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I ride 100+ miles a week. I follow the highway code, am courteous to other road users. I wear cycle specific clothing, it keeps me cool, and keeps my saddle sores at bay. Most of the worst cycling I see is by in experienced cyclists, often in what kahn describes as 'normal' clothing.

With this comment, Kahn is promoting a false prejudice based on appearance. He is saying that people who look like me are assholes. He is also saying that it is impossible to get a work-out from your commute, without riding agressively. I climb Gipsy hill every night, sometimes twice. I sprint down the longer open stretches of the old kent road. I manage to do this without antagonising anyone.

Kahn is a twat should speak to some cyclists before pronouncing on them.

So every cyclist should change into the clothes that you find appropriate for your atypically high cycling distance and speed, every time they hop on their bike to pop to the shops?

And anyone that dares to suggest that dressing like a normal person while engaging in a normal activity might help you be viewed as a normal person doing a normal activity is a twat?

If that's really what you believe then maybe he's right about the asshole thing.