How come that girly clothes are always more coloured, more funky, more original than bloke riding clothes?
I have just had a look to the maloja catalog and why cant they do the same nice clothes for the blokes????
I want nice and coloured and funky clothes to ride my bike too…

http://www.transvestites-r-us.com

Just wear the womens stuff then. Tranny biking….how niche is that?

Just wear the womens stuff then.

I try as much as I can, but there is some shape problems sometimes…

Two words: Team Mapei

How come that girly clothes are always more coloured, more funky, more original than bloke riding clothes?

speak for yourself, i waited years for cycling gear that WAS’NT foul, lurid and garish (same with motorcycle gear).

give me flat black, maybe the odd grey detail, signed off with a carefully placed subtle logo any day!

sombrio stuff is pretty garish at times.

anyway, speak for yourself. i’m not a sad git.

I know where Juan is coming from on this one, (Although he’d wear stuff I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole 😉 ) I get sick of black and grey myself, although it does have it’s place.
I’ve got some stuff in other colours, but it seems you can get some really nice jerseys from the USA, like my Poison Spider one or the Twin-Six stuff. Sombrio make some decent gear but some of it is a bit too ‘freeride’ for my liking. I’ve got some plain green shorts of theirs.

I do have to be careful at the minute, mind, I’ve got a brown bike, a brown helmet and a brown Camelbak…. And I keep thinking of buying some brown shorts, which would be too much, methinks.

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Juan, the biggest adjustment I had to make when coming from a hot country to here was the colours in the clothes.

How many different shades of grey and brown can the British invent? – they lead the world in this 🙂

Although he’d wear stuff I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole

Give it time 😉

anyway, speak for yourself. i’m not a sad git.

You are doing mtb and posting on STW hence you fulfill all the condition to be a sad git 😀

epicyclo – He’s right you know….
🙂

How many different shades of grey and brown can the British invent?

Grey
Light grey
Dark grey
Motorway grey
A road grey
Pearl grey
battle ship grey
WWI battle ship grey
Brown
Mud brown
Mud fest brown
MM mud fest brown
Desert storm brown
Light desert storm brown
And I probably miss some

You are doing mtb and posting on STW hence you fulfill all the condition to be a sad git

haha, fair point!

I’m sure you could get some white material shipped across from France to get some cycling clothes made up from, then you could tie-dye the lot.

😀

That is, of course, if the French don’t have some national need for white material which inhibits their ability to spare you some.

then you could tie-dye the lot.

Now that is a plan! Could make some obscenely garish clothing that way, soooo what material is used to make jerseys?

And simultaneously you will accuse pink-lycra-wearing roadies of all sorts of crimes against fashion. You walk a fine line when you stray from gray. 😀

Well bigdummy you can wear nice shorts and nice top. You don’t have to clash the colour. There is a whole lot between all black/gray and the road stuff 😉

Your eye for an outfit is probably better than mine, but my favourite riding shirt at the moment is a Quicksilver thing in bright electric blue with white, bleck and green bits for pretending to be a surfer in. I got it from the TK Maxx WTF OMG rail, and as well as being a bold colour it was pleasingly cheap. 🙂

it was pleasingly cheap.

Well that is another point, but I find the girl section of the maloja website mucho nicer than the bloke section.

Black and grey riding gear is just so boring. Everyone in the uk seems to have the same dreary endura/altura shorts, tops and jackets. Dull!

Where is it dictated that you wear cycling clothes. Try wearing some normal fashion focused items. TBF, on more focused rides like races or enduros the cut specific clothes can be/are better but normal rides you can wear whatever you like.
I some times ride in a nice fetching (garish/tasteless) Hawaiian type shirt. Might try a nice stretchy suit one day 😉

If it’s good enough for John Cash, “Thats Why I am the man in black”.

I was thinking the very same thing as Juan as I tried on the Maloja stuff in Biketreks. The women’s colourways are just better, no question!

Stuff that is bright (without being garish!) always looks better in photos. The current obsession with earth colours baffles me.

Cheers

Sanny

I’ve got a brown helmet

hehehehe

ROLF at wolf…
Well I am quite proud peter is colour coordinated now. He use to make you wish you were colour blind.

Juan – let me know if you want a nice red and white mlehworld jersey.

ROFLMAO @druidh
Pink is more my colour you know 😉

I rocked into Evans the other day, wanting to try on a stunning white belted coat they had in the window. It was for ladies. The gents version was a regular black riding waterproof. Very disappointed… 😥

http://www.groundeffect.co.nz – some toned down kit here.