So I'm not cycling in ordinary street clothes/chic

[OakLeaf]

Wow, I'd heard that a lot w/r/t motorcycle helmets, but never about bicycles before. I wish I knew who's even driving that myth...

[shootingstar]

lph: So for promotional purposes - yeah, I'd make an effort to show that we don't all look like aliens, some of us even look like the normal people next door

The only thing I would do is to wear a skort or walking shorts to attend a social function with people who themselves will dress casual nice or just casual but aren't cyclists. I don't go out of my way too much if it's too much effort for me to hunt around in my wardrobe beyond 5 min.

More about this Oak, on anti-helmet for cycling....'cause this interesting times..

For now, on our blog, I posted this for the owner (which is dearie):

http://thirdwavecyclingblog.wordpres...er-to-cycling/

Note: He is a conference director for Velo-city 2012 cycling conference in Vancouver.

[oz rider]

For now, on our blog, I posted this for the owner (which is dearie):

http://thirdwavecyclingblog.wordpres...er-to-cycling/

The guy doing his masters might want to have a look at this recent research (link at bottom of page, 7MB). It wasn't summarised very usefully imho, but it does bring together in one place some of the psych research (among other things). IIRC (don't have time to review right now), it made no difference to the focus groups whether cyclists were in Lycra or civvies; we are an out-group, with all the issues that flow from that. I hope he gets some useful research done on the subject; we really should be way past personal hypotheses and anecdotes by now.

[JennK13]

The guy doing his masters might want to have a look at this recent research (link at bottom of page, 7MB).

Interesting article....this topic and the new one solely about helmets are engaging some really great discussions. I'm stuck on a topic for an english paper and I think one of these may lead to something....please continue the friendly and challenging dialogues!