Lycra

[dyna-ti]

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Skinny folk look rubbish in lycra

:mrgreen:

Better than the other end of the spectrum.

 

[tintin40]

OMG sandals with socks :shock: :shock: :facepalm: :facepalm:

 

[Silvergoat]

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Ahoy there – he's apologised now http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-41092831 He may have had a point tho. Either way, lycra is a hard look to pull off, unless you're an elite olympian.

 

[legrandefromage]

Cycling should be seen as a method of transportation without the 'need' to clobber up in specialist gear just to go for a bike ride.

As before, those on the continent think we're nuts.

I just dress for the weather - am I going to be hot/ cold/ wet etc

 

[Silvergoat]

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Say like The Netherlands or Denmark or wherever where riding a bike is just a normal part of everyday life, Little Britain has marginalised people who ride bikes out of their own choice (imagine that) and made them into things – cyclists, who have to wear a special gimp-like uniform to mark them out as odd, outlaws, people who don't pay their way or conform to rules and therefore people to be feared and resented equally.

 

[ajm]

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I'm not really bothered with what other people think of me nearly so much as being bothered about my own comfort. If I'm going out for a cycle I want to be comfortable and for that reason I'll wear suitable cycling clothes - I'm not in the least interested in what some Continental might think, if they want to be uncomfortable that's their perverse choice!

In any case, he's speaking rubbish - does he really think that your average Italian middle aged cycling enthusiast wears everyday clothes when out on their bikes? Of course not, they're as keen on comfortable lycra as anyone else.

I know he's apologised since and I probably don't really fit the category he was aiming at with his comments anyway, but he really did make himself look like a bit of a stupid jerk with this one...

 

[legrandefromage]

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Pete, who is originally from Liverpool but currently lives in Berlin, says the British attitude to cycling - and particularly about what to wear while on two wheels - is very different to the attitudes of our Continental cousins.
"If you go to other places in Europe - in Amsterdam, or Copenhagen, or here in Berlin - people are riding around in everyday clothing," he says.
"I think people in the UK see cycling as a sport rather than a means of transport," he says, adding: "I think it creates an image of cycling that is undesirable and unattainable."
He also says the sight of a cyclist in full kit may also dehumanise them.
"When people are setting out in their full gear they don't look human. In Europe it is just a person on a bike rather than 'a cyclist'."
He says there has been a mini-revolution in what is available for cyclists to wear on rides, with specialist jeans and shirts available in lighter, more suitable materials.
"In the UK, we are associating cycling with riding the Tour de France," he adds, "and it is making it seem much harder than it should be to a lot of people."

 

[tintin40]

wearing street clothing is uncomfortable. A marketing op street clothing with lycra padding in the seat? Better than wearing shorts under trousers. Clarks shoes with spd cleats?

 

[dyna-ti]

Lycra is still going strong

 

[Woz]

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STOP PRESS

"serious" recreation cyclist especially but not exclusively on a road bike throughout the continent reach for lyrcra.