i did but still rode quicker than the club behind me – man at front commented at the lights, we have been trying to play cat and mouse with you! Didn’t see em after that – lol!
Nowt wrong with wearing baggies and MTB shoes on road bike! Lulls them into a false sense of security then you can whoop their butt! sod wearing skin tight lycra that just shouts out “whippet” to me … which I know I’m not!!!! Sticking to the baggies this end .
Just wear what you want, but be aware that most road bike riders will look at you in the same bemused way as you’d look at someone on a mountain bike in the middle of winter wearing skin-tight white roadie club Lycra…
The reason roadies wear Lycra is that it works, doesn’t billow on fast descents, road tops have pockets to stash food etc.
As you’re clearly super fast, you should maybe get yourself on a club run or two.
I think i may win a ‘looking like a prat’ dressed very inappropriate road riding gear for my epic 95 mile trip last week.
mtb shoes, kona socks, Altura waterproof shorts, over shimano under shorts(with thigh pads) Team Giant race top(from 90’s)in blue and a buff, No LID but full fingered sombrio gloves.
Its easy to ride away from a club that are out on a training ride. It’s the staying away for the next 80 miles when they are working together that’s the difficult bit.
somewhat suprisingly no one laughed or pointed. And there was a long grassy descent where i ran out of gears and ‘aero tucked’ and was very glad not to be ‘billowing about’.
Fair point though r-r, Nick Craig used to stir it up just by road racing in spd’s with a peak on his helmet…