weird boyfriends

[Cali Sunshine]

alright just today my boyfriend was over watching TV... i had just got back from a 2 hour ride. showered and changed. alright so eventually he says he's behind schedule on riding and wants to ride but doesn't feel like going back to his house to get his bike. i told him he can use mine. fine. then he asks if i had any cycling shorts he could borrow. i told him no i don't have any extras. he points to the wall to some bike shorts hanging on a hatrack says "what about those?" i told him "i just came back from riding in those." he just said "whatever that'll do" and goes in the bathroom and changes out of his jeans. so basically he left the house and went riding.

i mean i just got back riding in these and they're sweaty, damp and don't smell too great and he's wearing them. i mean do men have any type of ethics when it comes to hygeine or what? to me that's disgusting. i know i would never wear anyone's used shorts. or is this one of those "he loves me" type things where a close relative or spouse will eat off your plate and so forth... just weird

[Bikingmomof3]

I have been trying to figure out how to put this. That is just gross. I could not think of another way to phrase it. As long as neither of you minds no harm, no foul.

[xeney]

I smell a troll.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

OK, after reading your slew of posts today, I have to say it's really obvious you are the same guy from last month who got thrown off after starting the lame peeing thread.

[SadieKate]

What? There are some posts I am sooo glad I miss.

Funny, how many PMs I have received lately about troll stink.

[Cali Sunshine]

*sigh* it's amazing what people accuse you of these days.

perhaps people here don't like personal accounts but i'm just sharing with the board things that occur that revolve around biking and interest me. i'm a very outspoken person and i'm sorry if that offends people. i know i have not attacked anyone here but i do speak my mind as objectively as possible and simply report on things i see and would just like to share these experiences with others.

[chickwhorips]

What? There are some posts I am sooo glad I miss.

Funny, how many PMs I have received lately about troll stink.

don't worry i missed that whole episode also. from what i hear, its a good thing.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

*sigh* it's amazing what people accuse you of these days.

perhaps people here don't like personal accounts but i'm just sharing with the board things that occur that revolve around biking and interest me. i'm a very outspoken person and i'm sorry if that offends people. i know i have not attacked anyone here but i do speak my mind as objectively as possible and simply report on things i see and would just like to share these experiences with others.

Yeah right. And I'm Mother Teresa.

[Dianyla]

Imagine, what are the odds that a couple could exist where both the woman and the man are seriously into long-distance cycling and they wear the same size shorts and they are so anatomically similar that they'd be equally comfortable borrowing eachothers bikes for multi-hour long distance rides?

I find this statistical improbability about twice as ridiculous as the thought of some imposter with a cycling garments/shorts fetish thinking that we're really that stupid.

And seriously, who hangs their shorts on the hatrack?

Have a lovely day.

[Bluetree]

No problem Cali, it's easy enough to prove you're for real: go for a ride with me and my friends.

We can meet at El Porto, since I pass it on my way to Marina Del Rey a couple times a week. I would love to ride with a 20-something gal on an Iron Horse mountain bike. The one who can beat all the "proffessional looking in-shape guys with expensive bikes and spandex shorts and sporty helments and all that other stuff."

If what you say is true, I'm sure you can give my Ironman pals with their expensive bikes and sporty helments a great workout!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Hah!!!!! Too good!!!

[xeney]

Imagine, what are the odds that a couple could exist where both the woman and the man are seriously into long-distance cycling and they wear the same size shorts and they are so anatomically similar that they'd be equally comfortable borrowing eachothers bikes for multi-hour long distance rides?

Oh, my husband and I could wear each other's shorts. He's given me shorts before where he didn't like the chamois, and while he wouldn't borrow mine because I'd kill him, he bought his last pair based on a pair that I had. (He bought the men's version, but they were nearly identical.) The differences between men's and women's shorts are not that dramatic, I've found. If all of mine were dirty and he had a clean pair, I am pretty sure I could ride in them and never notice the difference.

But he's the one who told me about the used bike short ebay ads and the particular fetish for dirty bike shorts, so I think he'd think this was a troll, too!

[spokewench]

Yep, Cali, I think you're going to have to bite the bullet and go riding with some TE gals. There's absolutely no way you beat a bunch of in shape guys on the road on your mountain bike! I've been riding with the guys for a long time and that is just darn near impossible unless you are Juli Furtado or something!

[kiwi girl]

decided to delete my post myself

[7rider]

Oh, my husband and I could wear each other's shorts. He's given me shorts before where he didn't like the chamois, and while he wouldn't borrow mine because I'd kill him, he bought his last pair based on a pair that I had. (He bought the men's version, but they were nearly identical.) The differences between men's and women's shorts are not that dramatic, I've found. If all of mine were dirty and he had a clean pair, I am pretty sure I could ride in them and never notice the difference.

But he's the one who told me about the used bike short ebay ads and the particular fetish for dirty bike shorts, so I think he'd think this was a troll, too!

My DH and I, too, can wear the same stuff. We generally don't (we have borrowed each other's no-chamois tights, however, when other stuff was in the laundry), and I'm making a concerted effort to get more "girly" jerseys, so...well, he wouldn't be wearing those.