BV, try riding 100km+ in street clothes at a 25kph+ average. Then you'll understand lycra. Watch the Tour de France in July, and you'll get an idea of how the clothing has evolved for the purpose.
Totally agree. But these are the guys/gals who look like they could ride that far.
I used to think there was a pose element in it too, and I suppose if anyone is going to do pose, it is the same loud metro Melbournite galahs that come to Noosa and Gold Coast for hols, telling all in earshot how things are better in Melbourne.
Totally agree again. But isn't Melb better anyhoo?
But after seeing a lot of fat guys take up cycling and get over depression and obesity, I ain't going to slam them for having a go. It's the best place for them to be. One of the guys who rides with us is an ex Nam F111 pilot and wing commander. Cycling has helped him manage PTSD and get a new lease on life. He's ripped the weight off and looks 15 years younger.
To those few; I say fantastic achievement.
There's posers in every walk of life, I'd rather people be posing doing something social and healthy, than vice versa. If you want to vent against posers, try street car hoon idiots.
I do all the time. We have a million of the fools down our way in Rosebud. Would love to take their cars off them and make them watch the thing be crushed
I know there's arrogant wnkers who ride 2 and 3 abreast ALL the time. But when you've had one too many idiots try and side swipe you or run you off the road, you start to care more about staying out a wheel chair than what some neanderthal cares, who wants to catch up with his mates for a beer 30 seconds earlier.
Not sure what this one means
Maybe we don't have the galahs you have down there. But I know rarely is a peloton going to hold me up more than 60 seconds. it's something I can live with.
I've not complained about the hold-up factor so far. I know a few people who live near Beach rd around Beaumaris area who do though.