I started using lycra when i did time-trials...many a moon ago...i find it comfortable....but i ride fixed in Cambridgeshire...doing 25-40miles.....not stop start unless i crash then it just stop...or splat.....Rapha stuff looks good but hellishly expensive......as for cycle cap...I had a dinky one...but after last crash covered in the red stuff....ambulance bloke kind of disposed of it......when i had pink bikes my mother was suspicious that i was gay....even though i had loads of kids....got used to that......My Assos bib tights are virtually dead......but comfortable when the weather is warm and as some else mentioned it does not catch on the saddle.......Lycra bib tights are good in the winter though. In the past firms like Hebden Cord...made Rapha like stuff only at sensible prices...not Condor 'well to do' prices.......But then again what do we mean by gay/ghay........homosexual...or useless?........I ride fixed cos i like it......what i wear is ditated by what i can afford and what is comfortable......not by the dictate of fashion or fixie culture......but then again that may be different in London.
I started using lycra when i did time-trials...many a moon ago...i find it comfortable....but i ride fixed in Cambridgeshire...doing 25-40miles.....not stop start unless i crash then it just stop...or splat.....Rapha stuff looks good but hellishly expensive......as for cycle cap...I had a dinky one...but after last crash covered in the red stuff....ambulance bloke kind of disposed of it......when i had pink bikes my mother was suspicious that i was gay....even though i had loads of kids....got used to that......My Assos bib tights are virtually dead......but comfortable when the weather is warm and as some else mentioned it does not catch on the saddle.......Lycra bib tights are good in the winter though. In the past firms like Hebden Cord...made Rapha like stuff only at sensible prices...not Condor 'well to do' prices.......But then again what do we mean by gay/ghay........homosexual...or useless?........I ride fixed cos i like it......what i wear is ditated by what i can afford and what is comfortable......not by the dictate of fashion or fixie culture......but then again that may be different in London.