Originally Posted by Hitchy
G'day,
Bike shop gear?....nah, I'm lucky enough to have a personal sponsor, (The Adventure Travel Company, Sth Melbourne...looking to take in Le tour in 2005?..contact David Ollie), or we just wear the club gear, or whatever happens to be clean!...nothing flash about these guys!....thats why we can't go to beach Rd, If your knicks don't match your jersey or your socks....the fashion police give ya a ticket & colour charts....its a bit of 'queer eye for the cycling guy'! .......& me with luminous yellow shoes, (hey, they were cheap alright!)
hitchy
Sponsor?!?!? Wow, you must be a semi neo quasi part-time pro!!
Ok then, LOOK OUT (I hope Wattsy's not one of these guys
)......
Talk about Beach Road poseurs (that's French, for "poseurs"), I deliberately wear non-matching gear, and try hard to wear my 1980s Gatorade top as much as possible.
But what really gets me is these guys who ride around wearing "shop gear", pretending to have a sponsorship, and pretending to be riding in teams.
I'm sure some of them have real sponsorships, some of them have quasi sponsorships (where they get 5% off tyres, but still pay full price for the clothes), but most of them, I'm sure, have NOTHIN', and cruise around thinkin' they're Baden bloody Cooke.
So, who's gear is the worst. I think the Fitzroy Cycles gear is a bit drab, but the Pro Motion gear is too shiny. I like the Richmond Cyclery gear