OK They are not rubber suits

Maggie wrote:
|| OK...I have been teased enough by calling the clothes in the bike
|| shop...rubber clothes....so I did my research and if these clothes
|| don't sound kinky than I don't know what does.... Laugh if you will
|| that I called the clothes rubber suits...but this gel in a padded
|| crotch enhancing some feeling is quite bizarre when you read it for
|| the first time.

No question about it - it's bizarre! I was so embarrassed at my LBS when
the really HOT lady cyclist who was helping me was trying to steer me away
from the Lycra shorts with the gel in the crotch! Can you imagine the
thoughts that were cycling through my mind at the moment! {i'm doubt that
you can, but hey!}

||
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"Maggie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

OK...I have been teased enough by calling the clothes in the bike
shop...rubber clothes....so I did my research and if these clothes
don't sound kinky than I don't know what does.... Laugh if you will
that I called the clothes rubber suits...but this gel in a padded
crotch enhancing some feeling is quite bizarre when you read it for
the first time.

After a few hours on the bike you'll come to appreciate each and every
bizarre word used to describe this clothing<g>

Beverly

=v= Why is one reminded of the _Batman_ movies?

=v= Batman did Critical Mass last Friday, by the way:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=27065

<_Jym_>

01 Nov 2004 13:19:15 -0800, <[email hidden]>,

Jym Dyer said:

=v= Why is one reminded of the _Batman_ movies?

There's not a lot of lycra visible on CM rides though many
participants show up in specialised cycling clothing. They don't
necessarily put it on for the ride, it's just what they wear every
day.

There's lots of comfortable and practical semi-'normal looking'
clothes from the speciality manufacturers. Normal shoes for SPDs are
harder to find.

I get good service from padded lycra shorts or liners under baggies,
cotton tee shirts and merino wool sweaters. My jerseys don't see as
much wear as the shorts. I get more use from knickers or cycling-cut
trousers than tights. I've found cycling specific jackets to be a good
investment and they can even be sorta normal looking. (now that pink
is in again!)

In most other places you can fake rain gear. That doesn't work very
well here on the drenched coast. Rubber makes lousy rain gear for
cycling though some rubberised fabrics are used for industrial gear.
--
zk

Zoot Katz said:

I get good service from padded lycra shorts or liners under baggies,
cotton tee shirts and merino wool sweaters. My jerseys don't see as
much wear as the shorts. I get more use from knickers or cycling-cut
trousers than tights. I've found cycling specific jackets to be a good
investment and they can even be sorta normal looking. (now that pink
is in again!)

I had no doubt about buying lycra shorts--I don't care how I look, I
want maximum comfort in the saddle. I found I appreciate bike-specific
jerseys more than I expected, for the pockets. I can reach a snack
while riding, and I can hear my cell phone if it rings (not what bicycle
riding should be, perhaps, but without it I wouldn't leave my kids, who
are in middle school, home alone). My shoes were a little tight in
width and fit better with bike socks than with my running socks. I
bought a vest with a windproof front and open mesh in the back, and
flourescent yellow green to make me more visible to the drivers around
here who aren't used to bicyclists.

So I ended up with the lycra look, but for practical purposes.

Pam

Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:30:17 -0500, <[email hidden]>,

pam_in_sc said:

Quoted message said:

I get good service from padded lycra shorts or liners under baggies,

\snip

Quoted message said:

I had no doubt about buying lycra shorts--I don't care how I look, I
want maximum comfort in the saddle. I found I appreciate bike-specific
jerseys more than I expected, for the pockets.

\snip

I wear the baggies for their pockets and durability, not because I
look bad lycra. If I'm not wearing baggies I'll put on a jersey for
its pockets.
--
zk

I was just about to say, have you been on a bike for a couple of hours at a
time?

"Beverly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

After a few hours on the bike you'll come to appreciate each and every
bizarre word used to describe this clothing<g>

Beverly

Quoted message said:

"Beverly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

After a few hours on the bike you'll come to appreciate each and every
bizarre word used to describe this clothing<g>

Beverly

Maybe when I am at the point of being on a bike for HOURS....I will
try some of this bizarre clothing. But at this point. I am
comfortable in a jogging suit. Or Jeans and sneakers. We'll see how
things progress if I keep riding. I still can't imagine dressing in
lycra spandex though. Or wearing something with a geled crotch. Plus
if I ride my bike to work, and I enter this office in black and pink
lycra pants with a padded crotch they will throw a net over me. I
work with men who do commercial, industrial construction. Iron workers
and such. You try walking up to an Iron worker while wearing a pink
and black lycra spandex outfit. And I am female. I can't even imagine
how they would torment a guy wearing such a thing. Think about it in
the same way as a guy walking up to Tony Soprano on the TV show
wearing spandex. How do you think that would play out.
Peace

On Mon, 01 Nov 2004 18:05:32 -0800, Zoot Katz <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Mon, 01 Nov 2004 19:30:17 -0500, <[email hidden]>,

pam_in_sc said:

Quoted message said:

I get good service from padded lycra shorts or liners under baggies,

\snip

Quoted message said:

I had no doubt about buying lycra shorts--I don't care how I look, I
want maximum comfort in the saddle. I found I appreciate bike-specific
jerseys more than I expected, for the pockets.

\snip

I wear the baggies for their pockets and durability, not because I
look bad lycra. If I'm not wearing baggies I'll put on a jersey for
its pockets.

Well if you're surrounded by lucious babes on bikes, you don't need to
assume the facade of the lycra-clad superhero...

Others, well, their mileage may vary... <g>

-B

Maggie wrote:
||| "Beverly" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
||| news:[email hidden]...
||||
|||| After a few hours on the bike you'll come to appreciate each and
|||| every bizarre word used to describe this clothing<g>
||||
|||| Beverly
||
|| Maybe when I am at the point of being on a bike for HOURS....I will
|| try some of this bizarre clothing. But at this point. I am
|| comfortable in a jogging suit. Or Jeans and sneakers. We'll see how
|| things progress if I keep riding. I still can't imagine dressing in
|| lycra spandex though. Or wearing something with a geled crotch. Plus
|| if I ride my bike to work, and I enter this office in black and pink
|| lycra pants with a padded crotch they will throw a net over me. I
|| work with men who do commercial, industrial construction. Iron
|| workers and such. You try walking up to an Iron worker while wearing
|| a pink
|| and black lycra spandex outfit. And I am female. I can't even
|| imagine how they would torment a guy wearing such a thing.

Well, if a guy is wearing pink he might have problems, but if he's simply
wearing black lycra shorts there won't be any problem, unless his shame is
showing on his face.

Think
|| about it in
|| the same way as a guy walking up to Tony Soprano on the TV show
|| wearing spandex. How do you think that would play out.

No problemo.

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 11:32:52 -0500, "Roger Zoul" <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

||You try walking up to an Iron worker while wearing
|| a pink
|| and black lycra spandex outfit. And I am female. I can't even
|| imagine how they would torment a guy wearing such a thing.

Well, if a guy is wearing pink he might have problems, but if he's simply
wearing black lycra shorts there won't be any problem, unless his shame is
showing on his face.

Heh, funny. Actually, I hope sometime in the future to be able to wear hot
pink, like Jan, on the bike. But that's at least 10 years of training away,
methinks, if ever.

IOW, when the 'look' matches the _performance_, then I'll think about it.

Quoted message said:

||Think
|| about it in
|| the same way as a guy walking up to Tony Soprano on the TV show
|| wearing spandex. How do you think that would play out.

No problemo.

Tony is Mexican?

-B

Quoted message said:

[email hidden] (Maggie)

wrote in part:

Quoted message said:

I
work with men who do commercial, industrial construction. Iron workers
and such. You try walking up to an Iron worker while wearing a pink
and black lycra spandex outfit. And I am female. I can't even imagine
how they would torment a guy wearing such a thing.

You worry far too much. Many of my coworkers have seen me in my 2000 Once TdF
jersey and shorts (yes, hot pink and black) and the comments have mostly been
restricted to, "Man, you got cojones!". Of course the facts that:
1) I look good in it and
2) I carry a gun
might have something to do with the lack of torment. <g>

Regards,
Bob Hunt

(Hunrobe) said:

Quoted message said:

[email hidden] (Maggie)

wrote in part:

Quoted message said:

I
work with men who do commercial, industrial construction. Iron workers
and such. You try walking up to an Iron worker while wearing a pink
and black lycra spandex outfit. And I am female. I can't even imagine
how they would torment a guy wearing such a thing.

You worry far too much. Many of my coworkers have seen me in my 2000 Once TdF
jersey and shorts (yes, hot pink and black) and the comments have mostly been
restricted to, "Man, you got cojones!". Of course the facts that:
1) I look good in it and
2) I carry a gun
might have something to do with the lack of torment. <g>

Regards,
Bob Hunt

..jpgs, please.

-B
Make sure you get the Glock and the bike in it too, though.

Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:16:05 -0500,
<[email hidden]>,

Badger_South said:

Well if you're surrounded by lucious babes on bikes, you don't need to
assume the facade of the lycra-clad superhero...

Others, well, their mileage may vary... <g>

There's a bit of conflict there as most of these young women are of
the counter-cultural persuasion so to some extent shun the lycra look
for bikes. Sara however very much liked my watermelon jersey and bib
knickers and expressed that she needs to get some padded shorts for
herself. Cara loves all my pink stuff but I've gotten several
compliments on that.
--
zk