Asking after seeing a couple of roadies earlier that looked like they were getting back to nature in a big way.
Apart from being a bit over exposed, it must be bloody cold! Lol
Yep. It absolutely is. You should go out and buy loads of it now and wear it with pride, in public, at all times.
Ta, off to eBay now to binge buy!
OMG, there's nothing more vile than old roadies that refuse to buy new shorts until they actually have holes in. 🤮 I've had words with a couple of my club mates about it in the past.
WTF? Throw away perfectly good shorts to avoid upsetting some prude?
No way!
APF
They weren't Colombian lady pros by any chance ?
It’s probably Chinese made replica gear, it looks and feels perfectly good-until you adopt the cycling position and the Lycra shorts stretch-they go decidedly see-through then-apparently!
OMG, there’s nothing more vile than old roadies that refuse to buy new shorts until they actually have holes in. 🤮 I’ve had words with a couple of my club mates about it in the past.
Not just roadies. I still wear the shorts that I bought at the 1989 Malverns Classic. More holes than Lycra now. Admittedly, they're only ever used as under shorts underneath my baggies now.
JP
I used to cycle in a gang of lads that had one bloke regularly come along that would wear the most see through lycra bib shorts ever. Poor lad had to be told. Crazy thing is, he had about 10 £4k bikes and was loaded. Probably why he had so much money I guess haha.
Ash.
Another good excuse to post this lovely kit photo!
No, it's a thong.
My favourite bibs regularly get me told off by the girlfriend, apparently they don’t leave much to the imagination. I’ve stopped wearing them on club rides, but otherwise I just crack on... no pun intended!
I think it's some of the Castelli shorts that seem to have a red backing layer which at first glance can make it appear as if your seeing through it.
Just. Not. White. Please.
I once followed a large German up the climb from Pollensa to Lluc whose huge buttocks wobbled about in similar see through shorts. I just didn’t quite have the energy to get past him and in the end had to drop back and climb even slower to preserve my vision
Many years ago, a bunch of us were on the mountain bikes climbing Silver Glen towards Ben Cleuch in the Ochil Hills. It was the first really warm day of late spring and I was near the back of the group, really struggling in the heat. I'm a rather...chunky lad, so always wear baggies over my lycra shorts, but this day the heat was getting to me so bad that I stopped, whipped my baggies off and stuffed them in my bag. The relief, oh....the blessed cool relief of cycling along in those lycra shorts.
That is until about 5 minutes later as one of the other guys caught up with me and let out a strangled cry of horror. Poor Canadian Scott (for it was he), had looked up to see that unbeknown to me, my lycra shorts had split down the back from the waistband to the pad, thus revealing my sweaty, hairy, wobbly arse cheeks to the cool refreshing air.
He made me put my baggies back on, the git
At a Midweek Madness race last year I took a spill and the brake lever caught on my bibshorts, tearing a hole down my inner thigh.
I still had a lap and a half and was in a good position, so I had to keep pulling the flapping lycra back across to save the spectators a prime view of my meat and two veg.
Didn't get overtaken but failed to reel in the guy in front, unsurprisingly.
Funnily enough i never understood what everyone was on about when they mentioned see through lycra, had been lucky enough never to have spotted it.
That was until a few weeks ago riding with FIL's road club. Chap i was riding behind had some pretty old kit and yep, it was like a window into his sole, i could see every hair in his crack.
I think i was happier not knowing, it can't be unseen.
it was like a window into his sole
His R sole?
It's definitely a first world problem.
But I'd agree it's not really the season for it.
I've retired my shorts that have developed a cock hole, but "marginally"* thinned but perfectly comfortable shorts going in the bin? Do you think I'm made of money/hate the planet/get sponsored by bibshort manufacturers or something?
*GF says she can see my actual cock, I dispute this. Besides, when riding, that bit's fairly hidden.
**I would buy more shorts, but I need about 3 pairs to be able to have a clean pair available, so it adds up significantly when I replace them, even avoiding Assos etc.
*** I have looked in the mirror, and I do really disagree with the GF's assessment.