[Closed] Are birkenstock sandals...

Quite possibly - however you don't look good in it. No one does. You look like a plonker in lycra. You just do. We all do apart from the athletic young ladies and a few of the best looking YOUNG men

OK point taken, I shall ride with my trackie bottoms tucked into my hiking shoes then, I'm sure I've seen a picture of someone riding a tandem dressed like that.

PP,
'IMO the Government should introduce a 'Sandal License' and police it harshly!'

To stop people wearing them with shorts and socks pulled up to their knees ??

Kingtut - I am completely aware of what I look like - but sometimes I just don't care. I ain't deluded.

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OK from the global epicentre of urban hipster douchebaggery that is Shoreditch.....

This is what I'm poncing around in this summer.

I dont have a pair of ice-lolly shorts but I wish I did.

Fashion Advice from TJ, Hahahahahahahaha!!!!

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Kingtut - I am completely aware of what I look like - but sometimes I just don't care. I ain't deluded.

Yet you care so much about how other people look.

Christ on a bendybus. There are some delusional people on here.

Blokes over the age of 30 wearing lycra are an offense against decency and taste. Its a problem that needs addressing, so that those of us with a glimmer of self-awareness don't have to be lumped (appropriate word) in with these aesthetic abominations as 'cyclists'

Basically, when seen in public the aging lycra-bandit should be immediately arrested and taken for communist style re-education programme.

This 'counseling' should take the form of being forced to look in a full length at the lycra-clad horror, while a coterie of really bitchy gay blokes point at you, and whisper behind their hands at each other

Then repeatedly slapped around the face with a wet fish, whilst being told very loudly the awful (but obvious to everyone else) truth.

"OI!!! WTF DO YOU THINK YOU LOOK LIKE?!! YOU DELUSIONAL HALF-WIT. WHAT DO YOU SEE IN THAT MIRROR?! A FINELY HONED ATHLETE?!! GET A *ING GRIP!! YOU LOOK LIKE AN EXPLOSION IN A *ING SAUSAGE FACTORY. YOU KNOW WHN YOU SEE A FAT BIRD IN LEGGINGS?! EH? AND YOUR STOMACH CHURNS? EH? THAT'S *ING YOU, THAT IS. NOW PUT SOME *ING CLOTHES ON, YOU GIMP!!!

should do the trick 😀

LOL@ Binners

what if you're 10kg lighter at 40 than you were at 30, and unapproachably handsome?

what if you're 10kg lighter at 40 than you were at 30, and unapproachably handsome?

That's me that is 😉

....but not Binners I shouldnt think.....

Blokes over the age of 30 wearing lycra are an offense against decency and taste. Its a problem that needs addressing, so that those of us with a glimmer of self-awareness don't have to be lumped (appropriate word) in with these aesthetic abominations as 'cyclists'

Some of us still have a BMI that is lower than our age and are in possesion off only one belly

This isn't anything at all to do with BMI, you fool! Its about simple dignity, or the lack of.

If this has to be explained, then there's really no hope. Off to the re-education camp with him. Its for your own good. You'll thank me one day I promise you 😉

As if riding a road bike in baggies is any better?

This is quality btw - classic TJ arguing but funny 🙂

I'm confused binners, what goes best with lycra: birkenstocks or deck shoes?

deck shoes? birkenstocks? with lycra? How frightful. I was thinking more.....

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Its about simple dignity, or the lack of

erm... yeah. Pretty much summed it up really. When you're young and daft people will indulge your sillyness.

Whether people want to admit it or not, a man over 30 in lycra solicits only pity

OP your 40 NOT 55. 😆

What next?

Cowboy boots? 🙄

Stand back! Stand back! Jean Paul Gaultier's arrived

This forum is the absolute last place I would ever come for fashion advice.

OP - Reading the thread it reminded me of Amelie's Dad in the film Amelie

binners I am a fashion Tour De Force..

I'm off to the Marble tonight btw

I am cycling i want someting skin tight that does not flap in the wind. I am not trying to look cool if I was i would have a fixie and skinny jeans.
IMHO no one looks good in cycling gear though some folk look trully awful
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I struggle with long sentences

FWIW I have , and wear :-
Deck shoes - 15 years old and comfiest shoes I've got. They've been soaked in salt and fresh water, mud, neglected and [b]still[/b] refuse to look anything other than great IMO.
Sandals - cheap synthetic pair bought in Cyprus 14 years ago and have walked 100's miles, been swimming, rock scrambling etc. - also refuse to die
Flip-flops - 2 pairs, one cheap thick soled beauties bought by a French friend some years ago and are mega comfy even though the thong part has been repaired several times. The other pair, IXS Backcountry (fashionable !!?) bought from CRC last year and are too hard and not comfy at all.

TBH I don't know what's worse, people actually discussing this as if they really care, or me actually bothering to post as I couldn't give a monkeys chuff if others disapprove of my choice of footwear or the fact I am over 50 and still wear flip-flops, deck shoes, sandals, jeans and ...........wait for it.....[i][b]hoodies[/b][/i].

I should obviously be stabbed with something pointy and become my Grandad 8)

EDIT: I draw the line at lycra - but that is purely due to vanity and having bumps where there shouldn't really be any.

people actually discussing this as if they really care,

You do realise this is a joke thread don't you?

I once rode 100m's down the road in lycra from my house. I looked down, turned round and changed.

Never again. Its grim.

You do realise this is a joke thread don't you?

Coming from you, that's hilarious .... and there was me thinking it was deadly serious 😆 🙄