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Article probably meant to be tongue in cheek but just comes across as judgemental. Thanks Chris Hoy.
It is about not wearing lycra if you are fat. And before anyone gets smug, you are almost certainly fat as it means having more than 5% body fat and/or being over 8st.
Some folk on the BBC say Get Lost to that.
you are almost certainly fat as it means having more than 5% body fat and/or being over 8st.
Eh?
Where do you get that from?
Chris Hoy said his comments were intended to be humourous... I've heard that elsewhere... I thought it was a bit rich coming from him, too, as he's a big powerful bloke (or at least he was as a cyclist) - not some skinny Chris Froome type at all.
Eh?
Where do you get that from?
From the article.
He apologised later.
Never mind. It will be used as another stick to beat cyclists with regardless.
Sports gear being aesthetically pleasing is more by accident than design. The function takes precedence, and tradition has a lot to say on the matter too. (Have you ever seen a wrestler in a singlet?) But most outsiders look on with some degree of bemusement. I think if any sports cyclist can't get past that then were they ever really enjoying the cycling at all?
"makes most cyclists look as ridiculous as an overweight football fan wearing the shirt of his favourite club for a pub five-a-side game"
It's a fair point to be honest.
Most cyclists are not going fast enough nor far enough to justify wearing lycra performance gear. Naturally, for commuters there may be issues of comfort, especially round the saddle area.
Personally I don't see the benefit of lycra-ing up unless cycling further than 40 miles, but y'know freedom of choice and all that...
I normally wear shorts & t-shirt, but if it is raining then I wear lycra to commute because it dries extremely quickly and is guaranteed to be dry by the time I have to cycle home. We don't have fancy drying rooms - or even lockers to store gear- so my bibshorts dangle next to the coats in protest.
@crowriver I disagree. If it is hot or if I have overdressed (very common) I can be sweatier than I'd like to be by the time I've got from the railway station to the office, and I'm female so sweat less. A couple of colleagues who do the same thing prefer to change when they get to the office - and it really isn't a long ride. If you are a male who "runs hot" then it can't be very nice to sit in a sweaty shirt. Especially as we have a society where being even the tiniest bit smelly is frowned upon.
Yes, of course we don't want to send the signal that you HAVE to wear all sorts of fancy kit to ride a bike. But if you feel more comfortable in good, sweat-absorbing kit, wear it. And just because one person thinks 40 miles isn't very far, that doesn't mean that it isn't a major undertaking for other people. I don't diss the people who take 40 minutes to do a 5 km Parkrun, or suggest that all they need is a pair of comfortable shoes, even though I can run it, do my warm down, and be on my way home before the last runners have finished.
And just because one person thinks 40 miles isn't very far, that doesn't mean that it isn't a major undertaking for other people. I don't diss the people who take 40 minutes to do a 5 km Parkrun, or suggest that all they need is a pair of comfortable shoes, even though I can run it, do my warm down, and be on my way home before the last runners have finished.
I think this is really my issue here. I just don't find it cool that a superfit athlete is being sneery towards those who aren't superfit. Okay he has apologised but well, whatever. Still leaves a bit of an unpleasant aftertaste.
He also recommends clipless shoes. But not lovely comfy, quick drying Lycra? Odd.
I wear loose comfy clothes commuting with bibshorts underneath, ready to pounce the second someone suggests I'm not fast.
I leap into the nearest phone box and strip down to my terrifying skintight lycra exoskeleton then snapping a pair of TT bars onto the front of my bike I charge down EVERY shared use path I can with neither a bell nor whistle to announce my stealthy approach.
The air silent as it whips around my sleek form, I soon reach supersonic speeds. As I continue to pump the fleshy protuberances stabbing like pneumatic sausages out the bottom of my TIGHT lycra shorts I approach the speed of light, achieving red shift.
All of us know that RED IS FASTER and I move through not just space, but time. Never to be seen again in this petty, poluted world. 67 million years ago I stop, lightly panting but blissfully cool as I am wearing lycra. I am eaten by a confused T-rex.
@ARobComp wins CCE this week...
@ARobComp wins CCE this week...
+1
At least we now know what killed the dinosaurs! :-)
Wow - there's nothing left to say
BTW is there a Strava segment for that?
Unfortunately, I can sweat buckets whilst sitting perfectly still in a cold room.
When I started cycling, I didn't wear lycra or cycling-specific clothing and I suffered. The sweat-sodden clothing chafed & took a lot of my skin off, and was almost enough to make me write off the bike as a stupid idea.
I can't ride comfortably without wearing specific clothing (heck, I no longer wear cotton t-shirts at all in everyday life as looking like a sweat-patched extra in It Ain't Half Hot Mum after doing nothing more energetic than sitting still is mortifying).
So apologies if my slightly-overweight body in lycra offends anyone - I'm wearing it for my own wellbeing & comfort when riding.
Well I suppose it is okay so long as you wear a paper bag over your head just in case you don't look like Johnny Depp.
Isn't lycra made from dinosaurs? ARobComp could be wearing ARobComp.
My head is now spinning faster than Chris Hoy's legs at the end of a keirin race.
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