Anyone who knows me can testify that I have zero colour co-ordination.

Since buying a road bike I’ve realised something….

So my bike is a sort of baby blue

Then this weekend at the Tour stall I tried to buy a Yorkshire tour shirt in yellow. They only had blue so I thought **** I need something…they only had this

Cheap on Merlin, I wanted black. They only had these

Jesus wept. I’m going to look stoopid.

going to ?

Personalised jersey eh? 😉

Keep the bib shorts as etxeondos tag line is, aptly enough, ‘special cycling’

I’m going to look stoopid.

Not as stupid as the bloke I followed in traffic the other evening. White bib shorts with a kind of black g-string modesty insert

Just looked like a massive milky white arse

I think it’ll look awesome… Sort of in the same way that a big smurf on a bike might look awesome. Hope you have a white helmet…

O!!!M!!!!G!!!!! Hora in Lycra?!!!!!

BLUE LYCRA?!!!!!

My Mrs has a liking for that colour Hora.
🙂

Grips, cages, lid and jacket so far..it’s a slippy slope mate.
Bontrager for the bike bits, Giro for the lid.

And we’ll say no more about it.

How’s the bike?

Very German!

The Etxeondo Dicolor’s bib shorts look a bargain at 45. I guess the price makes up for the ‘colour’.

My first proper shorts (apart from the Endura Singletrack inserts shorts I’m currently riding on my road bike).

Grips, cages, lid and jacket so far..it’s a slippy slope mate.

Erm, (theres no easy way to say this…)

I’ve also got this fitted

Although I do have black tape, black bars all kit black.

Jesus wept.

Should have got:

Photos or it didn’t happen.

pics or it didn’t happen.

Images or it don’t happens

Good call Jamie, I can just put this br’an one on the mountain bike

Proof:

I disagree – the brown could set the look off nicely.

The only circumstance, the ONLY, where light blue lycra shorts would be acceptable is if you are contractually obliged to wear them by your proteam sponsor.

Don’t forget the fists of power..

look better with silver post/stem, white bars/tape

Why not pair with a nice smart-casual outfit for post-ride activities?

light blue lycra shorts would be acceptable is if you are contractually obliged to wear them by your proteam sponsor.

or they were ridiculously cheap, £45 isn’t cheap enough IMO.

slippery slope indeed, brown saddle was a bad move – now even I’m thinking you need to get brown tape. Of course a better idea would be sticking a black saddle back on and ignoring all colour co-ordination in future and just ride the ruddy thing.

Could be worse Hora – you could be Scottish

Black Bar tape and a brown saddle?
😐

You need a blue helmet.

Sorry, but you need to go further – helmet needs to be white with matching white shoes with the blue outfit I reckon. I think anything but black shorts are wrong, even from a colour matching perspective, black leaves black helmet/shoe/sock option even with light colours.

proteam sponsor.
or they were ridiculously cheap, £45 isn’t cheap enough IMO.

I thought about what might be cheap enough, and then I thought that if these shorts ever seemed cheap enough you probably have other more pressing concerns than riding a bike.

It’s a road bike. A couple of hours grinding around dull B-roads is likely to give you a blue helmet isn’t it?

The bibs can go back. Priest-black it is.

Let’s hope the brown doesn’t come out of the saddle!!

Hora earlier.

Sweet Lord Beefy, did you have that image on hand just for such a thread? 😯

I think I saw a few guys aiming for that crown yesterday ahead of Le tour in Cambridge village, if you are a little rounder in the middle, do you need to demonstrate it with Lycra?

Hora, stick with the blue, start on the Halgfos (or whatever their name is) monochrome range 🙂

They are all different blues 🙁

I think I saw a few guys aiming for that crown yesterday ahead of Le tour in Cambridge village

Sheffield on Sunday had some of the most shocking examples of the ‘burst black pudding’ look I’ve ever seen. More oddly mis-shaped man vegetables squashed into too-tight lycra than you could shake a cattle prod at!

Clearly a lot of roadies don’t possess either mirrors, or a partner who doesn’t have the honesty to point at them and dissolve into mocking hysterics 😯

GrahamS – Member

great minds think alike – at the same time too… Isn’t it funny that the blues have been pushed really heavily in one photo and not the other?

Howies black bib shorts ok?

Howies black bib shorts ok?

Yes.

This would look good when paired with some black shorts
White lid as well , white Oakleys with green iridium lenses
Avoid the stealth Black /Black /Sky look, too invisible in the summer sun when trees shade the road and drivers do not remove their sunnies

How do those Exteondo bibs compare to mid range Sportful or higher end DHB stuff?