Lycra Hybrid Faux Pas!?

[nuliajuk]

There is another type of bicycle fashion police, what you might call "tweedies". These are people who violently object to lycra in any form, insist that cycling should only be done in regular clothes, with no helmet, and on Dutch type bikes. They sneer about "the myth that cycling is a sport". (Really? So I just imagined all those Thursday nights on the velodrome years ago? Or the weekend stage races?)

[kernowcyclist]

I started cycling on my hybrid in ordinary shorts/teeshirts and gradually went to baggy shorts with clip-in padded liner shorts and a cheapo lycra base layer and jersey. It's only now I have a road bike I've gone to less baggy, better quality lycra, but I still wear the baggies to commute into town. And hubby cycled for a long time on a hybrid, wearing full lycra and no one batted an eyelid.