Save tights for race day?
I don't know anything about cycling so I never understood this.
Save tights for race day?
I don't know anything about cycling so I never understood this.
The shorts would blow around in the wind and they might lose their loose change
When I started biking I thought the same thing and wore baggy shorts. When you are riding 20mph the wind blows the baggy shorts up and the shorts become shorter than running shorts.
Bike seats are hard and when you ride 4 or 5 hours padding helps a lot.
Cyclists commonly ride 80-120 miles for a long ride. You will wear a hole right through your skin if you don't wear cycling shorts. Even with good shorts and chamois cream your skin and soft tissues hurt. Wearing loose shorts would give you saddle sores. Tight shorts, jerseys and shaving legs have little to do with aerodynamics. It has most to do with keeping fabric close to skin for moisture transfer and keeping the fabric from folding over and bunching up in the crotch.
Even 35 yrs ago they used shorts like today (bibs), but they were wool and had natural chamois-skin pads.
Still doesn't explain why each and every one of them dresses like they're sponsored when none of them (or very few) are. The day-glo cannondale shirts, the dumb tights with neon letters. 5K$ worth of equipment so they can take 4 hours to ride 40 miles. Seriously? Always love throwing on a cotton T, running shoes, stepping into my 80s toe clips and keeping up with the dorks who think they are something special, which in my experience seeems to be about 80% of the people on the road. Just seems like a different, less friendly culture than the running one I adore.
has been who never was wrote:
Still doesn't explain why each and every one of them dresses like they're sponsored when none of them (or very few) are. The day-glo cannondale shirts, the dumb tights with neon letters. 5K$ worth of equipment so they can take 4 hours to ride 40 miles. Seriously? Always love throwing on a cotton T, running shoes, stepping into my 80s toe clips and keeping up with the dorks who think they are something special, which in my experience seeems to be about 80% of the people on the road. Just seems like a different, less friendly culture than the running one I adore.
that's pretty pathetic that you can only ride 10 mph especially with toe clips.
Yeah, I'm not buying your braggadocio, dude. I'm betting you're a mediocre runner, too.
Unlike you, maybe they're actually MEN so they don't wear DRESSES for exercise.
Baggy shorts chafe like crazy on a bike ride with all the wind and repetitive motion. And if you've ever been on a 100 mile ride you'd wish there were even more padding by the end.
Think about it, you don't change your attire really THAT much for running races. Sure you may have a light weight singlet instead of a light weight shirt or no shirt and a specific pair of slightly shorter or more split shorts but overall it is the same type of gear.
Oh and they wear the goofy shirts because they have pockets in the back and are a little longer in the back so they don't fry the small of their back when they spend several hours on the open road. Believe me, it hurts.
My dick goes numb. Pins and needles in your dick are not funny.
has been who never was - cyclist train just like runners, so you saying that you can jump in and keep up with a group is pretty meaningless.
That is like someone jumping in on my 8 mile easy day at 7:15 pace and saying that I am a joke. You don't see that I did an interval workout the day before.
I had that mindset when I first started and could keep up easily, that is until I started actually training and doing some of the groups workouts, hill climbs, etc. Just like running, cycling isn't easy.
So they wouldn't be called Fred when a serious cycling dude rolls up on them at a stoplight.
Fair enough TLW. I am definitely an outsider when it comes to cycling and am not going to pretend like I'm in the know. I also cycle a bit as well and concur it is hard work, especially legit ascents on the seat.
But your post does not answer my question: why do 99% of the cyclists I see on the road dress like they are sponsored cat 1 riders when they can barely bike 15 mph for any considerable distance? I certainly understand the need for sadddle shorts and padding, but the whole dumb matching neon get ups are just too much. Pure, vain, superficial silliness I say.
That was my only point, which BTW still has not been addressed or refuted.
One part you don't understand is that the dumb neon (as you put it), serves a purpose.
Cycling is 1000 times more dangerous than running, so standing out to drivers is important, that's why you don't see cyclists wearing full black uniforms or dull colors. You get hit by a car going driving 30mph and you will be dead or seriously injured.
Believe me, when you are biking 20 mph and cars are passing you at 55 mph you want to stand out.
Unlike running, in cycling you are a vehicle on the road and must be visible to other vehicles, even during the day.
Cyclist also like to wear the pro kits because they are fans of the sport, similar to people wearing NBA jerseys when they run. It's part of the culture of the sport, just like runners wearing short shorts.
I ment to say NBA jerseys when they play basketball.
Also, I should mention I have never experienced the total rage and aggressiveness of other human beings until I started cycling.
Motorists rage, and I mean RAGE, when they have to pass a cyclist. I only cycled for a year and stopped because of it.
Looking like a neon billboard is better than death.
When I got a running injury, I switched to cycling. Like the OP, I thought I would just wear khakis and a T-shirt instead of those silly outfits. Boy was I wrong. 20 miles into a ride and I realized it was difficult for cars to see me, my crotch was entirely numb, and I didn't have enough places to store food. Those silly jerseys and shorts solved all three problems.
Haha yo (super serial) wrote:
Save tights for race day?
I don't know anything about cycling so I never understood this.
why don't you wear jeans on your training runs and save the shorts for races?
god, you're stupid.
has been who never was wrote:
But your post does not answer my question: why do 99% of the cyclists I see on the road dress like they are sponsored cat 1 riders
That was my only point, which BTW still has not been addressed or refuted.
Before I was a sponsored Cat 1 rider I was a sponsored Cat 2. And before that, a sponsored 3. And before that, a sponsored Junior/4.
The amount of sponsorship changed significantly, but when I was a junior/4 I still wore the jersey of the shop and the businesses that supported that shop for the free kit, entry fees, and bonuses I got. And everyone that saw me knew that and maybe they stopped by that shop from time to time. Who knows.
Regardless, maybe you should stop spouting your ignorance in such an aggressive manner because you just sound like a dumba$$ with a penchant for being a dumba$$.
That's a good point. I had been riding for less then a year and the local shop gave me a full kit because I started racing and doing well.
Sponsorship for cycling, even at the local level, blows running away.