Bikes and Suits

[Spiderman]

I had this dillema last year when i first got a bike. Small office but I asked the boss and in his office there was a wardrobe so i could hang suit and leave shoes etc. Then it was just a clean shirt every morning. And for gods sake dont ride wearing a tie!
Protection is your main priority my friend. I wore those over trouser things until i had enogh money to get a decent pair from hein gerick, armour n all.
Now i can wear them all day with my boots.. evn in the office cos when clients come in i'm behind the desk... all they see is a nice shirt and trendy tie... they assume the rest.

Originally Posted by svpilot

Unless you 'have' to wear a suit, my tip would be to opt for trousers that are cut like jeans, they can still look smart when teamed up shirt and tie, but don't crease so easliy (and generallly you can get away with not ironing 'em )

Good luck with the job!

Yes, I have to wear a suit, and I quote from my letter "We would advise you to dress appropriately and request that you wear a suit with a shirt and tie". aaaahhhhh!

Spiderman: I like what you do with your clothing Unfortunately I can't do the same as I've been told that I'll be visiting courts, prisons and police stations (sounds good eh!?)

Originally Posted by TrojanHorse11

"We would advise you to dress appropriately and request that you wear a suit with a shirt and tie". aaaahhhhh!

Suggest you put your suit & shirts & tie in a backpack on day one, get there early and hang them up in the gents'. I doubt that anyone would object, they'll see it as interesting and funny. And when you come to apply for a job with them, they'll remember you as 'that biker bloke who used to get changed in the toilets' - from personal experience of having vacation students and work experience people, there'll be damn all to remember other work experience peeps by. And you can tell the clients about your bike, it'll break down barriers, again it'll give the partners something to remember. They'd have to be very stuffy not to like it.

[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by TrojanHorse11

Spiderman: I like what you do with your clothing Unfortunately I can't do the same as I've been told that I'll be visiting courts, prisons and police stations (sounds good eh!?)

Sound like your gonna enjoy your work experience. Hope you do

EVERYTHING that Sythree said is true and correct and agreed with imho.
You never know... even if they are old it dont mean they didnt have a bike at one point.
My next door neighbour is 78 and when i first got my bike (a whole 7 months ago now) he saw me and said "Ah bikes.... i used to have a BSA in my day... got married and the bike went. looked sad for a mo and then smiled and looked over the bike with the glee of a kid (well same as i did when i bought it too )

Do you have any idea how many strangers chat to me just cos they see the spidey lid? I never expected it when i bought the thing. i thought a few would smile but god it gets silly some days.
Not suggesting you get a Spidey lid or anything.. point i'm getting to is any lid or bike thing will by its nature stand you out in a crowd a bit.
How many times you been in a que some place and a biker is in it... you just notice it dont you.
Like if some fool was standing there dressed up as Spiderman. Not that i do like

I take my shoes, suit trousers and a shirt to work in a rucksack (folded and rolled), get changed in the loo.

On nights I tend to just stick a pair of trainers and jeans in the rucky, if all the day staff have left for the day I'll change in the office.

At the weekend I have been known to wear my leathers all day.

Guess I'm lucky, but I have a locker at work with 2 suits and up to 14 shirts, about 8 ties, 2 pairs of shoes and all my shower gear. I just shower at work, and have an account at the local dry cleaners which I pay every couple of weeks.

The bike is also parked in a locked compound under cover..... I can put up with all the crap as it pays well and it makes biking to work easy.

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[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by Jelster

Guess I'm lucky, but I have a locker at work with 2 suits and up to 14 shirts, about 8 ties, 2 pairs of shoes and all my shower gear. I just shower at work, and have an account at the local dry cleaners which I pay every couple of weeks.

The bike is also parked in a locked compound under cover..... I can put up with all the crap as it pays well and it makes biking to work easy.

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Perfect... they got any jobs going there mate ?

Originally Posted by Spiderman

Perfect... they got any jobs going there mate ?

seconded!

Originally Posted by northwind

though to be honest I doubt I'll be doing that any more, unless I can find cordura trousers with hip armour.

Have a look at RST Syncro Plus Jeans.

The blurb on them doesn't tell you that they have hip armour but I have a pair and can confirm that they do.
It might not be CE approved but is held in place in a velcro 'pouch' so you can replace it with anything you want (Knox, for example)!

I was wearing these when I had my accident and had not even so much as a bruise on any of my legs or hips, etc.
From the marks on my kit and having seen photographs of the accident scene, I would have expected to have had some kind of damage to this area.

Not bad for only a ton, too!!

HTH

The only one of my design jobs where I had to look smart was for a Pharmaceutical company... but we had a similar thing to Jelster.
Lockers, changing rooms showers etc - they were meant to be only for the techs who worked in the clean rooms, but I blagged a space there.

Had two new receptionists while I was working there both of who stopped me from going through to the offices as they thought I was a courier!

Most other offices I've worked at were a bit more forgiving on their dress code (if they had one) when they realised that a motorbike was my only real means of transport.