How old is too old for Lycra 🥴

[icowden]

Flat caps

Only Peaky Blinders cosplayers.

Jeans

Only for the under 40s or people doing DIY / gardening.

Shoes without socks

Hanging offence.

shirt without tie

Everyone - business casual.

Track suit to watch TV

Only in Liverpool and council estates (this is a joke).

 

[BoldonLad]

Only Peaky Blinders cosplayers.

Only for the under 40s or people doing DIY / gardening.

Hanging offence.

Everyone - business casual.

Only in Liverpool and council estates (this is a joke).

I am a taking it all as a joke, or, assuming you live in North Korea.

 

[Oldhippy]

I use a cycle as transport, sometimes 1 hour, sometimes 6 or 7 hours on a day out. Brooks saddle combat trousers, walking boots with a t shirt. No need for special gear personally.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Well for professional cyclists, comfort isn't a primary design aim of the bike, so referencing them in this regard isn't necessarily useful..

I would have thought if you were riding over 3000 km in 3 weeks, comfort would be a very high priority!

 

[ExBrit]

I suspect Exbrit didn't know (an TBH I'd forgotten until pointed out by somebody else after ExBrit's post) that Ming is normally a recumbent rider - and did LEL on a recumbent.

Very different requirements for comfort to those of us riding uprights.

'Bents don't count. I used to ride one many years ago and butt padding was unnecessary. We're talking real bikes here.

 

[ExBrit]

I use a cycle as transport, sometimes 1 hour, sometimes 6 or 7 hours on a day out. Brooks saddle combat trousers, walking boots with a t shirt. No need for special gear personally.

Funny you mention that. There was a chap who rode with the club many years back on a 40 year old bike, regular shorts, tee-shirt, gardening gloves, toe-clips. He was perfectly happy. He was also one out of a hundred. Your average person wouldn't do that. It takes all sorts.

 

[Venod]

I have just been on holiday, in the gym there were three bikes, two with normal saddles and one recumbent style, it soon became apparent that with just running shorts on I wasn't riding the normal bikes for any length of time, the recumbent I rode everyday.

It seems 50+ years of shorts with inserts has made me soft.

https://www.roadbikerider.com/padded-cycling-shorts-help/#:~:text=Cycling shorts are really tight,ll want to wear them.

 

[abcd efg]

45 Returning to road cycling but am I too old for Lycra ?😱
13 stone, healthy figure 😛, (wife says my legs are my best bit, the rest is crap) and spend most of my life wearing shorts (even in winter) but am I just too old now to wear the budgie smuggling bib shorts and figure hugging tops of a road cyclist ?

I'm 80 and often wear Lycra especially for a long or difficult ride. Age should have nothing to do with what you wear. But I am going to talk to Corrine Dennis about her touring shorts. I expect they might be a great addition to my cycling wardrobe.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

How old is too old for Lycra? About 145 I'd say. You'd maybe be past it by then perhaps. Maybe

 

[abcd efg]

I'm 80 and often wear Lycra especially for a long or difficult ride. Age should have nothing to do with what you wear. But I am going to talk to Corrine Dennis about her touring shorts. I expect they might be a great addition to my cycling wardrobe.

Should have said Corrine Douglas, not aa

 

[abcd efg]

Should have said Corrine Douglas, not Dennis in my message above. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[davidphilips]

The only question that should be asked about wearing lycra, is the lycra to old for you?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I suspect Ming will try to claim they (and we) have all been taken in by the marketing hype, and those shorts really aren't necessary.

Big difference between comfort issues over 70 or so hours of riding with little rest and having comfort issues after an hour.