Have you ever lurked in a road bike forum? I have. Mostly nasty vile liberals with a few conservatives. Most conservatives end up being banned. They claim that the tight spandex makes them go faster because of less drag. I don’t care about going fast. I don’t wear loose baggy pants because they can get tangled in the spokes and other places. In summer I do wear close fitting Capri’s for safety. In winter I wear rubberized cycling pants with ankle cuff’s for the same reason.
I occasionally visit the local bike shop. The owners are conservatives. One day I was there when half a dozen of the spandex wearing soy boys came in. The owner almost choked trying not to laugh at the look on my face. My impression of them is that they are all gay guys advertising to each other and my thoughts obviously showed on my face. LOL
It disturbs me that people lump all cyclists into the liberal gay sorts because we are not. We think they are as nuts as any conservative would. I don’t let their hateful comments stop me from enjoying my favorite healthy sport. Their problem, not mine.
I never got the spandex go-fast thing. 99.9% of riding is training, not competition. Football players run with parachutes to train. Bikers should wear bulky clothes, they wouldn’t have to ride as far and for as long, clearing the bike paths for others.
I ride a mountain bike on gravel, in jeans. On old logging roads with no traffic except the occasional, moose, elk, deer or bear.
You’re a girl......when you said Capris.......I thought a man in Capris.....odd....I thought you a man for most of the thread
I live a few miles from spandex bike people epicenter for Tennessee
The Trace near Nashville to around the Columbia to Centerville Hwy...Hwy 50 I think
On weekends many bicyclists and the Trace rangers on weekends I think give them right of way over cars
And they take it ....I don’t want to kill anybody even liberals so I watch for them
Having been a motorcyclists in my youth I instinctively look for motorcycles but you can still miss one
The broad brush is illogical. Interesting, your comment on soy boy bikers. For the Left, everything (including biking) is political.