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This white lycra when wet. It should not be allowed. I have seen it a couple of times and the gentalmen wearing it alwas seem a bit podgy.
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hippy When lycra wears out it gets thin.. thin and see-through.. "cover up your coin slot" will be mentioned..
Dunno about this arse-mesh though? Did he have some bib-knicks on backwards or something?!?!?!No! the lycra was supposed to be that way. That's what's so amazing, that geezer walked into shop and thought to himself, you know what, I'll buy the cycling shorts with the see through arse section, they're just the thing to make me go faster...
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Castelli could be the culprits..
"mesh back": http://www.castelli-us.com/pc-777-5-wicked-bibshort.aspx
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I'm all in favour of women wearing lycra...
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I used to go out training with a mate, and his shorts were so old that you could see his skin through all the stitching up the back of his legs and his arse. So I used to spend a lot of time on the front...
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velocity boy Nah, Cycle Fit have Castelli stuff and it's only mesh down to the usual line where shorts would be.
It sounds more like it's just worn. Cheap lycra can be thin, some colours are more revealing than others, and with a little time all lycra is thread-bare.
Not trying to be argumentative, but I can be if you really want me to.. ;-P but definitely wasn't worn through, mesh area was from the waist down to where the padded seat would be, and you could see the stitching. Also his gear was a bit too expensive for him to be wearing threadbare cycling shorts...
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This mystery cyclist wasn't Boris Johnson, was he?
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cornelius blackfoot [quote]velocity boy Nah, Cycle Fit have Castelli stuff and it's only mesh down to the usual line where shorts would be.
It sounds more like it's just worn. Cheap lycra can be thin, some colours are more revealing than others, and with a little time all lycra is thread-bare.
Not trying to be argumentative, but I can be if you really want me to.. ;-P but definitely wasn't worn through, mesh area was from the waist down to where the padded seat would be, and you could see the stitching. Also his gear was a bit too expensive for him to be wearing threadbare cycling shorts...[/quote]
This just sounds like fetish wear and not cycling gear.
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hippy
One rider I'd never pass.I would. Over and over.
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For years I just wore jeans and I never had a problem
BUT I bought a pair of shorts the other day
so my legs would go brown on me training rides
so I was out today and my Kelvins got all bunched up
and started to chaff
so I went to this bike shop
and looked at the lycra shorts
to wear UNDER these other shorts I got
so I got a question
do they all have these strange 'inserts'
I mean is this 'normal'
I was kinda expecting chamois leather or summit....?
(its a bit gay innit, all this)
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to be honest i find normal lycra boxers don't bunch up particularly and are fine riding up to about 20 miles (on a brooks, tho), but like jeans on a bike, they shred up round the crotch. Shredded jeans plus shredded boxers = indecent exposure. So I started wearing lycra padded cycling undershort things which are great though a bit expensive and those dirt cheap hennies 3/4 jean things, which cost less than the damned undershorts.
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I'll think I'll try a cheap pair of lycra undershorts and see how we get on
I definately have chaffing with them beach shorts -
that's put me right off me sausage roll that has...
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actually I think I just changed my mind
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When lycra goes too far!
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I've always worn lycra, had too many saddle sore moments with bunched up undies not to, but being a courier from aeons ago I wear shorts over lycra, got to have access to keys, money, phone, pens, etc...
Now I should say I don't hate on those that want to pretend they're in the tdf and wear lycra and nothing else in honour of their heroes, just don't like to see your knob swinging when you get out of the saddle, but I digress, today on the ride in roadie on a nice Condor, turning a big gear, came past, and he had lycra shorts on, so far so okay, but they had some sort of semi see through mesh at the back so that I could see his crack as he motored away from me. Now maybe there's some reason (cooling?) for this but dude! no one needs to see your sweaty hairy crack whilst you ride, it's just not right!! And it's not okay!
I felt dirty just looking at it.
Anyone else had inappropriate cycle wear sightings or is it just me?....