seedsbelize 

Good luck with all that.

woodway

I think PRO riders look dorky. Most serious cyclists think I look dorky (I wear MTB shorts and loose fitting performance shirts on my road bike). But what does it matter? Pro riders and serious cyclists like what they wear and I like what I wear. I think we can all get along

WC89

I'm fine with your opinion, maybe a little suprised, but I'm fine with it and respect it. Got no problems with what you wear on your road bike either. Follow your own rules and style One thing I'm better at in my 50s than in my earlier years is, accepting how very, very different many of us are with repsect to personal preferences. We can surely get along

BlazingPedals

I've let this thread sit for over a week while I thought about my opinions. The thing is, I see this as another broadside fired in one-sided war. Those of us who wear lycra are labeled as "dorky" and prisoners-of-fashion for spending megabucks on bike duds, while the lycra opponents' choices are intelligent and sensible. I don't think I've ever seen a pro-lycra person label the plain-clothes proponents as "dorky;" and we've been on the receiving end for so long the anti-lycra crowd seems to think it's okay to bash us and never get a shot fired in return. I'm getting a bit tired of the constant onslaught.

Henceforth I'm going to take a position that if you're a road rider and you don't wear lycra, it's because there's something wrong with you. Maybe you're fat, maybe you were molested as a child... who knows??? Mountain bikers are excused because sturdier fabrics are called for when riding in the brush and visibility isn't an issue; but MUP riders are not, because they still have to cross roads; and stuff like what was linked in the OP just aren't visible enough to be safe. But they'd sure look nice at the piano bar.

Mobile 155

I tend to agree.

All in all this has been one of the more civil lycra-o-phobe threads. And for the most part I don't care if anyone else likes cycling specific bibs and shorts or jerseys or not. I do take some offense to the slights of division that are so often voiced by the clothing luddites. Often they will say we should be able to wear what we want and then add, even the racer wanna-be and posers. But I have yet to read a thread started by people secure enough to wear Lycra/Spandex making fun of how MUP riders, Utility riders, commuters and bent riders dressed.

So I would propose that when such a thread is started we simply exchange terms. Those wearing Lycra and cycling jerseys address whoever we are debating with, Dress like the Homeless Wanna-be and we can accept the Dress like a racer Wanna-be.

Once the name calling is out of the way we can move on to cycling related subjects.

DnvrFox

I am 73 and I wear what I want. This includes a bright Spider-Man jersey, and I wear it because the little kids love seeing me in it. I also wear two Ride the Rockies jerseys, jeans, regular shorts, bibs, t shirts - whatever suits my fancy, and I don't give a hoot what anyone else thinks or says.

This argument and name-calling about what folks wear seems to never end. Why in the world does anyone care what others wear? I just can't figure it out.

brianmcg123

I like it. The more companies that make biking clothes that don't peg you a biker if your not standing by your bike the better. I have taken lately to wearing a shorts liner and some baggy jogging shorts and cool max t-shirts. But I never really look like a roadie on my Surly Trucker anyway. The fenders give me away.

BlazingPedals

The problem with that attitude is, it lets the anti-lycra bigots think they're right and allows the intolerance to grow. I may not care what anyone wears when they're riding, but from now on, the hobo look is fair game for ridicule, too. If they want to bash me for wearing lycra, I'm going to start bashing them back.

DnvrFox

I meant I don't give a hoot what anyone in the public thinks or says. Not bicyclists, although I really don't care what they think, either, come to think about it a bit more.

Mobile 155

To be clear are you saying you don't want anyone to think you are a cyclist? When I took up tennis I "never" worried if someone pegged me as a tennis player. When I raced sail boats I "never" worried if someone pegged me as a sailor. Same for golf shirts. But it looks like you would rather have them think you are jogger that a cyclist. But I a not sure that is your intention. I have gone to the store, my doctors office, the mall and even to church wearing my helmet and gloves and MTB shoes. The chances that I would be mistaken for a jogger are slim and none. Unless they thought I was a jogger that fell a lot.