It's exactly the same as someone playing amateur rugby in a rugby shirt
or playing amateur cricket in a cricket whites and pads, it's called wearing appropriate clothes for what you are doing. If you only cycle ten minutes then it's probably not necessary, but much longer than that then as I said, you are a fool for deliberately wearing clothes that make the cycling less pleasant. It doesn't make you "salt of the earth" it makes you a fool.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 4 Jun 2010, 16:44, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

no it's the same as that rugby player walking to work in their rugby kit
I'm not the salt of the earth, never claim to be (white, middle-class, had it far to easy southern Nancy boy probably covers it), just less of a poser (in this area, probably not others)than you.
As for deliberately wearing clothes that make cycling less pleasant, well, this could be said (in the same way that you deliberately don't help starving children when you choose to spend your cash on cycling gear rather than donate it to charity), or one could just say I have different priorities and better, to my mind, things to spend the money on.

If, in your mind this makes me a fool, well I can live with that, and I guess you can live with being thought a poser
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 4 Jun 2010, 16:54, Reply)

It's clearly not the same as a rugby player walking to walk in their kit though is it
that's a ridiculous rebuttal.

You claim to be really into bikes and think they are worth spending money on, but you obviously don't actually ride that much, because if you did you would realise, along with every single professional cyclist, that the padded lycra shorts and skin tight jerseys make riding for long periods of time vastly more comfortable than wearing an old T-shirt and cotton shorts. But if you do actually ride lots, then you're pretty stupid for not realising this.

Some people on bikes are cunts, some people aren't. People that ride a lot will buy lycra clothes to ride in as they are more comfortable. This has no correlation with their level of cuntiness, it's just being practical.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 4 Jun 2010, 17:03, Reply)

Yes Al, I'm sure you're right
your generalization about why people wear lycra is obviously more valid than mine /sarcasm

but hey I guess it's probably a mixture, some pose some practicality, still look stupid to me, but there you go.

As for how much I ride, maybe 50 miles a week all told, I have no idea if that's a lot or not. I do like bikes, they are pretty much my only mode of transport and it's a rare day I'm not on one, I also like repairing and building them, probably about as much, although I'm not a serious mechanic, anymore than I'm a 'serious' cyclist, make of that what you will.

You seem very aggressive on this subject, did I piss in your cornflakes at some point that I've forgotten? I men, so your a poser, on that bike what did you expect? I'd not object to being called whatever the opposite is for riding the collection of rust buckets that I do.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Fri 4 Jun 2010, 17:13, Reply)