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Hmmm, I wear lycra, usually under baggies on my MTB or if I'm likely to be spending lots of time in a pub or something.
The main reason I ditch the baggies on the MTB is when the weather's too rubbish and the baggies just get heavy and start falling down/catching on the saddle and stuff. I really don't understand what the OP is getting at when he asks how lycra copes with mud/wet.
Then again I am part roadie I guess.
i wear baggies on xc bike so as not to upset folk at the sight of my knob bulge, and to give me an ipod pcket.
anyoneelse have serious issues with saggy wet short/saddle interface?
soon as it starts raining my shorts start getting snag tastic! ****ing dangerous!
Yep, crotch snag is the biggest issue with baggies. I don't know if he can be held directly responsible but I seem to remember shorts crotches being significantly higher before this man came along...
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I wear lycra bib shorts as they're comfy...sometimes I wear shorts over the top. On the road bike lycra is great in the wet
White lycra is all wrong however.....
white lycra is wrong. as is yellow worn out lycra, and pink lycra.
any of these in the wet are exponentially worse.
lycra shorts should always be black, and a i salute teams with non colour-matched kit that let their lads have black shorts!!!
Sometimes I wear lycra over baggies.
what is really wrong is team issue/replica lycra on fat middle aged people, your not benefiting from the aerodynamics......
replica kit is odd in general.
why would i want to ride in sky kit? i don't get it.
especially at that price!!!
Lycra on the road bike, and as extra layers in the winter on the MTB.
Baggies (but not too baggy) on the mtb for abrasion resistance when the inevitable fall happens, and for putting things in pockets.
Jeans for commuting, with a trouser clip round my ankle. Unless I'm on the belt-drive bike when there's no risk of an oil-stain.
I wear what I find comfortable for the situation and don't give a flying fig what anyone else thinks.