bicycle culture

[KnottedYet]

several years ago we had a GOLD BIKE SCHEME in town,council sprayed bikes gold,left them in special bike parks,the idea the general public could borrow one,and return it to any of these bike parks.


well,lo n behold they were are nicked!aint rocket science is it!!!!plonkers.

Gold bike!?!? Flossie, RUN!!

(my bike is gold)

[pooks]

Thanks for all the answers! I don't worry about my road shorts (maybe I should, ahem) but he never wears shorts of any kind so he's more self-conscious about it. I never knew why until recently -- one of his friends in high school was a football player with huge muscled thighs, and my husband had what he considered to be "skinny" legs and so was self-conscious. He actually has beautifully shaped legs - but old baggage is hard to discard, sometimes!

It's so cool this morning I think I'll wear my jeans to Starbucks.

Oh yeah, re: the gold bike scheme. Great idea! Well, except for the "people steal bikes" part!

[cherinyc]

For me, it's not the leg part of the bike shorts that I am selfconscious about, it's the way the chamois part lays in the buttocks area. If my butt in the shorts just looked like, my butt in the shorts - well I would be greatful for the spandex holding everything in a defined shape.
BUT (no pun intended) it's the diaper effect of the chamois in my most comfy shorts that I hate.

[pooks]

I think I'm too dorky to care about the diaper butt. Because first I had to get over the idea of wearing spandex without a big loose t-shirt to cover up my sins, and I started feeling all biker-chick tough. Dudes, this is what we wear; deal with it.

And I thought the diaper butt was just part of the look.

By the time I started reading about people who hated that look and were looking for different styles of chamois, I'd already taken on that "deal with it" mantle and I don't even think about that part. (Of course, I'm also not looking at that part, if ya know what I mean.)