Overcoming fear of lycra

[numbnuts]

I hate the cycling, but love the lycra I even go shopping in it and to hell what people think

 

[roadrash]

If you are packing, people just stare and wonder whether it's socks! I don't walk into cafes in my vest and undershorts and that's basically all most Lycra is. Unless one's racing or training to race, there's no excuse for skimpy Lycra on men. You're like those people going shopping in a bikini or budgie smugglers.

and who is it that dictates what you should or shouldn't wear

 

[Bollo]

You don't? You should try it, it's awesome!

I hate the cycling, but love the lycra I even go shopping in it and to hell what people think

Basically no one in mid Hampshire wears clothes.

 

[Will Spin]

Get out there and strut your stuff, the more cycling you do the better you will look in lycra.

 

[HarryTheDog]

When I started cycling around 12 years ago I was just under morbidly obesse and chose clothes that said to the world I was not a cyclist ie baggy joggers etc. I lost the wieght and found I did not look too bad in lycra. I have to walk around a office full of people before and after my commutes and have had some favourable comments. Best one was from a bloke, " shame 6 people stood in the kitchen,5 women and one bloke and its the bloke with the best butt". I was quite suprised when a good looking middle aged lady left the company and asked if she could fondle my arse before she left as she had wanted to do it for years!
I let her obviously, who am I to deny her a simple pleasure.

 

[ianrauk]

Wear lycra and don't give a hoot what people think. People really don't care. And ignore people who say you shouldn't wear lycra, It's designed to be comfy on the bike. If it get's wet, it dries quick, it evaporates sweat quickly when you're hot. It doesn't flap around in the wind. Millions of cyclists wear lycra. It's the norm.

 

[Welsh wheels]

Wear it with pride, who cares what people think.

 

[Welsh wheels]

When I started cycling around 12 years ago I was just under morbidly obesse and chose clothes that said to the world I was not a cyclist ie baggy joggers etc. I lost the wieght and found I did not look too bad in lycra. I have to walk around a office full of people before and after my commutes and have had some favourable comments. Best one was from a bloke, " shame 6 people stood in the kitchen,5 women and one bloke and its the bloke with the best butt". I was quite suprised when a good looking middle aged lady left the company and asked if she could fondle my arse before she left as she had wanted to do it for years!
I let her obviously, who am I to deny her a simple pleasure.

 

[DRHysted]

It's a mental thing. It took me quite a while to not feel ashamed to be seen in Lycra. Now I don't give a damn.

 

[John the Monkey]

Dave Moulton wrote a good piece on this a little while back;
http://davesbikeblog.squarespace.com/blog/2008/4/25/what-to-wear.html

 

[BikeCurious]

Just do it and enjoy it. If they stare, give them a cheery wave. No need to be embarrassed.

 

[johnnyb47]

Wear it with pride, who cares what people think.

Exactly my sentiments too.. Life's to short to worry about what others think..I look like a Vac PAC bag of spuds in mine and I don't give a stuff how others perceive me buddy :-)

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Wear what you like, where you like, when you like.

Don't judge or criticise others for how they dress.

End of, really. Though I admit I used to lapse in the case of full kit self-gratification artists, I've now moved on.

 

[ianrauk]

Wear what you like, where you like, when you like.

Don't judge or criticise others for how they dress.

End of, really. Though I admit I used to lapse in the case of full kit self-gratification artists, I've now moved on.

Except Hi-Viz right?

 

[Tim Hall]

There's a line in one of the Rumpole stories, where he's considering cycling, but dismisses it because:
"You have to wear rubber shorts and hat shaped like a Brazil nut"

Having said that, I have lots of rubber Lycra shorts. No nut shaped hats though.