BillyD

Wake up people, particularly my beloved comrades of the OCP persuasion.

I tried to sound the alarm last night with this thread, but apparently youze didn't quite get it.
https://bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=290060

We have an OCP crisis here regarding PI's 3D Microsensor shorts.
Performance asserts they are out of stock and that PI has discontinued this version of the short that we OCP'ers know and love . . .
the one with the distinctive, cool & classy white stitching.


Instead, Performance is stocking a "red" version of the 3D Microsensor, which has a dark red inner lining (big deal) and black stitching . . .
regular, run-of-the-mill, indistinctive black stitching, similar to this:


How the hell is any self-respecting poseur supposed to strut his stuff with indistinctive shorts like that???

It doesn't matter that they may be as comfortable as the old Microsensors. That's not important.
The looks is whats important. The white stitching is whats important. The OCP factor is whats important.

It's form over function, not vice versa . . . . HAS PEARL IZUMI LOST THEIR MINDS??

BILLYD IS VERY UPSET!!!

DrPete 

I guess in the grand scheme of things it's good that you're expending energy on this, because it means that you're likely running very, very low on any actual problems.

mrbubbles

you still wear shorts?

Patriot

Oh man, this is problematic.

Looks like they moved their logo to the opposite leg as well. Unless it's an inverted image (which I think it is).

Bad PI, BAD!!!

DScott

Do you ever actually, um, ride?

patentcad

Why aren't you wearing racing bibs? I don't get it.

Patriot

No, we just spend thousands of hard earned dollars we embezzled from Enron and Tyco to buy cool cycling gear, and then stand around the local 7-Eleven or Starbucks looking really cool. This helps us keep the young chickies looking at us aging Gen X'ers and young B-Boomers, thus maintaining our fragile narcissistic egos.

pcates

wow.....i'd hate to see how you handle a 'real' problem.......

Lithuania

just think maybe now you guys will be forced to buy nice bibs instead.

Patriot

Dude, like no way. What about the hassle when we get older and gotta go more often?

hmmm... I wonder how well bibs work with Depends?

DrPete 

PI doesn't exactly scream OCP to begin with. Pick up some Castelli YPro's if you want the white stitching.

Lithuania

+1

PI screams fred way more then ocp

BillyD

You take that back buddy!!

Lithuania

maybe i dont fully understand the term OCP

Patriot

What's wrong with PI.

I guess I should be tar and feathered, since I use the Performance Elite shorts, which I like better than almost any of the PI shorts that cost twice as much.

DrPete 

I can't claim to overrule the president, but Performance house brand clothing is about as OCP as helmet mirrors and knee-high socks.

Lithuania

i dont think there is anything wrong with PI or Performance stuff i just dont think they fit this OCP label as I understand it.

DrPete 

+1.

BillyD

Well put, Patriot. I was just about to lay into that guy with the fury of a thousand jungle beasts . . .
The nerve . . .

Maybe I will look into them.
Are they as comfy as the legendary PIs?
I can't spend all that time at the coffee shop in ill-fitting shorts.

Lithuania

OCP isnt about comfort

Patriot

I think most newer BF'ers here haven't been around as long to grasp what we really molded OCP into from its conception. It really has more to do with our love of cycling and the obsession we have with it and our gear, and not necessarily with how much money we spend on it.

That said, I am still gunning for an official 2004 USPS team kit off Ebay one of these days.

DrPete 

Try a pair of YPro's and you'll never buy PI again.

BillyD

Well basically the white stitching in shorts gives them a cool LOOK above and beyond their well-deserved comfort and performance factor. The LOOK has nothing to do with it's value as a top performer, and THAT is the OCP factor.

Lithuania

i think i got it now

rufvelo

Switch to Assos bibs and be done with this problem for good!