While going through the loft found these, issue 4 of MBUK Jan 1991 22 years ago, I am the one top right, The Race was the Cheshire Classic we organized in October every year.
The second image was used as the cover shot of a video for the national race series (My only claim to fame)
The reason for wearing the truly horrific creations was a friend who made them.
Come on if you rode in the 80’s and 90’s now is the time to come out of the closet and reveal all

Front Cover Shot

Do not be ashamed be proud. this era of lycra is possibly the greatest era of lycra ever. Let’s face it lycra is the greatest form of clothing known to mankind.

lycra is the greatest form of clothing known to mankind.

[ahem]

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Lose the bikes and replace with horses, doesn’t look so bad

I had a purple Marin pertex watrproof jacket.

It matched by bars, stem & bottle cages.
I got rid after I heard someone describing me as a Ribena Berry 😀

Lycra makes you look well cool, thats a fact

it’s so obvious which photos will be rolled out for this thread (again)
Exhibit 1, above 🙂

(goes a bit funny over JT Bones helmet cover)

[ohtheshame]
by ‘eck – that brings back memories – early 90’s my ‘thermals’ were Second Skins from a factory sale at Troll (climbing gear) – worn under baggies – 1cm wide, vertical stripes in purple & yellow.
Perhaps fortunately, I know of no photographic evidence…
[ /ohtheshame]
8)
actually – the ribena berry and yellow sky in rusty’s pic. are a touch too close to the truth….

lycra is the greatest form of clothing known to mankind.

[ahem]

On the correct person it is the greatest form of clothing known to man.

Come on, dust off the scanners you know the images we want.

On the correct person it is the greatest form of clothing known to man.

you are, of course, right.

As we all await the photo of the Polish squad in their red and white kit

On the correct person it is the greatest form of clothing known to man.

And another obvious one for brooess (one of Mario’s more restrained outfits)

The reason for wearing the truly horrific creations was a friend who made them

Was that before or after he made outfits for PSB videos?

My lycra was no better, I also had some lyrca shorts and tight that looked like jeans. I suppose the original jeggins. Bloody awful but wish I still had them in a way!

Thank you Janesy, saved me looking for that in work!

Polish guy 2nd from left looks sad

2nd from right looks smug

And I do not care to suggest what Polish guy on the right is thinking

Lime green; would look so wrong on so many.

Makes me swoon

stop it. look at the mess you’ve made on the internet, now some poor sod is going to have to clean all this up.

disgusting.

Judge not what you wore 20 years ago, because everyone was wearing the same!

Can’t find any pictures of it (probably a good thing!) but does anyone remember the old Schmoo’s Cycles race kit? From late 90’s. Fluoro pink shorts, fluoro yellow top. God it was hideous.

Top work Flashy!
Edit: is that The Pipeline at Plymouth?

Damn. Schmoos. Beaten to it. There was a bike shop in Lockwood, Huddersfield that had a race team at the same time that wore pretty rotten lumo gear but their name escapes me. They rode square section Paces.

The Polish guys, why don’t their helmets match?

Wheelspin are in Lockwood, but havent always been. Or The proper bike co? That shut up years ago though.

Nah the old place that’s now a fireplace shop or sommat on the main road into Huddersfield. Wheelspin was under the viaduct at the time. This was yonks ago.

Proper bike co then. Did my work experience there 🙂

zap, respect is due.

Lookinng PRO AS,for the era.

Would hate to see some of the shit I was racing in, back in that era.

there was one or two up at Haldon today in the full lycra , honestly didn’t know people still wore Lycra for mtbing.

They do, they’re all circumcised….