Originally Posted by
TenSpeedV2
This knitpicking over what people are wearing when they ride is just ridiculous. I wear what is comfortable on the bike, and cycling specific clothes are comfortable to me on the bike. You want to wear jeans or chinos or whatever, go ahead. There is already enough snobbery within the hobby, this just adds to it.
You are the one quibbling. I reported exactly what I saw and the choice of bicycles and equipment and lack of helmets and cycling specific attire was striking, not to mention the smoking while cycling and walking. It is what it is and that was all it was meant to be, a report of what I saw, and at that a report of one person on one visit. Though I have been to Europe before a number of times but did not pay attention to cycling so much, however, nothing I saw in those visits was any different. It is not about good or bad or right or wrong, it is what I saw.