In other words, my bike is yellow and black. Should I try to at least wear coordinating accessories (i.e. helmet, gloves, shoes....)??
What is the cycling "Rule Of Thumb"?
Thanks:rolleyes:
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In other words, my bike is yellow and black. Should I try to at least wear coordinating accessories (i.e. helmet, gloves, shoes....)??
What is the cycling "Rule Of Thumb"?
Thanks:rolleyes:
Well, it's a little too cold for just a helmet.
She said gloves and shoes too. That's one approach to avoiding the dreaded biker tans!:p
But trying to attach cleats to my feets . . . :eek:
I refuse to wear advertising (which is most jerseys) and I don't wear fluroescent colours unless I'm in low light or at night - kind of limiting when it comes to clothes.
My bike is blue, silver and black so I tend to keep to black knicks and my other gear either blue, grey, white or pink. I like to match or co-ordinate.
Actually just 30 mins ago bought some new Pearl Izumi shoes in blue!
Most cyclists I see around either dress to match the bike or dress in an outfit that co-ordinates jersey, knicks, socks, gloves etc but not with the bike.
and some of us revel in flourescent colors, because they are VISIBLE!
if you can match your bike sometime, that's cool. I don't match my bike except when i wear my raincoat (hmm, that's 8 months out of the year)
:D
Heck yes... where possible...
But dayam... only a few of my tops do...
Nothing matches anything. Heck, even my socks don't match! :D
:D Thanks everyone for all your input, I am glad to hear that most of you try to coordinate with the bike.
I just had to ask!;)
Knot, you made my day. I bet the bike works just as well if the clothes don't match...Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
I've only JUST bought a pink jersey and I've had my pink bike for a few months. Too bad my shoes are light metallic blue.
Matching=good
Not matching=Just as good.
I dress to be comfortable and visible. If something ends up matching, it's purely by chance.:D
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Originally Posted by Minty
But if you wear a jersey that has billboards all over it, EVERYTHING matches! :)
Our company wouldn't let us put their logo on our company team. But we could plaster just about every drug we produce. I love being nothing but a walking billboard. OTOH, on big organized rides, it's nice to look like a group. Even if that means wearing a giant ad for Levitra on my back.
Wear whatever colors you like and enjoy the ride. Why worry about whether or not you match, as long as your comfortable?
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Originally Posted by Velobambina
What she said!
My bike is naked titanium. If I dressed to match the bike I'd be wearing grey all the time.....heck, if I rode in San Francisco, I'd disappear into the fog! My favorite color is blue and I tend to buy lots of stuff in blue, though I also have neon green & reds & yellows too (can you tell I'm a jersey freak?). And I don't mind wearing ads as long as the jersey is from an event I've participated in or from the team my son rides with (insert proud mom grin here). Oh, and my shoes are green....so do I match? heck no - but riding is fun anyway.
I buy my shorts for the insert, and jerseys for the sale price and the size of back pockets.
Heck my favorite jersey matches the yellow stripes on my stelvio tires, so I just conradicted myself.
good lord YES.... match or coordinate! (never wear orange on a red bike!)
now if you have a black bike.... you are lucky... you can wear sleek, sexy black... or any other color! but if you have a blue bike.... the majority of your wardrobe and accessories must be blue!!!!! (and when you change bikes.... you must change wardrobe and accessories!!!!)
Lately, I've been looking all coordinated, but that's just because my jacket happens to match my bike and I wear it every ride. Actually, I have a LOT of matching clothing now. Blue is my favorite color so I've always bought a lot of blue clothing. Then I ended up with a blue and white bike, so now I match a lot more than I used to!
I admit that I don't like to clash...but I also don't feel that I *have* to match. Most of my accessories are either black or silver, so they go with anything. And all my shorts/bottoms are black as well, so really, the only thing I'm 'matching' is jersey and socks. :)
I was doing great for a while. My first love was a black and pink bike, which I accessorized completely. Bought as much pink stuff as possible. Next bike was purple. Still good. Next bike, celeste. Still okay in a Miami Vice kind of way. Blue bike. Still good. Pink and blue bike, good, pink/purpley bike, still all good.
Problem is I joined a club whose colors are blue and orange. ORANGE! You know how awful all my pink stuff and all my pink gear looks in an ORANGE kit? Trust me - it's bad. Really bad.
oh pedal wench! i feel your pain!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you know.... i took clothes (both future and current) into consideration when i changed my mind from a pink and black mountain bike to the "goes with everything and especially with pink accessories" grey! i already had a cute red oakly mtb outfit.... now if i bought a PINK mtb and pink helmet... i woudn't be able to wear it anymore!!! that made me sad.... i know.... i'm pathetic................. (i do wear my orange *gasp* and blue bikejournal jersey on occasion... although it looked MUCH better with my blue dolce than with my RED ruby!) just don't tell the fashion police!!!!!!!
I match, to a degree. Bike is black and blue. I like black (duh) and blue. Everything falls into place. ;) ;) :D
When I bought my first bike I bought a dark red helmet to go with it. I ended up with yellow jerseys for a while because I liked them to coordinate with my favorite shorts that had a yellow panel. I've since ditched the shorts for all black shorts (anything goes with them) and I now ride a silver and black bike. I wear whatever jerseys catch my eye. When it's time for a new helmet I might consider something in silver/black/grey hues.
I wish...
I just bought myself a Giant OCR3 in November. Beautiful black and blue bike. I would love to find a cycling shirt to match (Giant on the front).
But yes, the law is, if your a pro, you should match ha!ha!ha!
Just joking. I am guilty in trying to match, I have red bike shoes so my shirts pretty much all have red on them.::rolleyes: :D
My Giant is black but is trimmed out in a little orange and white. At first I paid no attention to the orange. I even wore pink. But now I have slowly morphed into an orange wearing nut.
Kimmyt, you're not SERIOUS :eek: !Quote:
Originally Posted by Kimmyt
Really?
By the way, I am also lucky if my socks match.
East Hill
What she said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bad JuJu
up till now, I was the only person I knew that didn't give a rip about whether his/her socks matched or not. 's not very...um...girly. Nice to know there is another one out there...Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
That's why I bought a white bike and helmet. It goes with almost every colour :D . When training I do not care about coordinating but when in competition then I do want to watch if everything matches. Luckely the club I (probably) am going to join has a full line of matching team clothing, from shorts and shirts to arm/leg warmers, gloves, jackets, vests, timetrail suits, caps ... you name it. So I can get really get good matching stuff (if I want). And the white bike (and white helmet) coordinates well with the blue/white team clothing. :p
:D I'm afraid I am totally serious!Quote:
Originally Posted by East Hill
I figure between the ad and me walking around clad in lycra, we'll succeed yet in getting those suffering from ED up and at 'em!! :p
Uh, I don't really think about color coordinating my bike and clothes. I am pretty "fashion conscious," but really. My bike is mostly black, with a little red on it. But my first road bike was yellow and the second one was carbon colored... I buy my jerseys for the style and print. No ads, please. I like bright colors on top. I don't want elastic on the bottom either. I have a small waist and hips that are a bit bigger. Elastic on the bottom just rides up to my waist, unless I get a bigger sized jersey and then it's too big on the top. Not too many comapnies make x-smalls, so all of my jerseys are Terrys. My husband bought me a Voler jersey in xs through a discount program at his work. I spend the whole time pulling it down, even though it sort of fits. It's going in the trash...
I always wear black shorts. I bought one pair of blue, but they split when I was on tour in Europe and I sewed them up, but the place where it was patched rubs my skin, so those went out too. I have a few socks that match well with my jerseys, but they were not bought for that reason. I just like cool socks.
I have one olive green helmet that i wear for cold weather riding and for mtb and a bright blue helmet. Neither match anything. My mtb is brown and I seriously do not match anything with that!
I don't match anything either, but that's not to say I'll wear or ride any colour. My bike, as I like to point out to people frequently, is a beautiful bright strong red. Black shorts or tights and black helmet, black and grey jacket, jerseys that are mostly muted green or blue-grey, or... black.
I own one single light-coloured sleeveless top, that for some obscure and magic reason makes me look like I have a waist.. ;)
And I have one neon green sleeveless, almost never used, which I bought after an autumn spent playing Tomb Raider, as I fancied it made me look a bit like Lara Croft. It doesn't. :p
The flat chest *might* have something to do with it.
Robyn--Have you tried Voler's club cut tops for ladies, as those have no elastic at the bottom? I got this one:Quote:
Originally Posted by Robyn Maislin
http://www.velowear.com/ProductDetai...78%20LEM%20XSM
I love how it fits and feels (fabric, nice colors, etc.). Best of all, IT'S ON SALE!!!
I am absolutely not a fan of big logos, and I really don't make any effort to matchy-match either my bikes (all different colors) or DH when we ride tandem. What JuJu said! Between us DH and I have a lot of bike clothes, and he ends up doing the laundry more than I do nowadays. It's just been more practical for me to go with clothes and accessories in colors I like (black and blue) that are different from what he likes (red and yellow) so he can better tell 'em apart in the laundry. I have to mark my tights and some shorts with a Sharpie, however, 'cause they're too similar in size or configuration to his.
from an ex ball player. Those who come to the court with the latest and most expensive, matching outfit, and shoes, headband, LOL....
Usually have no game, if that is a hint.
I wear what I found on sale. Trying to get skills not looks..
I thought I didn't care how the clothes looked, but your remark about orange reminded me that I bought an orange hoodie thingie which I haven't mustered up the courage to wear because, well, because it's butt-ugly orange:eek: ! And now I have a red bike, so I guess I'll never wear it!:oQuote:
Originally Posted by caligurl
My husband used to say that about running. By your standard, I might pass for sombody that actually knew what she was doing(?) rather than a hopeless noob...Quote:
Originally Posted by logdiva32
Thanks, Velo, I looked at that jersey and it definitely would fit; it's the same cut that I like in the Terry jerseys. My husband didn't have any choice in jersey cut when he bought it. Voler made up jereys with his company logo (of course no women's cut) and then they worked out a deal to buy other ones.
I think my cycling attire looks good, but not outrageously matched. So, I guess I qualify to say that I sort of look like i know what I'm doing. Sometimes I think people think I'm a weird poseur with my Kuota bike, but it fits and I like the way it rides. People constantly ask me if I do triathalons because of this bike. I guess Kuota is heavy into tri bikes, but I don't have aero bars on it, so I'm not sure why people ask me this. They wouldn't ask if they knew me.... can barely swim and I hate running!
Yea what she said!Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
Mostly my stuff matches, but that's just because I'm lazy and buy everything in blue, bikes, helmet, duds, socks, even my shoes are a greyey-blue. I'm a bit tired of blue, but when I go to the store...
This is why the SS exchange is so nice for me. I get actual colors in socks! Pink, for example, which I would never buy for myself, but which I kind of enjoy wearing.
I've been known to head out with mis-matched socks, I figure that if I keep spinning, nobody will be able to tell the two different blue socks apart. :rolleyes:
You gals who dress to match your bikes are blowing my mind! At first I thought that this was a joke, but as I read on it became clear that it's no joke. That's something that I've never considered, not going to happen. Ah, I think this is just more proof that we need different people, different outlooks, to make an interesting world.
I suspect that no one will even notice.Quote:
Originally Posted by MomOnBike
One day in late November I decided to see if anyone would notice if I wore two different colored shoes to work. (Yup, you're right, I can be a little nutty sometimes.) Two shoes, same style, one blue, one green (OK, OK, maybe the colors were too similar.) My odd feet weren't noticed until very late in the day - and the person who noticed assumed that my mismatched shoes were an accident. When he noticed I couldn't contain my laughter anymore... The story of my mismatched feet along with a photo is in my blog if you're interested. It's at http://denisegoldberg.blogspot.com/2...two-shoes.html.
--- Denise