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Clothing - 'normal' v 'special'

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  1. Neil
    Member

    I now regularly use my commutes to get in a longer cycle and shower at work. Showering at work actually makes navigating the toddler chaos at the home end simpler :P I didn't use to shower at work and wore mtb baggies but have progressed over the years to almost invariably lycra-clad (albeit with legs so hairy it looks like I'm wearing a badly-knitted woolen baselayer).

    For general getting about, or work days where I need to visit another site and won't be able to change, I wear normal clothes and use the flat pedal hybrid.

    I like lycra, it's like I'm cycling naked with my junk cradled gently but firmly by a troop of angels.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  2. SRD
    Moderator

    David Millar taking on rapha and vulpine?

    http://www.bikeradar.com/road/gear/article/millar-castelli-show-cycling-some-sartorial-style-44950/

    Posted 8 years ago #

  3. amir
    Member

    I wear cycle specific clothing 99% of the time. But then I try to use the commute as training (useful counterpoint to a sedentary job). When I was a teenager, I cycled everywhere in jeans and shirt. But then I didn't have to cope with the oil-stains and I hadn't heard of cycle specific clothing anyway.

    If my standard commute was shorter and less hilly, I might well try "normal" clothing but I also might walk (better for health?) or cycle the long way.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  4. Neil
    Member

    Cycling in normal clothes and shoes on the hybrid with flat pedals is fine but it's not nearly as comfortable as "full lycra" and spd shoes. It's more than fine as a means to get about when it makes more sense for whatever reason, but I wouldn't choose to cycle like that for fun

    Posted 8 years ago #

  5. fimm
    Member

    I just (due to forgetting I had an appointment to have my eyes tested) had to ride my road bike (horizontal cross bar) while wearing a short (but fortunately tight but with the right level of elasticity) skirt. I did wuss out of trying to ride SPD-SL pedals in the little slip-on shoes I keep under the desk, and wore the proper shoes, taking the smart ones with me and changing into them when I arrived at my destination.

    Do any of the gentlemen on here like that David Millar stuff? It isn't to my taste but a) I'm not the target market and b) I believe men are actually allowed to have differing opinions on clothes too...

    Posted 8 years ago #

  6. stiltskin
    Member

    Do any of the gentlemen on here like that David Millar stuff?

    Without getting into all the Hi-Viz argument...Of all the colours I would choose to have cycling gear in, Mid/Dark grey is the worst. Talk about making yourself deliberately inconspicuous.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  7. paddyirish
    Member

    I wouldn't call myself a gentleman, but I won't be buying anything from the Millar range. Never mind that I am rather more "cuddly" than Millar (ribs last visible a long time ago), but more importantly, I had to stop reading this article before I got ill.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  8. gembo
    Member

    Millar stuff there looks good but presumably without realising how much it taps into facist design. Vulpine a lot cheaper than Rapha and quite willing to engage in banter around their refer a friend stuff etc.

    David himself has kept very skinny and also used a fair bit of gel on his hair.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  9. MediumDave
    Member

    The Millar jersey looks rather like it came from the wardrobe of Dr Evil.

    Posted 8 years ago #

  10. Stickman
    Member

    The striped one looks like something from Flash Gordon. And gembo is right about the whiff of fascism about it as well.

    Posted 8 years ago #

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