Are Ron Hills, those baggy lycra longs folk used to wear with trainers - pre SPD era!?
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How old are your Ron Hills?
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got a pair thats 15+ years old and a newer pair only about 8 years old
if thier good enough for the Royal Marines thier good enough for me
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Also very comfy under motorcycle leathers. Mine about 15yrs old still plenty of life left too.
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I got mine out and they still fit!
With the HH supaLifa Wear striped top, it sure takes me back, mostly to BAOR in 1983-87.
Not sure they're suitable to be seen on a bike but I rather like the idea that they should be worn with sandals. How about off-white sports socks too?
It's what every well dressed 45+yr old is wearing in town this weekend!Posted 2 years ago # -
IMO, there is a wonderful aesthetic into which Ronhills fit brilliantly well. It is not a fashionable one though, and is flattering only to people who look really quite tough, with odd, stringy walnut brown muscles, and have a 1000 yard stare, grey eyes and crow's feet.
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They are made of nasty scratchy material that clings and rides up in the wrong places so you look like Max Wall. Also they do not suit people like me who have fat arses
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if thier good enough for the Royal Marines thier good enough for me
Well, if you see someone in Tracksters and say "you look ridiculous", if it's a marine he will probably cut you up and eat your liver, whereas I will cry and run away.
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Ron Hills? Pah! Proper unfashionable cyclists wear those horrible saggy thermal tights with the world champion bands round the ankles.
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(Mr M-C posting) still got a pair I bought in early '90s when I first started riding. M-C loves em. Honest.
Seriously, now only wear em as wicking base layer under my motorcycle leathers.
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Who cares what Ron Hills look like? At least they don't look like this:
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EURGH...Glen which one is you though??
Okay show us pics of your Ron Hills!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Posted 2 years ago # -
The expression "as old as the hills" is actually a reference to the fact that most people own a pair of 1989 Ron Hills.
Not a lot of people know that.
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At least they don't look like this
My eyes, dear God, my eyes!
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Ancient. Still work tho.
They are the ideal anti-fashion statement when combined with a faded purple Buffalo mountain top.Posted 2 years ago # -
Does TJ approve of the helmet [pun intended] on the left though?
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IMO, there is a wonderful aesthetic into which Ronhills fit brilliantly well. It is not a fashionable one though, and is flattering only to people who look really quite tough, with odd, stringy walnut brown muscles, and have a 1000 yard stare, grey eyes and crow's feet.
I know the former special forces PTI to whom you refer, or a chap very similar
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My Mrs. looks pretty good in them. With veery long legs, the styrrups just under the calf muscle do it for me.
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