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Commuting: Changing Clothes?
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:53:12 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote: On Oct 25, 7:02*pm, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote: Anybody got some ins and outs on clothes changing? I've been changing in the bathroom about 15' from my desk for the past year or so. * Works for me.... But last week, some guy got noticeably bent out of shape over it. "We have a locker room downstairs, you know...." Locker room downstairs adds a good twenty minutes to the commute. Gotta get to my desk, retrieve the shoes/slacks I have stashed there, walk though the building dressed totally inappropriately, change in a locker room where the humidity is about 110%, then walk back upstairs to my desk. Works for lunchtime workouts where somebody's carrying it a all in a gym bag. * Doesn't work for morning/evening commute. I'm guessing the guy's problem is that he wanted to use the crapper and found a full house - and one of them was changing clothes instead of reading the sports pages for a half hour. Anyhow... not to rant on and on... but does anybody have a workaround that works for them? -- PeteCresswell I use the only stall in the close bathroom too. My in house locker room is on the other side of the building. Not too inconvenient but it adds 3-4 minutes of walking. More room than the stall. I don't worry about being inappropriately dressed. If it's the only stall I don't think it's appropriate to change in there right before work unless you are super fast, or if you changing outside the staff would block access to the stall. Change in the men's room but outside. |
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Commuting: Changing Clothes?
On Oct 25, 4:02*pm, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:
I'm guessing the guy's problem is that he wanted to use the crapper and found a full house - and one of them was changing clothes instead of reading the sports pages for a half hour. So if you had been in there using the toilet, when you came out he would have said what? "Hey why'd you eat so damn much?" I think you should use the men's room as you see fit, and if this weasel doesn't like it, go all Tony Soprano on him. I mean WTF? ABS |
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On Oct 25, 7:02*pm, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:
Anybody got some ins and outs on clothes changing? Don't change! Get a proper bike that weighs 40# or so, and ride in wearing a three piece this time of year with some huge Savile Row shoes that engage the rubber block pedals more stiffly than most of Shimano's casual line. Don't forget your cycle clips and tweed cap. ;-) |
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I don't really give a damn about the other guy - it's my own
peace of mind I'm concerned with. But yet it seems as though you do care about the other guy, as you're looking for alternate options. :-) He's totally out of line on this one. I have yet to see rules posted for appropriate and inappropriate restroom use. Anyway, I've been changing in restroom stalls across several employers for the almost twenty years I've been commuting. I carry clothes with me in my pannier and if it's inconvenient to get to my desk first before changing, I just put my cycling shoes back on and change those at my desk. And I drape my cycling clothes around my cube as inconspicuously as possible to dry and no one's ever complained. Brian's "multitasking" comment is sure valid too. I guess I generally do that too. :-) Jeff |
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landotter wrote:
On Oct 25, 7:02 pm, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote: Anybody got some ins and outs on clothes changing? Don't change! Get a proper bike that weighs 40# or so, and ride in wearing a three piece this time of year with some huge Savile Row shoes that engage the rubber block pedals more stiffly than most of Shimano's casual line. Don't forget your cycle clips and tweed cap. ;-) I was going to say the same basic thing: Ride in your work clothes. My style's different from what landotter recommends ;-) but riding (reasonably) slow allows riding in normal clothes. (Reasonably slow for me is about 17 mph on the flats, depending on temperature.) - Frank Krygowski |
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On Oct 25, 8:02*pm, "(PeteCresswell)" wrote:
Anybody got some ins and outs on clothes changing? I've been commuting for close to 20 years and my company last year moved to new digs with a locker room. I too find the locker room generally inconvenient after having spent most of the 20 years changing in a stall in the bathroom on my floor. I also work late often (journalism) and the cleaning crews are at work, which makes it hard sometimes to change in the bathroom or the locker room, as often they are being cleaned. So .... I go to another floor. It's closer than the locker room and I can take the stairs instead of the elevator, so I don't have to wait as long. I used to leave my slacks at work, which would mean I had to go to my desk midweek and collect them before changing. Now I often haul them around daily. Shoes can be a problem. One solution is to get some Chinese slip-ons -- the one's that are black with the thin brown plastic soles. They're nice and flat in a bag and you can use them to get to your desk and your dress shoes and belt. The new building doesn't have much going on on the first floor, but it has some nice bathrooms with handicapped stalls. Plenty of room and not much demand. The other thing is to change where you like to change and take a nice long **** when you're done to legitimize your use of the stall. Cheers, MD |
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Per mnbikecommuter:
Anyway, I've been changing in restroom stalls across several employers for the almost twenty years I've been commuting. Have you had any encounters like the one I described? -- PeteCresswell |
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Per mnbikecommuter:
I don't really give a damn about the other guy I guess it's how somebody spins it. I'm always telling my Better Half that Mother Teresa was just as selfish as anybody on Wall Street - it's just that she worked out a way to get off on doing what most people would characterize as "good". -- PeteCresswell |
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Per Frank Krygowski:
I was going to say the same basic thing: Ride in your work clothes. My style's different from what landotter recommends ;-) but riding (reasonably) slow allows riding in normal clothes. (Reasonably slow for me is about 17 mph on the flats, depending on temperature.) 17 is about the top end of my pitiful aerobic capacity. Used to do 88 miles to the shore in under 4 hours every weekend in season.... but that was long long ago and far, far away. 18, I can hold for awhile, but no more than a five minutes. 20 for me is a sprint - totally unsustainable. Average speed on most rides to work is about 12, which includes a fair amount of 18, and a *lot* of 15-16. Maybe it's just me, but I'm pretty much soaked through and through after 40 minutes of riding. If I rode slowly enough not to sweat, I think it would drive me nuts. -- PeteCresswell |
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On Oct 28, 9:56*am, Frank Krygowski wrote:
I was going to say the same basic thing: *Ride in your work clothes. *My style's different from what landotter recommends ;-) *but riding (reasonably) slow allows riding in normal clothes. In this weather? Hardly. |
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