Suited up for the TdF!

[rapid cycler]

I'll be wearing them on every ride till the boys reach the Champs-Élysées. Just doing my part!

Not that it's a terribly controversial message, kind of like proclaiming that babies smell nice or puppies are cute—hard to find anyone to take the opposite position. At any rate, they get me a lot of attention (all positive) in LBSs and on the road.

[teigyr]

Pretty bit of bike too.

orbea rider here

[KnottedYet]

I've been wanting a pair of those, or one of the t's or jerseys. Very cool!

Today I've been sporting a cycling cap from Different Spokes San Francisco that I bought at SF Pride a couple weeks ago. It's comfy, and not nearly as annoying as a baseball cap. Not quite TdF related, but cycling related! (I have a yellow ceramic "LiveSTRONG" bowl, but I didn't figure out some way to wear it today to celebrate the prologue. Maybe next year... )

[Tuckervill]

ugh, I don't know how to get over the idea that cycling socks remind me of an old man wearing Bermuda shorts and dress socks. Especially BLACK cycling socks. Just white, super low, socks for me, please.

Nice message, though!

Karen

[rapid cycler]

Pretty bit of bike too.

Mmm, bike porn. I've shown you mine; now show me yours.

I have a yellow ceramic "LiveSTRONG" bowl, but I didn't figure out some way to wear it today to celebrate the prologue.

On a chain, around your neck, like an old-school rapper. And take pics please.

ugh, I don't know how to get over the idea that cycling socks remind me of an old man wearing Bermuda shorts and dress socks. Especially BLACK cycling socks.

Who you callin' old man? Damn, I've already been called "sir" twice today.

[KnottedYet]

I used to get called "sir" all the time when I had spiked hair. (um, yeah... hourglass figure, pink shirt, big dangly earrings = "sir")

Even with my longer hair, I'd probably get called "sir" if I wore a Dopers Suck t-shirt. There's something about being tall and having a big boney face and being interested in bikes that just leads to the assumption that one is male.

Except at my LBS, where they have so many gay and TG and GQ (GenderQueer, not Gentleman's Quarterly) customers that no-one makes any assumptions about anyone. You love bikes, you're cool.

(I got called "sir" at REI bike dept last year. And I had a pink bandana on my hair girl-style! I was so traumatized that I went upstairs to the women's clothing dept and ranted on the first female salesclerk I found. She apologized on behalf of REI. She was much cooler than I was...)

[margo49]

Bye for six hours , girls
Everything is ready - new ear-ring in the ear, chair and pretty cotton blanket on the floor if I want to "lounge" (lizard that I am), fruit to eat, atlas at-the-ready.

Breakfasts-es cooked for the boyz, a load of washing hung and another one in the machine, a batch of cookies for DS#soldier cooling on the rack; I think that earns me the TdF, don't you-all think?

[rapid cycler]

I guess I can hijack my own thread, yeah?

I used to get called "sir" all the time when I had spiked hair. (um, yeah... hourglass figure, pink shirt, big dangly earrings = "sir")

I can't lay claim to pink shirts or dangly earrings, but I do have a set of D-cup knockers that can't by a long shot be mistaken for man tits. Still, a cursory glance at my hair gets me filed in the "sir" column often enough. I guess it's better than "ma'am."

(I got called "sir" at REI bike dept last year. And I had a pink bandana on my hair girl-style! I was so traumatized that I went upstairs to the women's clothing dept and ranted on the first female salesclerk I found. She apologized on behalf of REI. She was much cooler than I was...)

A lesbian recently filed suit against a restaurant that ejected her from its ladies' room for appearing too butch. A customer had gone into hysterics when she saw her in there and complained to the management, at which time a (male) employee went barging in, pounded on her stall door, and physically removed her from the restroom, even after he ascertained she was in fact female. The really disturbing part of this story: The restaurant is in NYC, Greenwich Village to be exact, and the incident happened during gay pride weekend.

[farrellcollie]

AT least you get called "sir" - I often get "son" - and I am almost 50. A few years ago - a man went up to my ex-partner and told her the he thought she and her "son" had a really great relationship. We were flabbergasted (and kind of creeped out). I don't think it had anything to do with our socks.

[Trek420]

I guess I can hijack my own thread, yeah?

Yes

I guess it's better than "ma'am."

::sigh:: I'm called "ma'am" all the time, in person, over the phone .... guess there's no question I'm a gal and an old one

The really disturbing part of this story: The restaurant is in NYC, Greenwich Village to be exact, and the incident happened during gay pride weekend.

OMG, how humiliating for her. I work in customer service, it can be hard to "do the right thing" when faced with someone in hysterics which should have been a curt "So? Pee and get over it or hold it till she's out".

Ever been at an event with:
a) fewer womens rest rooms or stalls
b) more women than men resulting in long lines?

I can't count the number of times where tired of the long line the women folk have "taken over" a mens rest room.

There's usually a polite yelled warning "zip up, we're taking over! "

Never saw any of us thrown out.

Maybe the men-folk are less picky about this.

AT least you get called "sir" - I often get "son" - and I am almost 50. A few years ago - a man went up to my ex-partner and told her the he thought she and her "son" had a really great relationship. We were flabbergasted (and kind of creeped out). I don't think it had anything to do with our socks.

ew, just kinda ew.

People see what they want to see and or the relationship they are familiar with.

Maybe it was the socks. Where are the socks that say "nobody knows that I'm gay"

Sorry for the thread hijack, now if you wish we can get back to our regularly scheduled discussion of socks, doping, and bike porn. That is a really nice photo BTW, I love the glint of sunlight bouncing off the gear and next to the Sidis, nice.

[Tuckervill]

another little rabbit trail. When he was 5, my so had me write on the back of his batting helmet: "Nobody knows I'm Elvis."

K.

[RoadRaven]

Cool sox - didn't know they were about... though not surprised.

Like Tuckervill I prefer the really low under-the-ankle- sox (though mine come in white (training), grey (racing) and black (timetrialling).

LOL the sirs and sons in this thread! Good way to start the semester with a few smiles...

And Tuckervill, a little giggle here about your SOs helmet - am just wondering what I could write on the back of my partner's and sons' helmets and wondering how long before any of them would actually notice!!!

[Trek420]

And they have coffee, coffee cups, jerseys, and the ever feminine pink socks.....

http://doperssuck.typepad.com

[KnottedYet]

::sigh:: I'm called "ma'am" all the time, in person, over the phone .... guess there's no question I'm a gal and an old one

Dear, you are tiny and incredibly cute. (and you have... ummm... substancial bazongas.) There is no way in heck anyone could think you were a man! And you're not "an old" gal.

sheesh!

[Trek420]

sheesh!

Thanks, Dear

- am just wondering what I could write on the back of my partner's and sons' helmets and wondering how long before any of them would actually notice!!!

I now have the sticker from ALC on the back of my helmet that's stamped "gay, San Francisco, unavailable" ;-)