Cycling without knickers? I've become a pro

[Melonfish]

pfft she doesn't know what she's missing, a decent g-string can keep me in the saddle for miles. got to watch vpl on my lycra mind...

 

[compo]

Well obviously you don't need to wash them on days that you don't wear them

Isn't the day you don't wear them the very day you should wash them. After all you won't wash them when wearing them.

 

[VamP]

Isn't the day you don't wear them the very day you should wash them. After all you won't wash them when wearing them.

Same day wash for me. I might need them again the next day!

 

[Leodis]

Nothing like the smell of bib tights on the towel rail at work on a Friday, worn all week

 

[Jonbek]

So what we've learnt today is people from Yorkshire only wash their pants one day a week

 

[sheffgirl]

So what we've learnt today is people from Yorkshire only wash their pants one day a week

Haha, we're tight, what do you expect?
I don't see the point in doing lots of small washes when I can do one big wash. Or should I say, wesh

 

[ayceejay]

If you Northerners are as 'ard as you make out and really went 'commando' there'd be no washing at all involved.

 

[Leodis]

If you Northerners are as 'ard as you make out and really went 'commando' there'd be no washing at all involved.

This is for tights, that's all I wear all year around bibs and nowt else

 

[thom]

I read that and thought, hey heres a lightweight but positive story about why cyclists wear lycra for Telegraph readers.
It is important that its written by a Telegraph insider who is changing her mind/perception so might change a few readers attitudes.

Slightly prurient and silly but no point getting worried about - it is clearly aimed at an audience who aren't cyclists.

 

[coffeejo]

Haha, we're tight, what do you expect?
I don't see the point in doing lots of small washes when I can do one big wash. Or should I say, wesh

I hand wash my shorts after each ride if there’s not enough laundry to do a machine wash. Only takes a few minutes.

 

[Frood42]

Still wearing my muddy fox padded mountain bike shorts on the commute here, and I go "commando" as it were as well, although I have also fallen back to wearing footy socks now that it has got a bit chillier.

I do one hot wash a week for the cycling/running gear, but then I also put the sweaty stuff in a quick 30 min wash in the evenings to freshen them up a bit and take advantage of the spin cycle, as they come out drier after a spin cycle and will actually dry overnight (they don't dry properly if I just hang up after a ride, I sweat too much )...

 

[Melonfish]

Nothing like the smell of bib tights on the towel rail at work on a Friday, worn all week

i just threw up in my mouth a little bit...

 

[hopless500]

Nothing like the smell of bib tights on the towel rail at work on a Friday, worn all week

 

[Leodis]

i just threw up in my mouth a little bit...

Thinking of the planet first...

I did actually change my bibs today, I kinda rotate them but since changing pedals to flats I kinda look a tit wearing bibs.