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Try to ride at 60% of your maximum heart-rate.
Watch out your cadence and use a lower gear.
Use light clothes just a shirt and a breathable windproof jacket in winter.
In the summer avoid the sun, try using the parks, the wind and the trees are your friends.
Avoid the backpacks they make you sweat more, use a rear rack and panniers.
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The construction is different, shorts need to have the elastication around the top to keep them in place around your waist and on your hips, this has an obvious effect on the styling. This isn't totally similar to regular shorts, given that cycling shorts need to be designed for a body that's probably bending over a little more than normal so the top of the ...
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In addition to what Alex says, in cold weather I will ride in bibtights. They are unpadded so I wear shorts underneath. I prefer shorts to bibs in that scenario because the bibtights themselves already come over my shoulders, and when I tried wearing bibs under them I just felt trussed up.
One other thing - and I don't think I'm imagining this going by ...
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Bibs
Don't move.
Looks more pro.
Shorts
Easier to put on.
Easier when the you hear the call of nature.
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It's normal in a lot of cities to commute wearing your work attire, but I can't recommend it if you ride actively enough to sweat. This actually doesn't relate to the weather as much as you might think, I find Winter riding to be much sweatier then Summer. It's not an option for me, since I tend to go down once in while as I ride so aggressively (not in ...
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Those people you mentioned seeing in 'office clothing' most likely don't have a very long commute. Depending on where you live it may be like here in Switzerland; it has become some kind of trend. People show off their dutch style bicycles and feel awfully cool, which might explain why you perceive them as looking like fashion models. You will also notice ...
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I think everyone rides according to their preference and purpose. If you ride to exercise and break a sweat, then you probably won't wear your work clothes. But if you're like most commuters, you want to ride in comfort, for the most part, and appear presentable when your ride is finished. And as was suggested in the comments, riders choose their clothing, ...
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Living in Denmark, I have ridden a bike almost every day of my life since I turned 5. I do not claim to be any kind of expert, I just see biking as an every day rutine. I ride my bike to work every day. I break into sweat real easy in the summer, when temperatures often rises above 20 degrees C if not in shorts, which I cannot wear to work. So how do I ...
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If the rain is light to moderate and I'm only cycling, I'd tend to choose:
a light windproof jacket: these pack down to the size of an apple, most rain will just roll off them but they're still more breathable than full water-proof fabrics, and whatever does get through won't make you cold because the jacket blocks wind chill
normal cycling gear underneath ...
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For bike touring, I've had some good luck using a rain cape, a bike specific poncho that sits over your bars and is open on the bottom. It provides a lot of ventilation and keeps a lot of the water off your legs without hot rain pants.
You can pair this with some shoe covers and/or gaiters to keep your lower legs dry (or just wear shorts in hot weather and ...
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At a minimum, for cooler weather, I'd say you need to have at least the jacket part of a "sauna suit" -- a lightweight waterproof jacket. In some situations you will appreciate the pants as well. But, as the name implies, a "sauna suit" is incredibly uncomfortable when exert yourself in it, so it's nice to have something a bit less waterproof (but better ...
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Short answer: you won't stay dry. Your best option is to maintain comfortable body temperature.
Longer answer: What to wear depends how cold it is, how hard it's raining, and whether your bike is equipped with fenders. In the Pacific Northwe't, we have a lot of light rain and a moderate temperature band. I keep the fenders on year-round (which makes me ...
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Oftentimes, you sweat the most just when you finish the ride, as you've just been pedaling at full effort, but you don't get the wind generated by the moving bike. Oftentimes you need to stand around in a warm space, like I need to wait in the very warm freight elevator lobby. Try to take it easy especially for the end of the ride, and hold something cold ...
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