ededwards":1ckjdho2 said:
fingers":1ckjdho2 said:
Whilst I have no objection to looking like a roadie, I was under the illusion that retro MTBers should be wearing boots, jeans and lumberjack shirts, along with long hair and taches, a la 70s???
This is about dressing like a gentleman cyclist. Think Havers and act in the spirit.
I'm beginning to form the impression that you don't think mountain bikers are gentlemen, or at least they don't look like them. So they should therefore dress as retro roadies, in order to give an impression of gentility. But among other things that means not wearing a helmet, and while insouciance may well be a gentlemanly quality, that would be taking insouciance to insane lengths - even if I possessed the level of skills that you have told us about in your previous instructional essays.
Admittedly I'm from down south, where gentlemen may possibly be slightly more laid back than northern gentlemen, but down here I would say that gentlemen often tend to dress quite like the more casual kind of mountain bikers, and never dress like retro roadies.
