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My duaghter has always laughed if I don't wear baggies over my lycra shorts. If kids laugh at you there's something inherently funny, imo.

She's older now so I just threaten to pick her up from school dressed like it and she goes all quiet.

She's older now so I just threaten to pick her up from school dressed like it and she goes all quiet.

Woke up this morning, daughter turned to me and said "Oh, daddy, go put a shirt on". She's 3.

Any bloke, other than a professional athlete, who thinks its acceptable to leave the house dressed only in lycra needs to take a long hard look at themselves. So we don't have to! Its clear that some cyclists are as deluded as a first round X factor contestant, as to how they actually look. In your mind - Brad. The reality - sex offender

Frankly, it should be an arrestable offense.

Just cycling gear is laughable.
I went to our new house on the way home from work the other day. I'm stood there in normal cycling clothes (baggies, SPD shoes that look relatively normal, baggyish lycra top, courier bag), and the plasterers just stared at my clothes when I was talking to them. Eventually one of them asked me if I was going straight to a race from the house.

edit: AND, I was leaving work the other day and the HR director walked out in front of me. Seeing someone behind her she looked round (she knows me really well) and just stared at my lycra-clad chest,. Never ever looked at my face.

Errm, I'm up here love.

It feels disgusting to be treated like a piece of meat.

Thinking about it I could do with a mirror to save me having to keep checking where they are. Some of them die without any notificiation although I can usually hear them going through the gears once their legs explode.

If you look back to check where they are the game is up and you can't maintain the pretence that you're not racing. There are other ways however. Using reflections in the windows of buildings is one, as is taking a quick peek when changing lanes under the guise of checking for traffic, or using shadows on the road. Or you can be completely blatant about it, ride alongside them for a bit (a cheery hello and/or wave is optional here), then sprint off when you've a clear road ahead 🙂

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Sometimes I do a wee burst of speed just before I pass so I can do it freewheeling

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You need a colourful drink with an umbrella in it to quaff as you waft past.

So im not allowed to wear my skinsuit in timetrials then ?

Are you a professional athlete? Are you taking part in an organised competitive event?

If so... just about permissable

riding to work? NO!!!! NO!!!!! NO!!!!!! [b]JUST NO!!!![/b]

Cycling gear being 'different' is all part of the identity... it's half the point

There were a couple of roadies bimbling along the A24 in Dorking the other day, one actually had a yellow jersey on. Fittingly however, he was in front.

What about this disgraceful bloke then?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/5007281/Cycling-hero-Bradley-Wiggins-bikes-ring-roads-of-Lancashire-while-team-mates-compete-in-Tour-de-France.html

riding to work? NO!!!! NO!!!!! NO!!!!!! JUST NO!!!!

Meh, I ride to work in lycra, in fact I ride just about everywhere in lycra. I did try baggies a few months ago, they were ridiculously annoying. Utterly pointless.

As observed, you look stupid anyway, you may as well wear the most functional stupid stuff.

I did wave at an mtber though. Actually, no, I gave him a nod as I was breathing through my ears at the time. Muppet probably didn't even notice.

I said hello to several people riding BSOs this morning, whilst riding a road bike in full lycra. Do I deserve an award?

Are you a professional athlete? Are you taking part in an organised competitive event?

If so... just about permissable

riding to work? NO!!!! NO!!!!! NO!!!!!! JUST NO!!!!

I ride to work in lycra, I ride 100 milers in lycra, I race in lycra.

It's comfortable, I couldn't give a toss that you don't like it.

lycra good. whingers bad.

This thread is all because a roadie once stepped in front of Binners at Greggs and bought the last sausage roll.
No other reason 🙂

Although,TBF there hasn't been a lycra V baggies thread for ages 😉

I wear my lycra over my baggies - it's what all the Dalstonista are doing.

As observed, you look stupid anyway, you may as well wear the most functional stupid stuff.

A good point, well put!

This thread is all because a roadie once stepped in front of Binners at Greggs and bought the last sausage roll.
No other reason

Curses! I didn't think there were witnesses to that!

I commute in lycra, particularly when it's this hot. When it's cooler I'll wear some close fitting waterproof shorts. I know I look ridiculous but I don't really care that much. It would be nice if the receptionists wouldn't laugh so much or so blatantly when I arrive at work though.

At half a mile from home (17.5 mile commute) the other evening I passed a guy on a Brompton in full lycra. I said hello as I passed, he said something back (which I assume was hello) and then accelerated and tried to sit on my wheel! I was slightly bemused and then sped up a bit but had some trouble dropping him!

In my defence his kit looked like it had seen better days so he must be a regular rider, and he was only about a mile from the train station.

Any Brompton riders on here don full lycra for a 1 mile ride from the station?

Brakes earlier

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[i]Thanks to kimbers for posting this last year[/i] 🙂

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I bet he rides alot faster away from Skem.

and you'd think he'd be a bit more covert these days. (maybe like riding a 5in full susser on big tyres into preston in a boiler suit)

Back to business:- i ride in lycra on the road bike and sometimes on the mountain bike and i look awesome - like michaelangelo's david but with kecks on. Everyone else looks a bell end.

eXCEPT THE BLOKE IN FASTHAGGIS' POST - THAT'S THE FUTURE, WE'LL ALL BE IN THAT, IT'S THE NEW 650B

not me, I wouldn't be seen dead in those glasses

Any bloke, other than a professional athlete, who thinks its acceptable to leave the house dressed only in lycra needs to take a long hard look at themselves.

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I wore lycra bib shorts and a dakine jersey on the commute today - don't know if you noticed, but it is chuffing hot outside at the moment so I didn't fancy my usual baggies over lycra option.

Likewise if it is peeing down with rain then lycra is a good option as the baggies get all wet and flappy.

I know it's not a flattering look. My 3 year old openly points and laughs at me.

But y'know.. [i]so what?[/i] The helmet, gloves and shoes aren't a great look either. Neither is being muddy, out of breath, wet or sweaty.

If you want to ride about in normal casual clothes, and only in good weather, at walking pace, then go buy some ironic glasses you don't need, put on your sister's jeans and get your fixie out. 😀

IME women laugh at men in lycra to hide their excitement. Men laugh at other men in lycra to hide their jealousy.

In neither case is it necessarily that you look 'so good' in your cycling gear (you may look podgy and awful like the rest of us), but that you have the confidence lacking in other men to go out in skin-tight clothing.

Maybe....

children point and laugh for the same reasons as I s**** at fat chavs in leggings stretched to translucency.

Any bloke, other than a professional athlete, who thinks its acceptable to leave the house dressed only in lycra needs to take a long hard look at themselves.

I like your thinking mickolas and shall point this out to the girls on reception on Monday when they're howling with laughter, again.

Moaning about blokes in Lycra says more about the gaybo doing the moaning...

Easy on the casual homophobia there Haze. 😕

Au contraire. I'd say that making defensive noises about men in lycra would suggest a state of denial about certain 'issues' there fella 😀

Easy on the casual homophobia there Haze.

Uh-Oh. I sense a derailment.

Anyway. Isn't Gaybo a fabulous martial art?

When did Jamie come back? G4S let you out then? 🙂

It seems like the combination of the weather and the crc sale has brought 'em all out in force. This mornings commute, which normally only sees the odd fellow cyclist, was instead a sea of badly fitting storm trooper fancy dress, and gleaming, never-seen-a mountain, overweight mid-life-crisis, full sussers.

I hope it stops equally as quickly as it started. There's nothing more unpleasant of a morning, than having to repeatedly overtake them as they wobble around carrying sufficient gear to survive a near apocolypse whilst cycling down the down the high st to the local woods. Bleeuuuurgh!

There is some consolation I suppose. Smiling and nodding enthusiastically at the ones heading the other way. To be studiously ignored with that fixed-straight-ahead, oh-so-serious, totally joyless "cant you see Iam serious" look on the faces. Like they're not extracting a single molicule of enjoyment out of the whole experience.

Please make it stop! The sooner golf is the new golf, the better IMHO

There you go..as if there arent enough groups for cyclists to fall out with we need to practice on ourselves.

For balance: I did a road ride at lunchtime , just an hour, some bloke overtook me on a hill (obviously) but I caught up when he was freewheeling down and we rode together for a mile to two chatting.

did you hold hands?

[i]did you hold hands? [/i]

no, just admired each others lycra.

who's was best?

[i]who's was best? [/i]

Mine.

But he had a better tan (although, to be fair Casper has a better tan than me).

Score draw?

As someone who who fits in neither camp, I'm gonna play devil's advocate here. Whilst out exploring on my bike I see plenty of out of shape dudes with ALL the gear, packing their precious MTB's away into a car. Why not bike out to the trails?

Seems to me road cycling is a much purer form of cycling. Straight out of the door and you're off. Needing a vehicle to carry your bike is a bit stoopid really.

For the record, I rock a clapped out frankenbike, primarily made from mate's hand-me-downs. But I ride it EVERYWHERE. I think you're all dicks. 😀

I await my ban.

I commute from Cheetham Hill to Gorton on my road bike but I don't wear lycra so it can't have been me you're on about. I have seen quite a few new decked out roadies lately though, some even have the cheek to overtake.

There's nothing more unpleasant of a morning, than being repeatedly overtaken by them, and to then be treated to a wobbly, middle-aged mans bottom in garish team kit lycra in front of you, arse in the air as he's on the drops. Bleeuuuurgh!

Commute daily in my team kit advertising the club, which cost more than the suit I wear when I get to work! Of course I can't comment on wobbly bits, as I'm more racing snake - does that pass muster? And of course sporting geometry means not quite so arse-in-the-air 😉

And yes there is some shocking riding out there. We have a beginners group to teach people to ride in a group, obey the highway code etc...

They'll all be gone as soon as it starts raining again, so don't worry.

You better keep out of London in august for when they have surrey 100 !

Binners, don't worry about your self-professed preoccupation with checking out male bottoms in lycra. Your negative reaction has nothing to do with your sexuality. It's simply that you have subconscious yearnings to be a roadie, and you are having difficulty rationalizing these feelings. You are checking out the bottoms, not because you want them, but because your inner roadie is checking out the form of the competitors. Embrace the lycra Binners - don't deny yourself 😉

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Downhills - like a particularly daft labrador that's just had a massive poo AND found a big stick

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AND Jamie's back! 😀 😀 😀 😀

So what exactly is wrong with cycling in lycra?

Properly fitting team or club kit looks quite smart on the bike. Ok it might be out of place whist strolling down the high street, but then so would wearing your speedos, or crickt whites.