Bike shorts, needing a little more "coverage"

[jessmarimba]

For those of you that said you wear more than one pair of shorts or something over the shorts

It depends on why I'm riding and who I'm around. I'm perfectly comfortable with how I look in bike shorts, but that doesn't mean everyone at the grocery store needs to see me wearing them. Or my work, for that matter. Technically, we're forbidden in the employee handbook from wearing tight fitting athletic clothing (i.e. bike clothing) in the office. And sometimes I get tired of catcalls from men in my neighborhood (I can't even run here anymore). So yourself. Wearing less revealing clothing doesn't prevent people from getting better or going faster.

[lph]

I will happily wear tightfitting lycra in all it's multicolour glory riding to work, past my co-workers up in my office, in stores, at the hairdressers, to a dr.s appointment, to my son(poor guy)'s school to see the teacher, or to the movies... Most times I even forget to take my helmet off.

But: come vacation time and we head for someplace laid back, and bring our bikes, I feel selfconscious as all get-out in lycra. I always bring it, but end up wearing it under baggy pants, with a plain wool top. Something about not wanting to look exercise-y and stressed citygirl-like...