Commuting in a suit?

Ever since I got my Nighthawk I've been using it for work. I'm an IT
consultant and go to several different customers on any given day. I
can manage business casual, but one of my customers insists on coat and

If you have a client that insists on a mode of dress, then
you're not a consultant. You're an employee.

Does anyone commute with a coat and tie

tie. Does anyone commute with a coat and tie or suit? Assuming you
want to dress properly for riding, how do you manage it? I don't want
to be rolling my sport coat up and stuffing it in my tank bag.

Could you buy a riding suit big enough to fit over the suit?

For some reason I thought a riding suit over my dress suit would cause
major wrinkles. Can someone confirm they do this and it works? I'm
sorry, but I'm ignorant on this. In all the miles I've ridden, I've
never had to arrive with dress clothes on.

If you're getting manor wrinkles in a business suit from wearing it
under a riding suit then it's a poor quality suit. Good suits aren't
particularly easy to wrinkle. Unfortunately they also aren't
particularly cheap.

If it looks like this,

no.

Otherwise, I second the Aerostich recommendation.

I used to do that. In cold weather I'd wear a snowmobile suit.

BMW used to offer an overall suit or two specifically so that you
could wear a business suit under their rider's outfit, but I am not
sure if they do that any more. You might look at a BMW clothing
catalog. IIRC that was the "city suit" and perhaps you could find one
on eBay.

Yep, it was the BMW "City Suit." But it wasn't a "riding" suit; way too
thin. It's sole purpose was to keep bugs off your business suit.

One of the old timers in my office used to keep his sport coat rolled in a
plastic bag. When we went to a special meeting he would remove the bag
from his desk drawer, pull the suit out of the bag, unroll it, and put it
on. Once finished with it, the coat was rolled up placed into the bag,
and then into the desk drawer till the next time is was needed.

Find a material, color, and pattern that doesn't wrinkle much and doesn't
show wrinkles much, lightly tie the bag onto the bike, and un-wrap when at
your destination.

I've done it.
I was a property assessor for many years and had to appear regularly
at tribunals with a dress code.
I used to just keep a jacket at work for which I had 3 or 4 shirts and
ties that went with it.
If I needed to wear it to or from home I had a lightweight riding
jacket a size larger that fit over it.
I also had a pair of ballistic nylon riding pants that went over the
pants.
If conditions weren't good I just took the bus.

Aerostich.

No, I don't actually wear a suit under my 'Stich. But if I *did* need
to wear a suit to work, it's the 'Stich that I'd have to wear over it!

All you need to do is order a Darien (or Roadcrafter) by Aerostich
that's the right size to cover you and your suit jacket, and you'll be
. . . COVERED!!

consider:

pooder was here, having recently ordered his Darien in Hi-Viz

Thanks. I'd love to have one, but I can't afford it.

Two possible answers here.

First, check out other fabrics if your coat wrinkles. Silk is among
the best. I have a silk houndstooth tweed 'office jacket' that I
found at Goodwill for almost nothing. I can virtually sleep in it and
it won't hold wrinkles.

Or maybe the answer is not the clothing but your accommodations for
it. As long as you don't roll it too tightly or too long, most sport
coats will not wrinkle noticeably. If you get a nice set of side bags
with more room for your coat (tie, shirt, etc.), it also gives you a
place to put your riding gear while inside working.

I've done it, the coat flaps a lot and sometimes the tie gets carried away
(I tuck it in my shirt). Of course, I'm not fanatical about "protection",
whilst riding.
Manufacturers offer pretty fine protective jump suits that will fit over
just about anything you can wear.