Overcoming fear of lycra

[Welsh wheels]

The only things I find slightly awkward is wearing lycra in front of non-cycling friends or family. For some reason, they're surprised to see the outline of my organs.

 

[Andrew_Culture]

Form a band and go on stage wearing lycra. When you've done that you'll find wearing cycling lycra feels totally normal.

That's me on the left

 

[Andrew_Culture]

The last time I got funny looks for wearing lycra was at Ipswich Railway station, I was on my way to London so I could ride back to Ipswich.

When I spotted the gawkers I thought to myself that they're really only seeing part of the story; they've probably got no idea about chamois creme...

 

[Davos87]

I wear Lycra and I too would love a 9 inch schlong but I've told the wife.......I'm not having 3 inches cut off for anyone.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Except Hi-Viz right?

Hi-Viz doth offend mine eye.

But I won't judge the wearer for it

 

[numbnuts]

Basically no one in mid Hampshire wears clothes.

Yes your right River Hamble this morning

 

[Bollo]

I wear Lycra and I too would love a 9 inch schlong but I've told the wife.......I'm not having 3 inches cut off for anyone.

 

[Bollo]

Yes your right River Hamble this morning

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That is all kinds of wrong.

 

[smutchin]

Organs plural?

His shorts are very tight, you know.

 

[Jenkins]

The last time I got funny looks for wearing lycra was at Ipswich Railway station, I was on my way to London so I could ride back to Ipswich.

When I spotted the gawkers I thought to myself that they're really only seeing part of the story; they've probably got no idea about chamois creme...

Yes, but you were applying it in the middle of platform 2 though

 

[Salad Dodger]

Wear what you want and to heck with what other people think.

Personally, I am not the ideal physique for lycra - I would look like the Michelin man - so I have always gone for ordinary t shirt and baggy mountain biker type shorts or Ron Hill trakky bottoms, but with proper cycling padded undershorts for comfort.

 

[mjr]

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

Oneself. Not the sponsors of cycling teams or manufactures of so-called cycling clothing that irritates the skin of a sizeable minority, is like wearing shrink wrap and has pads that take ages to dry if they get wet. Regular looking wicking clothes exist, if you're pedalling that hard that it matters, don't flap around much and best of all don't show off your dick more than a codpiece. Ignore the people trying to pressure you into Lycra. There is no norm or national standard saying you should.

 

[screenman]

Oneself. Not the sponsors of cycling teams or manufactures of so-called cycling clothing that irritates the skin of a sizeable minority, is like wearing shrink wrap and has pads that take ages to dry if they get wet. Regular looking wicking clothes exist, if you're pedalling that hard that it matters, don't flap around much and best of all don't show off your dick more than a codpiece. Ignore the people trying to pressure you into Lycra. There is no norm or national standard saying you should.

To be honest lycra would look a tad odd on being worn by the cyclist in your picture. I for one would also get no pleasure out of that style of bike or position, nice that we all all different.

 

[mjr]

To be honest lycra would look a tad odd on being worn by the cyclist in your picture. I for one would also get no pleasure out of that style of bike or position, nice that we all all different.

That's my daily workhorse, the height of comfort as it swoops along the lanes, but I've N others

 

[Dan B]

Nobody ever says you should wear ordinary everyday clothes if you're going diving. But a full wetsuit is probably not needed in the paddling pool either.

Wear what you want to wear. Try wearing what you think you might like to try wearing. Most of the people you think are staring at you merely happen to have their heads turned in your direction while they're thinking about something else entirely, and of the minority who really are staring, half of them are secretly wishing they could do what you do, and of the minority minority judgmental pricks remaining, most of them aren't going to actually *say* anything