Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Spandex as the Fixed Gear Fashion Antichrist

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I ride with bike shorts on my road bike but I can't bring myself to ride my fixed gear with tights.

Is spandex the "oh-no-you-didn't" fashion no-no for fixed gear poseurs? Discuss.

mmmmm....

junk....

I'll ride in spandex from time-to-time. It generally involves pants/cut-offs over cycling shorts and a jersey.

whats a fixed gear poseur
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First of all, it is lycra.... but whatever...

Secondly, there is good reason most bibs are in black. Without even considering the sharing your wares perspective, light colors easily are discolored in the ass region from all the road grime that gets ground in from sitting on the saddle.

My question to you--- do you like riding 80 miles on your fixed gear wearing jeans? Your ass must look like a pizza. How well does your cotton wick your sweat away? Like your padded cut-off Dickies on your rock-hard Brooks? Just asking.... Just saying lycra has its place.

But that place is not walking around the grocery store or hanging out at the coffee shop.

I ride in it if I'm going out for a longer ride or a ride that is just a ride and not a ride with an end destination that would make it unfit to be in spandex.

I ride lycra when my rides are over 40 miles on the fixed gear. Any longer and I don't care what I look like. But there's just something goofy about wearing bike shorts (tights) with a fixed gear.

For shorter rides, I wear regular shorts over the lycra.

this thread is secretly about how mass culture induces conformity

If I'm just fscking around doing "stupid fixie tricks", I just wear regular shorts. If I'm going on a longer ride, I wear mountain-bike shorts... because... I dunno. There is something odd feeling -- for me -- about wearing my bibs on my fixie.

I guess it kinda feels like wearing a full pro football getup to a game of touch or flag football with the guys at the park.

*shrug*

But I do see the wicking value in specific riding clothes, thus the MTB shorts and a loose-fitting jersey.

this thread is secretly about how mass culture induces conformity

OH MAN...BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I ride my fixed gear with an XXL slipknot shirt and big ass JNCOs that double as sails for when I get stranded out at sea.

eeeww....

junk....

this thread is secretly about how mass culture induces conformity

Call me assimilated and vain.

*friend as he walks past at work* "wow that second guy is small"


3/4 pants and (if its over 40km) bike shorts under wickaway 3/4 shorts... i just cant bring my self to go all out with the spandex/lycra

swrve knickers. good compromise. great material, keeps you cool, stays tight so you don't get balloon pants but no chamois pad.

i've got two pairs, scholler dynamic for hot days, cotton for not so hot days. i'd like to get a pair of wools for the winter as well as some lycra for rides where i don't want to look too good. :D

my lycra brings all the boys to the yard

But that place is not walking around the grocery store or hanging out at the coffee shop.

I absolutely hate wearing street clothes any time I'm riding my bike and the temp is over about 20C/70F. Now that I live in a city where it's always hot in the summer, even just running to the store and stuff the outer layer of my poor Flite is wearing off from sweating like a pig in cotton shorts or pants; when I have to go more than a couple miles round trip to run an errand, I'll probably start throwing on shorts. I already throw on a jersey anytime I'll have a bag on my back.

When I had a commute, I went for rides or trained after work, and usually got groceries on the way home. After a couple of stops in at the grocery store in bike shorts and a road jersey, the default awkwardness wears off and you just don't care, especially if you're bonking. If they're just a titch on the small side though, well, that's a little embarrassing.

And I like wearing tights when it's cool out; in the winter the only reason I wore pants or shorts over them was because it was too cold for the old junk on a 25 or 30 minute commute.

Hanging out at the coffee shop, well, maybe not.

Those youngsters in jeans and work pants on their bikes, I just don't get it.

i just got back from a 60 miler in 85 F Heat. you bet your ***** i was fully kitted up with lycra + jersey.
and i did it fixed.

I hillclimb a lot and prefer to do it in my lycra, because anything with an inelastic waistband starts to make my gut cramp up when Im really going for it. The crew I am riding with more these days are all semi serious roadies so there's no feeling out of place. I can see where it might feel funny if none of your friends were doing it but that goes for most get-ups.

f*ckkkkkkkk that. if i'm going to be on my bike - fixed or not - anywhere - city or suburbs - for any extended period of time, i'm wearing something comfortable....like full spandex! same goes for alleycat races. if i were a messenger i'd be delivering packages in full spandex as well since 8 hours on a bike in jeans and a t-shirt isn't that comfortable.

but, when you wear lycra, do you have a large red circle around your junk, pointing it out to the world, like these lovely polska men?...


couldn't they have put some writing over that.. it would make it so much better/funnier, hehe

I think the guy in the red helmet is flicking me off

yeah I was just about to say he is the best of the bunch..

take it to the road forum gawkers

give me cuffed Levi's or give me hipster death

I've wondered whether most guys push their junk up or down when in lycra. Guess I know the answer.

up is away from the saddle

It's still a bike, no matter how much bull**** is associated with it. When you get on the bike, you wear clothes that are comfortable on the bike. NOT wearing your shorts because it's a fixie fashion faux pas is way worse than not wearing them because you're afraid of looking like a poseur.

has anyone mentioned that lycra hate has nothing to do with fixed gear bikes and everything to do with the losers you hang out with
?

As I understand proper technique with lycra is to not wear undies. Is the technique the same with jerseys, to not wear an undershirt (guy) or bra (gal)?

step 1: buy/take/receev girlpants
step 2: roll up/cut off
step 3: ??????
step 4: PROFIT!

All you miss is padding and tiny seams.

So it's technically irrelevant because I was on my road bike at the time, but this morning I was out for a ~35 mile ride in roadie gear, and I stopped to look at my rear tire on a little residential street and I totally noticed a 60-65 year old woman looking at my penis. Wicked uncomfortable.

So it's technically irrelevant because I was on my road bike at the time, but this morning I was out for a ~35 mile ride in roadie gear, and I stopped to look at my rear tire on a little residential street and I totally noticed a 60-65 year old woman looking at my penis. Wicked uncomfortable.

a similar thing happened to me.. i was riding my road bike, and an older lady in a cadillac coupe thing gave a little honk, drove by, i looked over and she was giving a nod of approval. it was kinda weird, but funny.

but i mean, i have been told i have a nice ass... oh well.

you people wear clothes when you cycle? :eek:

Makes me think of one of thesehttp://www.transportcafe.co.uk/europa_truck_stop_2007/clocks.jpg

It depends. Do I need pockets at my destination?

take it to the road forum gawkers


The pic of the red lycra has been banned in the Roadie forum.


The rule is: cycling shorts should be dark, preferably black.

Instead of shorts, wear bibs. Once you go bibs, you won't go back.

It depends. Do I need pockets at my destination?


All the pockets you'd ever need are on the back of your jersey.

denim lycra AND gears will save us.

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I have been waiting for a while for Primal Gear or some other novelty-wear maker to come up with a whole line of fakenger/bikepunk trompe l'euil spandex: shorts with fake patches, "frayed" "cuffs" and "mini u-lock" tucked into the "back pocket"; jerseys that look like a thrift store Judas Priest shirt with the sleeves cut off and mock grease stains and "holes".

As I understand proper technique with lycra is to not wear undies. Is the technique the same with jerseys, to not wear an undershirt (guy) or bra (gal)?

yes.

The only time I'm not visually wearing lycra is in the winter. I can stand the look of bike shorts, but not the winter tights. I will not wear them.. ever. I wear my lycra shorts under nylon pants that aren't too baggy so they don't flap in the wind and make me lose 2 mph. I've also worn jeans over lycra. This was for commuting to work, which is 15 miles. Farther than that, I might have to make other considerations.

denim lycra AND gears will save us.
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I swear to god, if some weird Fourth Reich ever comes out of hiding from their secret Antarctic bases in an attempt to take over the world, YOU will be the hero that saves us all.

^.Anyone notice the bike's top tube. For what reason does the top tube need a protective sheeth? Must be the tool belt. Looks like someone needs a bike fitting.

i like looking at that area

Makes me think of one of thesehttp://www.transportcafe.co.uk/europa_truck_stop_2007/clocks.jpg

Well Played

one of the few times that top tube protection seems appropriate

i wear lycra when i don't have an end-destination and just want to ride for an hour or two or three. i don't know why riding a fixed bike means no lycra to some people; gears or not i soak cotton t-shirts and jeans in no time at all. it's not like lycra means you have to ride around in a t-mobile kit or anything, i just buy all-black stuff and call it a day.

i wear lycra when i don't have an end-destination and just want to ride for an hour or two or three. i don't know why riding a fixed bike means no lycra to some people; gears or not i soak cotton t-shirts and jeans in no time at all. it's not like lycra means you have to ride around in a t-mobile kit or anything, i just buy all-black stuff and call it a day.

we don't appreciate reasonable responses 'round these parts. please pick one end of the extreme and stick to it. thanks

one of the few times that top tube protection seems appropriate

why. think it needs protection from scratches or what. the dude's expression. Sort of looks like he does not want to go to work. probably only bologna sandwiches.

why. think it needs protection from scratches or what. the dude's expression. Sort of looks like he does not want to go to work. probably only bologna sandwiches.

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