funny sights on rides

[ChainsOflove]

I was riding yesterday in Boston area, it was about 55 degrees. This super roadie geek rides up at a crosswalk. He was wearing a TINY super thin tri-athlete skinsuit. He must have been freezing.

But he also had on black armwarmers. With the sleeveless tri-suit and the black arm warmers, it looked for all the world like he had on an evening dress with long black gloves!

Ha!

[jobob]

welllll ..... in the "glass houses and stones" scheme of things .... just imagine what non-cyclists say about those of us who wear spandex cycling shorts ...

" hey honey - lookit that lady over there in the skimpy back shorts with the diaper - doesn't she know how dumb she looks ???? "

just sayin' ... ;)

[jobob]

But that said I gotta agree arm warmers with a sleevless tank is kind of an odd look. :D

But it's used to great effect on costume rides, and rides like the Cinderella where many of the participants dress for the occasion. There was a group of women who called themselves the Martini Chix who wore black tank tops with shiny silver armwarmers. Cha-cha-cha !

http://homepage.mac.com/michaelmaloney/2004_cinderella/PhotoAlbum31.html

[ChainsOflove]

this guy was just kinda funny because he was obviously a VERY serious roadie. The expression on his face was as severe as his carbon bike.

But I got nothin against it

[Veronica]

I saw a tarantula last week, crossing the trail in front of us. Thom guesses he was about 4 inches across.

V.

[snapdragen]

Arrgh. Wish we could post pictures directly, I've got a really cool tarantula picture from last year's fall Academy Grad ride. She was in the middle of the road, I was afraid she'd get run over, so I kinda nudged her with a stick. She actually reared up at me!! I could almost hear her saying "Don't mess with me!!!"

I have been known to wear arm warmers with a sleeveless jersey, but then I also hang out with a bunch of Queens..........:p

[MightyMitre]

Was out mountain biking today and it was chilly. We were all wearing long legs, thermal longsleeve jersey's and windproof tops and we ran into 2 guys who were asking directions.

The one guy looked pretty well wrapped up but the other guy was wearing - bagging cotton t-shirt, cotton shorts and get this... open toed sandles and bare feet!. Brrrrrrrr.:eek: He must have been absolutely freezing!!!

We'd been riding hard for about 2 hours and could still feel the wind chill, so the only thing we could think of was either he's forgotten it was now autumn or he was thermo-nuclea heated! Gave us a chuckle anyway...:p

[jobob]

Maybe he had a plutonium frame?

- Jo, duckin' & runnin'

[CorsairMac]

ROFL - well - I'm one of those people. I wear arm warmers with sleeveless jerseys. The guy at my LBS said he thought it looked "sexy". (OK - made me rethink That look for a minute! :p ) Anyway - it can be chilly in the mornings in the mountains here but blistering in the afternoons hence - armwarmers for the forearms and biceps, sleeveless for the ride home. I never thought of the evening dress look. Might need to go home and put "sparklies" on my arm warmers now!

[pedaddler]

... that must be what all the pointing and giggling is about... geez... i thought they were admiring my bike.