the color white

[gocard]

I haven't come across this, but a ton of tennis players wear white shorts and I haven't uh, noticed an issue! Maybe since it's such a norm in the sport of tennis that the fabric and design is made a little better to prevent the see-through issue! I can only hope I can avert my eyes if I come across this while cycling. :P

[westtexas]

Marni, this is why I miss riding with you. I cannot wait until I'm up to par again! (and not working)

[nuliajuk]

I haven't come across this, but a ton of tennis players wear white shorts and I haven't uh, noticed an issue! Maybe since it's such a norm in the sport of tennis that the fabric and design is made a little better to prevent the see-through issue! I can only hope I can avert my eyes if I come across this while cycling. :P

Tennis players probably have underwear beneath their shorts. Bike shorts are usually just one layer of lycra and are meant to be worn without underwear. If you've ever made the mistake of buying a white swimsuit (guilty! ) then you know that light coloured lycra becomes virtually transparent when wet.

[murielalex]

I was behind two guys today, both wearing some team kit with white and blue, with the shorts mostly white. It was raining today............

[Biciclista]

thanks Murielalex
now I'm going to have nightmares~!

[marni]

I was behind two guys today, both wearing some team kit with white and blue, with the shorts mostly white. It was raining today............

and have you stopped wishing you could rip the eyeballs out of your head yet?

[climbergirl]

I can think of at least one guy I wouldn't mind seeing in white kit in the rain.... But... in general? Not so much!

I have a pair of lighter blue shorts I wear when it's really really hot in the summer. They stay fairly opaque when wet, show salty sweat stains way less than black, and don't absorb radiant heat from the sun at such an astounding and atrocious rate!