Should I stop wearing lycra?

[Nibor]

My cycling shoes have mesh bits in them,which does help on warm days,but they're crap in the wet. I always carry a pair of overshoes,if i'm on my saddle bag bike.
Every year i think about getting some water proof boots,but every year someone tells me such a thing doesn't exist.

I find waterproof socks excellent with merino liners on cold days.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Yes new last year I now own two one short sleeve and one long sleeve.
And yes it is Morecambe the Lakeland fells over the water rather give it away.

No,it was the granite boulders just behind you that gave it away.

 

[Mugshot]

WTAF? I have no views on whether I like or dislike the unnamed shoes, so you're jumping to conclusions to say that I don't like them. I think this isn't the first time you've misattributed views to me and tried to bully me out of a clothing discussion - you seem to have some worrying fixation.

Actually mjr, you've certainly given me the impression on a number of occasions of being someone that whole heartedly champions cycling provided it's your type of cycling. People that cycle faster than you, that use cycle paths that don't meet your approval, that wear particular kit, that use particular lights and so on have all been met with your vehement disapproval.

 

[mjr]

Actually mjr, you've certainly given me the impression on a number of occasions of being someone that whole heartedly champions cycling provided it's your type of cycling. People that cycle faster than you, that use cycle paths that don't meet your approval, that wear particular kit, that use particular lights and so on have all been met with your vehement disapproval.

I suspect that's because for too long I didn't respond to the repeated misinterpretations of what I actually wrote that had been posted by certain others. Ironically, the main thing that will meet my "vehement disapproval" is people who suggest that their type of cycling is the only valid one, by posting such nonsense as saying that kit like overshoes are "essential" or shoot like that, or by suggesting that utility cycling isn't real cycling.

The lights thing is mainly that I don't like being dazzled, but also I don't like that so many people are unwittingly cycling at night without legal lights.

 

[AndyRM]

Aren't Hoy bikes for children?

Not exclusively.

 

[Deleted member 35268]

The beeb have waded in
"Do cyclists have to be slim to wear Lycra?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41081756

 

[srw]

Amusing Guardian article. The author's description of a team in white shorts is even better than Hoy's: they "tend to look like a row of international clocks above a hotel reception desk."

 

[winjim]

(When we've stopped the humiliation of fat men in sports kit, can we turn our attention to fat women, who are vilified no matter how they dress?)

FTFY

 

[Saluki]

I don't suppose he's about to launch a range of loose fit cycle apparel by any chance.

That was my first thought too. I am such a cynic.

 

[GuyBoden]

Chris Hoy's legs look ridiculous, too many heavy leg presses at the gym. Enormous-hideous-excess.

 

[jefmcg]

I don't suppose he's about to launch a range of loose fit cycle apparel by any chance.

No.

He's got a new column in GQ, and that is what he is selling. Be mildly offensive, enough to generate copy on a quiet bank holiday weekend but not enough to get you death threats, and watch the journos knock out quick reaction pieces and send the clicks towards your article.

And it works. Yesterday I hadn't been aware there was a UK edition of GQ, and now I know there is and that Chris Hoy writes for it.

 

[screenman]

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Chris Hoy's legs look ridiculous, too many heavy leg presses at the gym. Enormous-hideous-excess.

Do you mean, fit for the job they were intended to do.

 

[Tin Pot]

Can't argue with that.

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Probably about time we all stopped fat shaming this guy. It's been going on for years.

 

[Tin Pot]

Sir Chris Hoy: middle-aged men over eight stone should stop wearing Lycra

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/28/sir-chris-hoy-middle-aged-men-should-stop-wearing-lycra-unless/

I am middle aged. My weight is just under 11 stones (68Kg, BMI is just within healthy range). But I love my lycra!

Fair play, I'm switching to tweed. GQ will be proud of me.

 

[Nibor]

Oi! You've nicked my jersey....

Doubt mine would be small enough for you skinny lad lol