Jim Boyer wrote in part:
> Why do so many articles about cycling and road sharing issues veer off into
> discussions about cycling gear. ...
Because it can look absolutely bizarre and comical to the wider
non-cycling population? and to some of the cycling population
too I would guess. It is possible to recognize the benefits of
cycling clothing and still understand how it might work as an
alienating force. Bike-specific clothing has been alienating
cyclists from the wider population since bikes were invented.
At the beginning, when riding a bicycle was almost exclusively
a leisure activity for the rich, bike clothes functioned in two ways--
they made cycling a bit easier and they set cyclists still
further apart as the elitists they were.
> ... The clothing is optional but the bottom line is that they are work
> clothes. I guess if you don't understand the work you won't understand the
> clothes.
Let's get real here Jim. The only people who are working on
their bikes are the practitioners of industrialized cycling:
pro racers and messengers.
Robert