Are your clothes suppose to match your bike?

[KnottedYet]

Nothing matches anything. Heck, even my socks don't match!

[caligirl2]

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!

[jobob]

Thanks everyone for all your input, I am glad to hear that most of you try to coordinate with the bike.

most of us?


My main bike is a mauve/dusty rose and pretty much nothing goes with it. Matters not to me.

[SadieKate]

A response of 4 is not a good statiscal sampling.

I like my clothes to match each other but don't really care about the bike - socks match the jersey. Water bottles match the bike. Bike match the clothes???? Nope.

[Eden]

I dressed my plain jane ti bike up with bar tape that matches my team kit - does that count?? (too much time on my hands mainly......)

Just for the record - I never in the past tried to coordinate with my bike, now I wear team kit and don't have any input on the colors of that.

[Susan126]

My road bike is candy apple red and nothing I own matches it. But I do attempt to at least match my tops with my socks. And of course the basic black biking shorts that go with anything. Actually, I just grab a jersey and off I go. I do try to get a pair of socks to match but if I can't find a pair to match I can cycle without! Now my mountain bike is a greyish silver . . . and anything goes with riding it. It's going to get pretty dang muddy and dirty anyway so who cares? I do own a lot of cycling clothes. DH always pokes fun at me about it too. Especially when I say something like this, "I can't find a pair of socks to match my top!" And he replies, "You've got to be kidding! You own a cycling clothes store in those drawers!" And then I'll grab a pair of purple, orange, and green socks to wear with my blue, pink, and white jersey!

[salsabike]

Nothing matches anything. Heck, even my socks don't match!

Knot, you made my day. I bet the bike works just as well if the clothes don't match...

[light_sabe_r]

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.

[Bad JuJu]

I dress to be comfortable and visible. If something ends up matching, it's purely by chance.

[KSH]

I dress to be comfortable and visible. If something ends up matching, it's purely by chance.

What she said.

[lauraelmore1033]

Nothing matches anything. Heck, even my socks don't match!

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...

[Mimosa]

That's why I bought a white bike and helmet. It goes with almost every colour . 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.

[Brandi]

Nothing matches anything. Heck, even my socks don't match!

Yea what she said!

[MomOnBike]

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.

[DeniseGoldberg]

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'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.

I suspect that no one will even notice.

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