Knickers are to cycling bottoms what capris are to pants. In fact, when I was new, I went into the bike shop and asked for capris, and the guys looked at me like I was speaking Russian, and said, "Oh, you want knickers."

Until then, I knew knickers as those tweed short pants paper-boys would wear in black and white movies. Not so much in the cycling world.

You will not look like a Sumo wrestler, I promise. You will look like a die hard, because everyone else will be huddled up in their snuggies, while you're still riding.