughts?

Depends on the design of the tights. I have a pair of UnderArmor
tights, which I wear under the shorts because they're designed and
styled like underwear (long-johns). You're correct about not being
easy to take them off; if I think I might want to take them off, I use
a pair of warmup pants over the shorts.


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Yeah, I'm sure. I know the difference between legwarmers and tights. I use
both myself.

"Per Elmsäter" wrote in message
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GS wrote:
The vast majority of riders that I see when it's cold wear their
tights underneath their riding shorts. I almost always wear my tight
over my riding shorts for one simple reason: if I get too warm during
or after the ride, I can easily slip them off. Try that with your
tights on under your shorts!
I can't think of any good reason to put the tights on under the
shorts, except for those who wear shorts for a team and with to
display their colors.
Any thoughts?

Are you sure you haven't just seen people with legwarmers. I've never seen
anybody with tights under the shorts but a pair of legwarmers may look
like
that.

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Perre

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wrote:

The vast majority of riders that I see when it's cold wear their tights
underneath their riding shorts. I almost always wear my tight over my
riding shorts for one simple reason: if I get too warm during or after
the ride, I can easily slip them off. Try that with your tights on under
your shorts! I can't think of any good reason to put the tights on under
the shorts, except for those who wear shorts for a team and with to
display their colors. Any thoughts?

Your experience differs from mine -- I can only recall cyclists with tights
over shorts, not the reverse. Another reason to do it this way: it's the
shorts that have the absorbent padding, so it makes more sense to have this
next to your skin.

The folks I ride with tend to be more practical than fashionable, though.
Perhaps the more stylin' people like to have their trendy shorts visible,
whether they're on a team or not.

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Benjamin Lewis

Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.
-- Walt Kelly

"GS" wrote in message
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The vast majority of riders that I see when it's cold wear their tights
underneath their riding shorts. I almost always wear my tight over my riding
shorts for one simple reason: if I get too warm during or after the ride, I
can easily slip them off. Try that with your tights on under your shorts!
I can't think of any good reason to put the tights on under the shorts,

Almost 100% of the riders I see (including me) wear tights over shorts (I'm
guessing they have shorts under, I do). I've never removed my tights while
riding, if the weather is marginal for tights, I'll wear leg warmers.

"GS" wrote in message
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The vast majority of riders that I see when it's cold wear their tights
underneath their riding shorts. I almost always wear my tight over my
riding
shorts for one simple reason: if I get too warm during or after the ride,
I
can easily slip them off. Try that with your tights on under your shorts!
I can't think of any good reason to put the tights on under the shorts,
except for those who wear shorts for a team and with to display their
colors.
Any thoughts?

I've seen both ways and both seem to have their pluses and minuses.

If you wear them under the shorts the crotch doesn't catch on the nose of
the saddle (though I was going to say on the nose of brian trdina didn't
you?) and hop you forward like a sling shot when you sit down after standing
up a hill.

If you wear them over the shorts you don't have to wash them every time you
use them.

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 10:56:25 -0700, GS wrote:

The vast majority of riders that I see when it's cold wear their tights
underneath their riding shorts.

Yeah? No one I ride with does. Most tights don't have a chamois, but
shorts do. Put the chamois against your skin, and the tights on the
outside.

I can't think of any good reason to put the tights on under
the shorts, except for those who wear shorts for a team and with to
display their colors.

Used to be, old wool tights had poor elastic and were badly cut, and would
fall down unless held up by your shorts. Really. But most of those
tights should be full of moth-holes by now.

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_`\(,_ | you that mine are all greater. -- A. Einstein
(_)/ (_) |

On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 18:19:35 +0000, Per Elmsäter wrote:

Are you sure you haven't just seen people with legwarmers. I've never seen
anybody with tights under the shorts but a pair of legwarmers may look like
that.

Modern tights are the best excuse to throw away those annoying legwarmers.
They never have, and never will, stay up where they belong. We used to
safety-pin them to the shorts to get them to stay put. RPITA. Tights are
so much better. I have a selection of weights to work for any range of
temperature when I can't wear shorts alone.

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David L. Johnson

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_`\(,_ | That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being
(_)/ (_) | attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any
country. -- Hermann Goering

David L. Johnson wrote:
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 18:19:35 +0000, Per Elmsäter wrote:

Are you sure you haven't just seen people with legwarmers. I've
never seen anybody with tights under the shorts but a pair of
legwarmers may look like that.

Modern tights are the best excuse to throw away those annoying
legwarmers. They never have, and never will, stay up where they
belong. We used to safety-pin them to the shorts to get them to stay
put. RPITA. Tights are so much better. I have a selection of
weights to work for any range of temperature when I can't wear shorts
alone.

Try Briko legwarmers. I've never had any problems with those, nor their
armwarmers.

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Perre

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