Posted on 06/22/2015 5:14:28 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Ditto.
Who knew they made those body Speedos in 4X size? Does it have a sewn in “Caution: Wide Load” emblem across the back?
My bike is my horse. I commute on it. Incidentally it gives me exercise. But mainly it keeps me out of my $50 per day commute in my V8 Tundra.
Hell knows no fury like a militant bicyclist who has to share a path with families with children.
I always thought it was an outlet for closet neoprene fetishists too cowardly to wear neoprene in public.
Here in soviet Red Hampshire, you can watch someone without a helmet on a motorcycle haul ass down our rural road at 60-70 mph, then watch a spandex-clad soyboy with a helmet on a bicycle drift by at 5-10 mph...go figure.
Speaking of the Red Mountain State; they used to have a ‘naked bike ride’ thru the capitol hamlet of Montpelier a few years back...that noise you hear from flapping in the wind isn’t the baseball cards clipped to your spokes...eeeew.
Rubber fetish?
Could be, but I figured it was about gays designing gay eye candy.
Anyone who wears spandex or Lycra is touched in the head.
Biking attire serves three purposes. First is comfort. When you ride between 50-100 miles, padded cycling shorts are a MUST!
Second is no flapping cloth to catch on chains, handle bars, seats or other protrusions.
Third is sweat absorption. VERY IMPORTANT!
After a spinal cord injury left me partially paralyzed, walking became a tedious chore as I was moving nearly half my body weight around as "dead" weight.
I tried bicycling for the first time in over 30 years on the Shark River Valley Everglades Bike Trail.
I was amazed at how wonderful it was to move without the burden of dead weight.
Attired in cargo shorts and boxer underwear, I made the 15 miles and was numb and raw in the nether regions.
The next morning, I informed my riding partner, an avid English bicyclist used to 50-100 miles rides, that I needed three things. First was Gold Bond Medicated Powder and second was a strong cup of coffee. Third was Motrin.
And in that order!
Now, some 5 years later, I have accumulated over 10,000 miles on my 4 bikes. AND, I have ridden exactly once on a public road for a total of about 6 miles. During those 5 years, nearly once a month, I have seen a newscast with a twisted bicycle, shoe, etc. where a cyclist has been hit by a car or truck.
Thank goodness there are numerous biking trails nearby with amazing scenery that spare me the necessity of riding on public roads.
I started a biking club at our church and our motto is: So let it be ridden. So let it be done.
That said, all those trails have numerous snob bikers, always males, who look upon themselves as superior to anyone without a high priced bike with full biking accoutrements zipping along at 20+ MPH. And they never acknowledge a greeting from us lesser bikers cruising along at 12-14 MPH.
However, I do tend to speed up when a comely thing acknowledges my greeting and passes me in her biking shorts. ;^P
Whenever I see a bicyclist of this size, I start humming the circus tune they always play when the trained bear comes out on a bicycle.
Several years ago,Houston’s lib Mayor had a stripe painted down the right side of certain streets and designated it as a “ bike lane”.
Two cyclist were hit and killed on our street the first week. That white stripe didn’t protect them much.
Agreed! For me, the least faggy thing I've found are mt. bike shorts, whether for mt. or road. You can also wear them as regular shorts by removing the padded undies.
I don't do "bike" days anymore for the same reason I don't ride the Harley in groups anymore. You just end up going slow, the other riders become arrogant a-holes when in a group, and you look like a pack of fags. The bigger the peloton, the more acute is the a-holery.
Third is sweat absorption. VERY IMPORTANT!
the new sweat wicking materials are a miracle, even on a humid day, but you better be minding your hydration.
That said, all those trails have numerous snob bikers, always males, who look upon themselves as superior to anyone without a high priced bike with full biking accoutrements zipping along at 20+ MPH. And they never acknowledge a greeting from us lesser bikers cruising along at 12-14 MPH.
Every sport has it's gear queers.
Yep! That’s it. Thank you.
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