What is wrong with looking like a 12 year old skater ?

anyway can I go back to my original assumption that

Baggies are the off road version of shaving your legs

mattsccm you’re thinking of rapha touring shorts, very nice, very comfortable shorts.

Something like this then, matt? Definitely won’t make you look like a 12 year old skater.

anyway can I go back to my original assumption that

Baggies are the off road version of shaving your legs

surely shaving your legs is the off road version of shaving your legs?

Will your dad be happy with you posting his pic on the internet aracer?

Fascinating, this “being gay” thing.

Say I’m wearing some revealing clothes. Another man, who regards himself as a heterosexual, feels odd looking at me wearing my clothes, and concludes that I am gay.

😆

surely shaving your legs is the off road version of shaving your legs?

Well yes, but most people don’t understand that – makes removing the mud really easy ……..

Thanks BigDummy I’d never realised, must be why I like quiche

how the rest of world sees anyone wearing lycra;

What a great debate! I’m going to wade in with the following statement…..I think lycra looks ****. There, i said it. The fact is i don’t want to look like a nob when out on my bike. Fine if you like it, i don’t.

I see no advantage to wearing lycra on its own. I care what i look like walking down the street and the same goes for when i’m cycling.

How the rest of the world sees anyone wearing baggies:

Another man, who regards himself as a heterosexual, feels odd looking at me wearing my clothes, and concludes that I am gay.

I think you’re confusing repressed desire and morbid curiosity. If looking at someone and feeling a bit sick means you fancy them, what does it say about you and octo-porn? 🙂

😀 Thats exactly how i dress!

has no-one who wears just lycra ever fallen off? Clearly not because you’d only have to do it once and ride home with your bollocks hanging out of the huge hole that’s been created in your lycra to learn that one.

I speak from experience.

what does it say about you and octo-porn

That I am a sick fetishist with a bizarrely unhinged and deviant sexuality who should probably be castrated for his own safety. I reckon. 😉

I think all the Lycra Massive should take heed from Samuri’s tale of woe. 😕

Although I think lycra looks a bit unsightly on people with a middle aged spread (like the one I’ve had since I was 4) I think the “gay” thing is an unfair slur, probably arising from the singer from Right Said Fred donning a pair of cycling shorts for their appearance on Top of the Pops. Thousands of homophobes across Britain reacted with horror, much as they had done to Boy George and Liberace (although bizarrely not Cliff Richard), and lycra shorts and gayness became inextricably entangled in the popular mind, even though it was only a tiny minority of a minority who ever wore them.

I still think it looks rubbish though.

Baggies:
Pocket.
can be worn out of the bike when it’s hot.
Comfy.
Lycra
no pocket (and some off us have a rugsack so no access to the rear pocket that actually does not exit with off road clothes)
Very un-comfy I tried to wear one last week and I just couldn’t stand being in such restraining piece of clothing.

Plus as samuri said lycra are “crash-disposable”

No one in saying they are not good to ride in but their main function is to make you look like all other mountain bikes, ie so you fit in. A bit like EMO’s wearing black

no pocket (and some off us have a rugsack so no access to the rear pocket that actually does not exit with off road clothes)

That will be a Camelbak (other types of hydration packs are available )that you are talking about that has “pockets” in it, so you don’t need them on your shorts and as said earlier you don’t really wants stuff in them if you do come off.

Very un-comfy I tried to wear one last week and I just couldn’t stand being in such restraining piece of clothing.

Give it time and you appreciate then feeling of support and protection you get from the shiny material

You will be telling me next you don’t like the feeling of minty a**e lard on your undercarriage next !

Very un-comfy

Given baggies effectively have lycra inside them (the less comfortable version with waist bands – what I want are bib-baggies, why does nobody make them?), how does that one work?

hat will be a Camelbak (other types of hydration packs are available )that you are talking about that has “pockets” in it

Well it does have pocket but they are not accessible on the fly as mostly closed with a zip.
I find a map and some chocolate bar to be very armless if I come off.

I often wear a proper rucksack, not just a camelbak when riding (see pic above), and don’t find a problem with reaching the rear pockets – I’m guessing your problem with this comes from ignorance due to not actually owning such a top.

they are not accessible on the fly

One word for you yoga!

or stop occasionally and take in the scenery- I find a very good time to do that is just before you throw up on a climb ….

I agree about the bib issue, I would buy them like a shot – or maybe a mix and match range that you can change around

“I find a map and some chocolate bar to be very armless if I come off. “

I take it you’re not carrying an A-Z.

Do surfers have the same problems? ‘Well, I’ve started wearing my boardshorts over my wettie, cos people may see my bulge, and I don’t want people to think I’ve got gay tendencies from wearing tight clothes…..’

On a similar note, why do riders at trail centres wear baggies over tights at this time of year? Do the tights go under the built in liner shorts? Do they think that all of those rufty, tufty real MTBers will laugh at them for showing their butts if they wear lycra shorts under the tights? Wearing tights under baggies is deeply uncool, from any point of view.

As is the guy who wheeled the Santa Cruz away from the Dropoff Cafe wearing his baggies over his Ronhills a few weeks ago.

<Shakes head, wanders off to take up carp fishing or some activity with less clothing issues than getting muddy in the woods like a 10 yr old.>

Up until back end of last summer I was a committed wearer of lycra shorts (have worn baggy tops for years) but then I’m quite body confident & comfortable with my sexuality so no issues there – and according to a female friend who was admiring me from behind (at least until she recognised me) as quite complementary

Then tried on a mated pair of endure mt500 baggies – they felt very comfy and practical to ride in – I’m now a total convert baggie defiantly for off road – although still lycra for the darkside

I’m guessing your problem with this comes from ignorance due to not actually owning such a top.

D’oof i miss this one… I shall rather said the problem come from your ignorance about how to
Carry a rugsac
Choose a size of clothes that fit…

I was a committed wearer of lycra shorts (have worn baggy tops for years)

Oh dear me.. baggy top and lycra shorts – makes you look like a weekend cyclist circa 1990. you’ll be wearing karrimor boots, a rucksack and a hard hat too then?

I wore lycra out in the hills yesterday. Mainly because my baggies were all dirty. I also wore a tight top to match tho. I must say that a good pair of lycra shorts is very much more functional for riding than baggies. But I usually MTB in baggies cos I like the look.

I prefer lycra for the feeling (no, not the thigh rubbing sort of feeling) – i.e. it gets in the way less, minds its own business etc but it really doesnt suit my 16st frame and I feel a bit odd walking into a cafe wearing it. But maybe this is linked to the fact that I’ve always liked baggy clothes, “fitted” stuff has never fitted me properly (seems no-one makes clothes for a tall person with broad shoulders – you have to be either tall and skinny or short and fat). So baggy clothes are just more comfy and nice – just as at home on the bike as off. But then I wear baggies on the beach too, even over a wetsuit,

– they get abuse there too strangely, apparently there’s wetsuit fetishists there as well “no no you must wear just the rubber, baggies are gay….”…hmmmm

Molegrips – trust me as a weekend cyclist from the 1990 – I look so much better – aim for the casual athlete in the hills look

Changed my mind. Lycra all the way:

seems no-one makes clothes for a tall person with broad shoulders – you have to be either tall and skinny or short and fat

Yup I do agree, I have to buy women or children stuff 🙁

Ummmm, I wear tights under baggies, and I think it makes great sense.

I’ve always used lycra on mountain bikes, being from a generation of people who saw it as a sport rather than a car-park fashion show…….

Wearing lycra on a mountain bike is the best way to destroy it, and if you buy spendy lycra to use on the road, why trash it off road for the sake of looking a certain way?

To my mind, the funniest thing is seeing the stormtroopers with bright red legs freezing half to death because they haven’t the imagination to think up a winter outfit.

most of the folks i ride with have been riding for years,most wear lycra 3/4 or whatever.. the view seems to be that there are mountainbikers who actually ride and then there is the trail centre fashion show which is not the same thing.
probably all a bit wide and sweeping but there y go.

most of the folks i ride with have been riding for years,most wear lycra 3/4 or whatever

Most of the folks i ride with have been riding for years,most wear baggies, baggies 3/4 or whatever.

Each to their own I guess.

I’m wondering how much some people crash, as the only damage I’ve inflicted on lycra recently was to the knee of my tights (which wearing baggies wouldn’t really have helped with!)