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One thing I've really noticed since starting to ride on the roads is the snobbery - maybe it's the MTBers that I usually hang out with are particularly casual, but up until I got a road bike, all I knew of riding was 'wear whatever, ride whatever, have fun'. Then I got a road bike, and suddenly I'm aware of the supposed crime of wearing baggies on a road bike (I understand why people where lycra, I do sometimes, but so what if people want to wear baggies, I do that too), the heinousness of discs, the ultimate offence of having a peak on your helmet, etc etc.
Has anyone ever actually been told any of this in real life?
Or did you just stumble across the Velominati site and think it was serious?
It's about as valid as people saying brown shoes should never be worn, or pretending that they'd never have dared worn a white tie dress shirt to drink blue WKD's and vomit all over their ex at their black tie student ball.
What I don't understand is, why 90% of clubs literally pick the sh*ttest design possible, to use for their kit?
The same reason most small businesses have crap design too, I would imagine - no money to pay a professional, and anyway anyone can design a logo, right? How hard can it be?
Now, I love this forum and its inhabitants, but there really are a lot of social rejects on here.
I've just had to Google velominati. **** me! It's like satire, but without the humour
My reference points are from comments made by actual real people.
Including the one where someone from a pack of what I think were club riders going the other way yelled 'take the peak off fella' at me.
And the guy at work who have me a lecture about how dangerous discs where when I revealed I'd just bought a disc bike in preference to a higher spec rim braked on. It's all a bit puzzling tbh.
Or did you just stumble across the Velominati site and think it was serious?
Look, I *know* it's not serious, but I'll still tut if I see a bike upside down on the side of the road... 😉
Look, I *know* it's not serious, but I'll still tut if I see a bike upside down on the side of the road
I must have stopped reading by that bit. What's the matter with that one?
Is it time for this pic again?
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I must have stopped reading by that bit. What's the matter with that one?
Scratches the brake levers.
TBH it's all good advice, it's the unwritten rules about how to make your bike/kit look 'right' written down.
You wouldn't call an architect elitist for designing a house around magic ratio numbers, it's just the way things look right. In the same way it takes a bit of thought to coordinate the colour of bar tape, rims, frames etc without it looking horrible.
Meh.
I bought a cheap, knock off version of the Direct-Energie team kit purely because it matches my bike. Same with my Mavic 'summer' helmet.
My saddlebag has 2xtubes,repair kit,multi-tool,CO2 charger,chain tool,tyre levers & split link.
Because my rides vary between 25 mile evening runs & 100+mile all day rides I prefer to have all the kit I need permanently on the bike. It's just easier that way & it doesn't get left behind.
If any über-cool road warrior wants to sneer they can.
is that man hiding an ostrich egg or something under his Torm cap?
sorry- I meant casquette
That's not a Torm cap, it's a Red Dots cap. (And the chap wearing it "is" Red Dots.)
Woods? Daft outfit? Even the OAB household is at it...
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is that man hiding an ostrich egg or something under his Torm cap?
sorry- I meant casquette
its all about the ‘luft’
Is it time for this pic again?
How about this one?
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Luft on his casquette?
Best. Euphemism. Ever.
https://www.thelocal.no/20150701/norway-police-pic-sends-temperatures-soaring
This is how I look in road gear. Honestly
The same reason most small businesses have crap design too
I would also suggest, a bit like football kit, much of the 'fashion' of cycle kit for clubs (both in graphic design and materials/features) is about a historic sense of 'fashion' too. Fitting in with your mates, innit?
I have a heavy, comfy but functional road bike. On Sunday it will be propped up outside various cafes while I go inside wearing kit declaring "Fat Lad at the Back" in 10 places.
I do look like I'm sponsored by them though. 😆
If I were to write down the unwritten rules of road couture for you all then they wouldn't be unwritten.
So just feel sure that you're doing it wrong [i]and[/i] I am looking down on you.
Always amuses me this type of thread. Why would I expect somebody that looks like a sack of shit tied up with string off a bike to look any better on it? Some people don't care about their appearance and that's their prerogative. They're wrong, but it's still their prerogative!
The same reason most small businesses have crap design too, I would imagine - no money to pay a professional, and anyway anyone can design a logo, right? How hard can it be?
Yes, some are awful, but some clubs are also very old (ours is pushing 100 years) and the kit designs are modern evolution of designs with a lot of heritage. For some clubs, this means a great deal and the members enjoy wearing them, especially the junior members who wear them with a great deal of pride.
If any über-cool road warrior wants to sneer they can.
It's interesting that most of the sneering on here seems to be coming from the other side...
As I mentioned in about the third of fourth comment, I simply can't understand why anyone should give a monkey's toss what anyone else wears on a bike, whatever their discipline. It's their choice and, frankly, nothing to do with anyone else.
(The only time I get vexed is when people are riding unlit bikes in dark clothing at night, doing their very best to make themselves completely invisible to other road users. That does wind me up a little.)
Alternatively, maybe 'Giant' the person in question was doing it for some sort of reason.
Endura were kind enough to give my NC500 charity group a good deal on kit, so when we do a group event i make a point of dressing to make myself a rolling Endura advert. Kinda seems fair in my view of things.
Including the one where someone from a pack of what I think were club riders going the other way yelled 'take the peak off fella' at me.
He's not wrong though, so I'd take that as handy advice 🙂
I stubbornly refused to take my peak off when I started road riding ("Pah, what do they know?!") and quickly realised that I couldn't see where I was going. I sheepishly pulled out the spare helmet and consigned its peak to history...
You should see the looks of bemusement / disgust I get from 'proper' mountain bikers when they see me ride past on my MTB wearing lycra shorts and jersey, just as I've been wearing since the 90's!
Some people don't care about their appearance and that's their prerogative. They're wrong, but it's still their prerogative!
So true, hence my comment. I'm not a roadie but a lot of people on here really don't mind looking a state. Fair play to you.
[quote=Ladders ]You should see the looks of bemusement / disgust I get from 'proper' mountain bikers when they see me ride past on my MTB wearing lycra shorts and jersey, just as I've been wearing since the 90's!
is that because its worn a bit thin in places...
Just want to add to this thread, you're all cock ends, unless you dress in exactly the same way I do in all circumstances.
And you're cock ends for judging me when I dress differently.
And if you can't tell that the velominati (and ribbing from roadies - or for that matter from MTBers when in full lycra) is meant to be a bit tongue in cheek, well...
We are all fully grown adults playing about on bikes, what we wear is the absolute last thing that makes us look stupid.
Personally I think your'e better off in some brightly coloured 'sponsor' kit than the all black outfits I see pillocks riding round in these days in some sort of ninja deathwish. Yes you rapha man. Honestly are you asking to get mowed down?
Too cool for their own survival some folk