So today i rode in humvees, 661 rajis, giro hex, and mtb shoes. Is there anything to wear on a road bike that isn't lycra and make me look like a tit?
Slim fitting baggy shorts?
Sounds like you looked like a **** today 🙂
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!
Pink baggies with a fluoro top 😉
guess who i look like if i wear lycra???
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I've been thinking of trying these for a "less-extreme-lycra" look.
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cool,hmmmm......a la Birthday suite?
A club, couldn't chase you down!!
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 .
well made bibs in black, if you have the legs for it
Baggies are shit when it gets wet though. Mind you, I guess most folk off here never ride in the rain.
they were only youngsters
bizarre Q, having never been on the ghey bike in the wet, how slippy are road tyres?
youngsters racing-ralph, you said, man talked to you.FFS get your story right 😀 And by the way wear what you want
Wear what you want. Why bother posting on a web site about it.
to see if there were better shorts that aren't super baggy to wear thats why
aP - MemberWear what you want. Why bother posting on a web site about it.
why bother posting that shite reply?
the club run could have been an 80-100 miler so maybe a hollow 'victory'
a victory non the less as i was on the home stretch also
Wet roads aren't slippy on the rad bike.
Buy assos and do it properly otherwise think about your homework which you've still got left to do.
racing_ralph - Memberto see if there were better shorts that aren't super baggy to wear thats why
Methinks you're just gonn have to find a decent shop and try on a few styles. Either that or look at [url= http://www.rapha.cc/fixed-shorts-1/ ]Rapha[/url]
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.
no
Cos in reality you'd get your arse kicked, right 😉
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.
Bike a Yellow steel Kona.
Warra twonk!
lol
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.
i did a mountain bike race on saturday like this:
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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...
racing_ralph - you're on a roll tonight intcha? 🙂
Who is that ghey boy wearing lycra???
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Whats the problem, just wear lyrca.
i have stick legs, a fat bell, and a pigeon chest
a bit like sfb but with a paunch
So you wore MTB stuff and thought you looked like a twonk. You won't wear lycra because you'll look like a twonk.
Spot a pattern?
no i said what i wore and then asked for slim fitting shorts that weren't lycra.
rapha touring shorts
Is there anything to wear on a road bike that isn't lycra and make me look like a ****?
I don't think the problem is limited to road bikes.
Up the Wolves!
If it helps I ran 20 oil in my forks instead of 15, didn't seem to matter
RR - do you think that what other people think you look like is more important than function?
of course
Kool! 😉
I think people who don't wear full lycra on a road bike have body image issues
i would not wear full lycra in my own house when alone......
and i am not body concious
why not ton?
i sweat more in lycra than i do in baggy attire, which makes me more uncomfortable when riding.
i do not race, so do not need the aero benefits of lycra.
I think people who don't wear full lycra on a road bike have body image issues
Agreed.
