Hell hath no fury...

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  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    Teehee, twice I've been apologised to today by male posters in this thread :D

    My wry amusement at everything isn't coming through obviously - imagine most of my posts are typed with an impish grin and you'll have it about right!

    Back on topic - mm it is frustrating the lack of variety in ladies gear. I'm still looking for the ideal slightly-baggy short-shorts to go over my lycra. Ah well!
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    i think the problem is cycling is a fairly male sport, in my bike club there are very few women if i go for a few loops of RP i see lots of blokes in lycra not many woman same if if you stop at the cafe, same goes with commuting lyra = bloke almost always. this does mean it's self fulling proficey as who is going to buy from a shop if they don't have much you can buy?
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    sarajoy wrote:
    mm it is frustrating the lack of variety in ladies gear. I'm still looking for the ideal slightly-baggy short-shorts to go over my lycra. Ah well!

    lost_in_thought wrote:
    It is pretty bloomin' woeful really. I get all excited when the wiggle newsletter comes my way with talk of clothing bargains, and there's naught but something pink for us ladies.

    And we're not used to the lack of variety!

    There is a perfectly sensible reason for the lack of choice around female cycle clothing (particularly with regards to baggy), and it is this:
    Kieran_Burns wrote:

    On the way home tonight I've just swung onto a cycle path and 100 yards in front of me someone else swung on from a side path.

    I'm going a fair bit quicker and very soon catch up.

    Except.

    She's in lycra shorts and has just got the cutest.... :shock:

    SCR be damned at this point. I was hooked :?

    Decency forced me to go past but... but....

    :D
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    @jash :lol:

    But there's also a distinct lack of lycra! Are we meant to cycle in the buff?

    On reflection, don't answer that. I don't want a repeat of the 'don't scroll right' incident...
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  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    I've found that unless I wear mens cycle shorts then the womens ones seem to be designed as flippin hipsters and you end up with builders arse while cycling.

    with my butt that isn't a nice sight!
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    @jash :lol:

    But there's also a distinct lack of lycra! Are we meant to cycle in the buff?

    Yes.

    Warning - not work safe. Note that I'm linking here, not posting the image...

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/World_naked_bike_ride_2.jpg

    :o
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    NGale wrote:
    I've found that unless I wear mens cycle shorts then the womens ones seem to be designed as flippin hipsters and you end up with builders ars* while cycling.

    with my butt that isn't a nice sight!

    I popped over to Clapham last night to see some mates (on the bike of course). Got stuck behind a bloke on a roadie who was sporting a rather skimpy t-shirt and short, short 80's style football shorts. Everytime he pedalled a rather large portion of his bare ar$e would reveal itself. I nearly lost my dinner. Suffice to say he was passed in short order.

    Not pleasant.
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    James I thought you were better than that :roll:
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    linsen wrote:
    James I thought you were better than that :roll:

    You were sadly mistaken then! :shock:

    No, I am better, honest. I'm just in a cheeky mood this morning.
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Some of those people resemble the people in the 'don't scroll right' photo... things I cannot unsee... :shock:
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  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Some of those people resemble the people in the 'don't scroll right' photo... things I cannot unsee... :shock:

    :lol::lol::lol:

    Hmm I try to keep those things in a box marked "do not open", unfortunately they come out and haunt me regularly....
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    to be fair, I did warn you.

    Go to google images, turn off the safe sear function and type "naked bike ride"

    Prepare to be disgusted.

    Why is it that naturists are never attractive? One of life's cruel jokes I suppose.
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    hmm (resists the urge to post link found when googling "attractive naturists")
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    linsen wrote:
    hmm (resists the urge to post link found when googling "attractive naturists")

    :lol::lol:

    Might set of the IT department's 'inappropriate content' alerts...
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    linsen wrote:
    hmm (resists the urge to post link found when googling "attractive naturists")

    Oh dear God. :shock:

    Pop ups every where, HELP, HEEELLLLPPPPPP, my screen has been consumed by rather revealing pop ups. Thank god no one sits behind me.

    Damn you Linsen! :o
  • linsen
    linsen Posts: 1,959
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    linsen wrote:
    hmm (resists the urge to post link found when googling "attractive naturists")

    :lol::lol:

    Might set of the IT department's 'inappropriate content' alerts...

    Or make me look like I am more than a bit interested in girls........
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  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    Thankfully the one pair of proper cycling shorts I have, come up quite high :) (SPEG ones I believe, from cycle-clothing.co.uk)

    I left the house without putting my usual sport shorts over the top of the lycra ones today. I felt both exposed and liberated in equal measure! But then I had a big baggy long sleeve T shirt on my top half today (my long sleeve jersey was still drying out the wash), so I wasn't all-over skin-tight thankfully. Not sure I'd have coped!

    Still, it was better than forgetting to add my proper bra over the little crop-top I wear underneath it for cycling comfort. That was an, uh, 'loose' feeling. REALLY must go get fitted for a sports bra...

    ...Oh! While I was having tech problems, this thread went rather off-track.

    For the boys - naturism.. cycling... surely not, er, safe?
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    jashburnham wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    @jash :lol:

    But there's also a distinct lack of lycra! Are we meant to cycle in the buff?

    Yes.

    Warning - not work safe. Note that I'm linking here, not posting the image...

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/World_naked_bike_ride_2.jpg

    :o

    Yep another good reason to never buy a bike from a hippy :shock:
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    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    sarajoy wrote:

    For the boys - naturism.. cycling... surely not, er, safe?

    I wouldn't thinks so. Especially if you have a saddle like this:

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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    I heart that saddle although I'd need the slightly larger version to accommodate the twins :wink:
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • NGale
    NGale Posts: 1,866
    jashburnham wrote:
    NGale wrote:
    I've found that unless I wear mens cycle shorts then the womens ones seem to be designed as flippin hipsters and you end up with builders ars* while cycling.

    with my butt that isn't a nice sight!

    I popped over to Clapham last night to see some mates (on the bike of course). Got stuck behind a bloke on a roadie who was sporting a rather skimpy t-shirt and short, short 80's style football shorts. Everytime he pedalled a rather large portion of his bare ar$e would reveal itself. I nearly lost my dinner. Suffice to say he was passed in short order.

    Not pleasant.

    see I choose not to inflict that on the public at large. thus the baggy man shorts which actually sit on the waist.
    Officers don't run, it's undignified and panics the men
  • Christophe3967
    Christophe3967 Posts: 1,200
    itboffin wrote:
    I heart that saddle although I'd need the slightly larger version to accommodate the twins :wink:

    +1

    143s for me though :oops: . I thought you were too tough for gel JB?
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    Bike 2
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    New Bike
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  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    sarajoy wrote:
    Thankfully the one pair of proper cycling shorts I have, come up quite high :) (SPEG ones I believe, from cycle-clothing.co.uk)

    I left the house without putting my usual sport shorts over the top of the lycra ones today. I felt both exposed and liberated in equal measure! But then I had a big baggy long sleeve T shirt on my top half today (my long sleeve jersey was still drying out the wash), so I wasn't all-over skin-tight thankfully. Not sure I'd have coped!

    Still, it was better than forgetting to add my proper bra over the little crop-top I wear underneath it for cycling comfort. That was an, uh, 'loose' feeling. REALLY must go get fitted for a sports bra...

    ...Oh! While I was having tech problems, this thread went rather off-track.

    For the boys - naturism.. cycling... surely not, er, safe?

    my wife, (another sara) says in summer with the low tops for some reason traffic is far keener to let her out can't think why ;-)
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    roger merriman wrote:
    my wife, (another sara) says in summer with the low tops for some reason traffic is far keener to let her out can't think why ;-)

    Cool name :D

    Hee, well, I guess drops should be useful for something... "Are you /sure/ you don't want to let me out, mister?"
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  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    sarajoy wrote:
    Back on topic - mm it is frustrating the lack of variety in ladies gear. I'm still looking for the ideal slightly-baggy short-shorts to go over my lycra. Ah well!

    On topic 8)

    Endura Humvees are available in a womens fit in short and three-quarter length.

    I have both - in mens fit, obviously, (and the longs as well) and they are very good. The short version come with a lycra / chamois liner that clips in and fits the other versions, but a regular lycra short works fine as a liner. I prefer the 3/4 version over the others.
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    I meant short-shorts!

    http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=short+shorts

    Enjoy ;)
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    roger merriman wrote:
    my wife, (another sara) says in summer with the low tops for some reason traffic is far keener to let her out can't think why ;-)

    I've made the error a few times of not realising that the difference in viewing angle between standing up and looking in a mirror versus cycling along means that I'm a tad more exposed that I think!

    WVM don't seem to keen to kill me on those occasions...
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  • alfablue
    alfablue Posts: 8,497
    ahem :lol:

    can't help you in that department I'm afraid, but would be interested in seeing how your search turns out :wink:
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    roger merriman wrote:
    my wife, (another sara) says in summer with the low tops for some reason traffic is far keener to let her out can't think why ;-)

    I've made the error a few times of not realising that the difference in viewing angle between standing up and looking in a mirror versus cycling along means that I'm a tad more exposed that I think!

    WVM don't seem to keen to kill me on those occasions...

    riminds me of old friend of mine who getting ready for a party bends forward and asks can you see my face....
  • Bassjunkieuk
    Bassjunkieuk Posts: 4,232
    sarajoy wrote:
    I meant short-shorts!

    http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=short+shorts

    Enjoy ;)

    :shock: Thankfully it's quite at the office at the moment and I'm on an un-monitored ADSL line.........I also realized when I got to the bottom of the page that safe search is disabled, all I can say is that she didn't appear to be wearing short shorts but her top was cut rather low :lol:
    Those kinda shorts bring back many happy memories of when I used to run for my local club and attending some of the few mixed sex events, such happy days in the sun :-D
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