True cyclist?

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Is this the mark of a true cyclist?
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Warning: naked hairy wrists on show!

Every summer I get a deep tan line on the gap between my shorts and jersey
(damn that bend to the bars). Not too bad you might think, except that it
lasts for almost an entire year, and whenever I bend over I flash what
looks, on first glance, to be the top of a thong.

I've since bought shorts with a higher back.

Quoting del <[email hidden]>:

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Is this the mark of a true cyclist?
<URL: http://www.cychike.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/handies/index.html>
Warning: naked hairy wrists on show!

When I wore tight-fitting summer gloves, I'd get a crosshatch tan pattern.
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Quoted message said:

Is this the mark of a true cyclist?
<URL: http://www.cychike.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/handies/index.html>
Warning: naked hairy wrists on show!

Every summer I get a deep tan line on the gap between my shorts and jersey
(damn that bend to the bars). Not too bad you might think, except that it
lasts for almost an entire year, and whenever I bend over I flash what
looks, on first glance, to be the top of a thong.

I've since bought shorts with a higher back.

Carry enough stuff in your jersey pockets and it will sag to cover the
gap. :-)

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Is this the mark of a true cyclist?
<URL: http://www.cychike.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/handies/index.html>
Warning: naked hairy wrists on show!

You should also have pale bits for your socks, shorts, jersey, glasses
(and helmet if worn). Do bald people get stripey heads from the vents
in their helmets?

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except that it
lasts for almost an entire year

My mitt tan lasts the year as well but it gets very faded by the start
of the new year.
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del 8-)

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When I wore tight-fitting summer gloves, I'd get a crosshatch tan
pattern.

I don't think that the pair I currently wear are tight enough for that
and you'd be hard pressed to tell between the grid spots and the
freckles. I should have tanned fingers midway down their length, a bit
like the shorts tan line halfway down on the thigh.
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del 8-)

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You should also have pale bits for your socks, shorts, jersey, glasses
(and helmet if worn).  Do bald people get stripey heads from the vents
in their helmets?

All those except for helmet, don't need a hanging basket on my head, and
the socks are being replaced by sandal straps.
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del 8-)

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Is this the mark of a true cyclist?
<URL: http://www.cychike.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/handies/index.html>
Warning: naked hairy wrists on show!
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del 8-)

Call that a tan?

http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Vernon/photo#5047412579156258306

Warning: horses and timid ladies are known to have been distressed by this
view.

I've just bought a new pair of knitted string backed gloves for this year's
seasonal mehndi.

-=V=- =8-)

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Call that a tan?

For me that is a tan, seeing as how I'm a pale, easy burn, Englishman.

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http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Vernon/photo#5047412579156258306

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Warning: horses and timid ladies are known to have been distressed by
this view.

Where as I see you are a jolly gap toothed Samoan chap. ;-)
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del 8-)

del said:

Is this the mark of a true cyclist?
<URL:http://www.cychike.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/handies/index.html>
Warning: naked hairy wrists on show!
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del 8-)

But be careful, you could be mistaken for a sailor 🙂
John Kane, Kingston ON Canada

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Call that a tan?

For me that is a tan, seeing as how I'm a pale, easy burn, Englishman.

Check the tan line on my arm that's ten day's worth of cycling in August.

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http://picasaweb.google.com/vernonlevy/Vernon/photo#5047412579156258306

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Warning: horses and timid ladies are known to have been distressed by
this view.

Where as I see you are a jolly gap toothed Samoan chap. ;-)
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Another offers other than Samoan??

vernon wrote on 13/04/2007 21:45 +0100:

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Check the tan line on my arm that's ten day's worth of cycling in August.

You'll need to wash off some of that road grime your arms and face are
covered in first ;-)

--
Tony

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there
is no good evidence either way."
- Bertrand Russell

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Another offers other than Samoan??

Leeds
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del 8-)

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Another offers other than Samoan??

Trinidad via Yorkshire?

:-)

vernon said:

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Where as I see you are a jolly gap toothed Samoan chap. ;-)
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Another offers other than Samoan??

Was that not the second "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" reference
in as many days?

Brendan
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