poncing around in Lycra

[Jamiedyer]

Re: Lycra garbed pratts

Hey Al, nobody who rides a 65 King of Mercia could ever be called a Pratt
Especially half the year fixed
Pictures?
(of the Mercian of course, not yourself in shorts)

Jamie

 

[bagpuss]

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I reckon people reading and posting on this thread must be bored due to the long christmas break ...for most....never mind back to work soon :?:

reaches for popcorn....

 

[legrandefromage]

Re: Lycra garbed pratts

Aggggh!!! Gerbils!

 

[Jamiedyer]

Re: Lycra garbed pratts

Yeah, not used to a quiet break, but back to work tomorrow.

 

[Pionir]

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We should all be brothers on bikes

I don't discriminate. After all, everyone's entitled to *my* opinion.

 

[ultrazenith]

Re: Lycra garbed pratts

The only lycra I ever felt good in was my 1994 Dyna-Tech jersey:

Nowadays, I mostly wear Endura baggy shorts with the padded insert, and a T-shirt, mostly because I fear a long walk home getting weird looks in lycra if my bike breaks down mid ride.

Nowadays, full lycra is reserved for racing.

 

[BigFoz]

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Try riding 20+ miles in your suit. Then doing a day in the office, then riding home in same suit. How long would it last? How long would your *ss last?
Try being a little less judgemental, or we'll have to start a "Suit garbed pratts" thread...

 

[Pionir]

Re: Lycra garbed pratts

I wear lycra when riding my road racer but when on my tourer or MTB I usually wear my Endura shorts or Keela longs, but the Enduras have a lycra short inside.
I may be classed as a Mamil but when you have been wearing it since you were much younger ( with a wash though) then that's not a good term, especially if you've been riding all your life. It classes everyone of a certain age as a newbie wanna be.
I know the ones you mean, there is a person near to me who works off shore and took up riding last spring, passes me all the time in his team SKY gear, head to toe, on his Pinarello Dogma. You don't see him out much now its cold.
Personally I get more amusement from the mtb boys who have a snigger at my old steel 1X1 or Pugsly singlespeed while pushing a bicycle shaped object up a climb but riding the same trails down but dressed in every piece of body armour looking like a plastic stormtrooper.
On a personal note it doesn't really matter what you wear when riding as long as your riding, the examples mentioned above are a couple of amusing individuals but I would rather they were riding their bikes than not. I'm not the bicycle police and so what it means to me is maybe not what it means to anyone else. That's what I like about it, its always peronal, whether racing mtb or riding the road, touring etc.


Jamie

With you all the way. I'm a MAMIL but it's all stuff I bought as a teenager in the late 80s. It's just much more designed for use than jeans and a t-shirt and more comfortable.

I'm just chuffed so many more people are cycling. I never dreamed it could be like this when I was bombing around the country lanes 25yrs ago never seeing another rider. And it'll have the knock on effect of more sons and daughters getting into cycling and hopefully being a bit more considerate to cyclists when they're old enough to drive.

I find modern bike geometry ugly but I'm sure alot of people see "old" bikes as weird and gangly too. Of course they're just wrong and don't know it, but that's a topic for next Christmas

 

[Jamiedyer]

Re: Lycra garbed pratts

I must add that my cartoon above is all in good humour.
When I ride my road bike I wear my lycra and my helmet so I am not being judgemental in any way.
I don't discriminate at all, I extract the urine out of anyone, myself included.
But I do like the sound of 'The suite garbed pratts' thread

Jamie

 

[Jamiedyer]

Re: Lycra garbed pratts

Things could always be worse