Is wearing Lycra a bit gay...?

So I rode to work this morning with the outline of my winkie showing

I'm inspired and will show the dutch my winkie tonight.

I read that and I think so fucking what?

My reaction is the same, even though I've been riding for the last 30 years, starting at the age of 10, making me 38 and then technically a MAMIL. I wear my lycra kit on long rides...if you're not down with lycra, fine, rock those skinny trousers and pants on a nice little ride to Brighton and back and see how you feel after.

Cycling is the new golf for middle aged men...carbon fiber and Italian components = a new elitism.

Lycra is excellent on long rides, however I think it is useful to toughen up your bum toe able to ride at least moderate distances without a chamois.

bum toe

???

Like a camel toe but for boys.

Cliveo, like this?

http://www.eatnineghost.com/why-bicycle-shorts-are-always-black/

Discussed here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/27/lycra-cycling-shorts-sexy

Apologies if a repost, I CBA to read all 7 pages of whether lycra is OK!

To counter a few recent claims in this thread, I'm gay and I'm always disappointed when people use the word 'gay' as a derogatory term (I've learned not to be offended as that's usually what people want). It's a term that in embedded in playground homophobia and all too recently for people to claim that it has evolved to mean something else.

It's a term that in embedded in playground homophobia and all too recently for people to claim that it has evolved to mean something else.
I whole heartedly agree with this.

+1

+2

Totally agree. It is like the use of the word "Irish" to mean stupid or "Jewish" to mean stingy. Both those playground expressions are now hopefully and thankfully of the past just as the expressions "gay" or "ghey" ought to be when used to mean anything other than happily homosexual.

Yes.

Sometimes I think people just need to harden the fuck up a little bit.

I couldn't live my life getting offended about things people say. Surely there are bigger fish to fry?

food again?

Cliveo, like this?

http://www.eatnineghost.com/why-bicycle-shorts-are-always-black/

Discussed here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/apr/27/lycra-cycling-shorts-sexy

Apologies if a repost, I CBA to read all 7 pages of whether lycra is OK!

Joe, I think so.

Happily I am of an age when the aesthetics of these things no longer bother me and I dress for comfort and practicality.

Hope all is well with you ansd that you are enjoying S London. A Level day and we are on tenterhooks for daughter no2

Sometimes I think people just need to harden the fuck up a little bit.

I couldn't live my life getting offended about things people say. Surely there are bigger fish to fry?

Sure, I was riding around the other week and got called fat by some bloke and it didn't bother me in the slightest. The use of "gay" as a pejorative term is a wee bit different though.

Don't really want to kick that whole debate off though...

Sometimes I think people just need to harden the fuck up a little bit.

I couldn't live my life getting offended about things people say. Surely there are bigger fish to fry?

hmmmmmm fish...

Sometimes I think people just need to harden the fuck up a little bit.

I couldn't live my life getting offended about things people say. Surely there are bigger fish to fry?

Thing is Balki, all cats love fish but hate to get their paws wet.

In all seriousness i get this when I cycle to rugby training during winter. In bibs+a dozen or so other lycra layers. The crap use of the word gay aside. It weirds me out that people think sitting on their arse in a 4x4 for 10mins, is somehow more masculine than cycling along harsh winter roads.

There was a concise slagging of the contemporary use of 'gay' in that Simon wotsit sitcom the other night. Paraphrase:

"Oh, so you're using the word 'gay' to describe something that's shit. Why would people have a problem with that?"

In all seriousness i get this when I cycle to rugby training during winter. In bibs+a dozen or so other lycra layers. The crap use of the word gay aside. It weirds me out that people think sitting on their arse in a 4x4 for 10mins, is somehow more masculine than cycling along harsh winter roads.

sexist

There was a concise slagging of the contemporary use of 'gay' in that Simon wotsit sitcom the other night. Paraphrase:

"Oh, so you're using the word 'gay' to describe something that's shit. Why would people have a problem with that?"

yep.

also - that show is ace. i am in love simon amstell.

sexiest

ftfy

Fair play...

What I'm saying is like... Will Smith'had a hugely successful single in predominantly white Australia with Getting jiggy with it... Jiggy... Fuck me. Little white schoolgirls with Walkmans gettin all jiggy. Hilarious. Incidentally, that was the same year Offspring sounded their death knell by releasing Pretty fly for a white guy.

There is a very good point about the use of the term 'gay' in there somewhere.