Originally Posted by
chado445510
I machine wash and dry everything. I didn't know colors would bleed or it would damage. I put it on cold and soft wash, then low heat and short dry. No bleeding, and comes in handy 1 hour before a group ride.
Colour bleeding is a very, very rare thing, and if it happens, it tends to happen with cheaper cotton clothes in red or blue. If, for example, you pick up a red cotton T-shirt for $5 from a discount place, there is the possibility that it will turn your white underwear pink if you were to wash the T-shirt with your underwear. But cycling clothes aren't cotton and are usually higher quality than a discount T-shirt, so the chances they will bleed is pretty remote.
As for damage ... a wash machine and dryer should not damage your cycling clothes.