One of the defining online content types around is the Hot Take. In an obvious and selfish attempt to capitalize on this trend, and in order to drive clicks and shares to this bike website, I am happy to introduce the latest entry in a segment called: ‘In Defense Of’. Please share this on all your social media with your own take about my take, especially if you are mad about my take. Thank you. —Cullen MacDonald

The weather has turned. Gone are the sweaty and humid morning workouts, the long hot days in the saddle. We’ve arrived at the point in the Earth’s rotation around the sun when, in the northern hemisphere, the mornings feel like winter and the afternoons feel like a cool spring day. There are a few questions that always come up around this time. Should you take a rest week (or month)? How to stay motivated with less sunlight? Do you put socks on over or under leg warmers?

But something that isn’t talked about nearly enough is the extremely pro and effortlessly cool look of wearing leg warmers and not wearing arm warmers. Hear me out.

All experts agree that if the weather is below 60 degrees, you should have your knees covered. Knee warmers almost always look dumb, so that means you’re left with leg warmers as your only option. However, because the weather can change from morning to afternoon, you may end up feeling a little hot. If you are feeling too hot, but it is still under 60 degrees, you have only one logical option: Take off your arm warmers but leave your leg warmers on. Too much energy is spent by amateurs trying to look the way a pro does in a bike race and not the way a pro looks while training.

Thats it. It’s as simple a discussion as that. Take off your arm warmers but leave your leg warmers on. Anyone who teases or makes fun of you or says it looks bad is wrong and is just jealous of how cool you look.

PS. socks go over leg warmers if they are different color from the leg warmers, and under if they are the same.

Editors Note: no picture of any pro could be found to serve as a cover image for what Cullen is proposing. Take that as you will.