short shorts?

itboffin
itboffin Posts: 20,064
edited May 2011 in Commuting chat
Acceptable cyclewear for men I do not thinok so, stop it!
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.
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  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    itboffin wrote:
    Acceptable cyclewear for men I do not thinok so, stop it!

    How short are you talking about? Rugby shorts? or the small running shorts that barely extend below crotch level?
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Short enough to have someone's eye out 8)
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    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.
  • tobermory
    tobermory Posts: 138
    women is short shorts perfectly acceptable men a NO-NO
    Never trust anyone who says trust me
  • Drysuitdiver
    Drysuitdiver Posts: 474
    an alan partridge ball out short is not acceptable
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  • Blandiblub
    Blandiblub Posts: 134
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  • Clare_M
    Clare_M Posts: 68
    I'm sure your legs will look lovely in them :shock:
    I was a fatty, then I took up cycling and can now eat cake guilt free!

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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    I need pics before I give my opinion :wink:
  • ThatBikeGuy
    ThatBikeGuy Posts: 394
    Helps get rid of those tan lines...
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Here you go CW
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    Why did I just do that?
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  • Clare_M
    Clare_M Posts: 68
    Hmmmm, nice :D I know that's what all you cyclists look like under the lycra ;)

    Edited to add: that I know you guys don't wear pants under your lycra. I don't know what rule number that is, but it's true, isn't it?
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Clare_M wrote:
    Hmmmm, nice :D I know that's what all you cyclists look like under the lycra ;)

    Edited to add: that I know you guys don't wear pants under your lycra. I don't know what rule number that is, but it's true, isn't it?

    Of course it's true. The very idea.
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    thats a point, guys do you wear anything under lycra?

    surely you need something to keep you "contained" or you might risk an injury
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  • tobermory
    tobermory Posts: 138
    nope butt naked under the lycra
    Never trust anyone who says trust me
  • Wrath Rob
    Wrath Rob Posts: 2,918
    Why would you want to wear some chaffage inducing cotton nastyness under there? Unless you're Max Mosely in a S&M dungeon party...
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  • Clare_M
    Clare_M Posts: 68
    I find things do chafe, but I can't bring myself to commute without knickers on! :oops: :shock: :D
    I was a fatty, then I took up cycling and can now eat cake guilt free!

    "Triples are for girls" My Husband, 2010. (Evidently not for this girl though!)
  • ThatBikeGuy
    ThatBikeGuy Posts: 394
    mudcow007 wrote:
    thats a point, guys do you wear anything under lycra?

    surely you need something to keep you "contained" or you might risk an injury

    Used to when i just started out over the bitterly cold winter months, braving the snow and sub zero temperatures. Now i've MTFU and done without :lol:
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  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    sod that i wear boxers!!

    plus if i wasn't wearing anything underneath id think i was starkers an that's not an image i want to inflict on the world at 8am

    to quote Ned Flanders off The Simpson's
    Ned Flanders wrote:
    It feels like i'm wearing nothing at all
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  • walkingbootweather
    walkingbootweather Posts: 2,443
    Wot about those triathlon nutters, don't they ride in just a pair of budgie smugglers?
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  • seadog12
    seadog12 Posts: 36
    Got to be naked under the lycra. Boxer or brief seams are a recipe for saddle sores :)
  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    I wear lycra with baggies over the top - no chafing and it doesn't frighten the horses 8)
  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    I'll never understand why people wear stuff under lycra. Recipe for disaster. Besides, having a pi$$ is hard enough as it is in lycra, why make it more complicated!
  • mudcow007
    mudcow007 Posts: 3,861
    Il Principe wrote:
    I'll never understand why people wear stuff under lycra. Recipe for disaster. Besides, having a pi$$ is hard enough as it is in lycra, why make it more complicated!

    where would the fun be, if everything was easy.......
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  • Pufftmw
    Pufftmw Posts: 1,941
    When I wear lycra, I wear nothing underneath but there is some lycra that is almost transparent in nature and when following blokes in such lycra clad ar$ses, I do think its a bit "bleagh".
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  • Cafewanda
    Cafewanda Posts: 2,788
    Pufftmw wrote:
    When I wear lycra, I wear nothing underneath but there is some lycra that is almost transparent in nature and when following blokes in such lycra clad ar$ses, I do think its a bit "bleagh".

    This also applies to wimmin cyclists, although I appreciate some males wouldn't have a problem with that kind of a view :?

    Clare M - nothing under lycra. That is all 8) .
  • samivel
    samivel Posts: 81
    I go for lycra boxers under lycra so half way by my count
    Samivel

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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    samivel wrote:
    I go for lycra boxers under lycra so half way by my count

    Jeebus, I read that too fast the first time and missed out a letter in the last word...... :shock:
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  • samivel
    samivel Posts: 81
    SimonAH wrote:
    samivel wrote:
    I go for lycra boxers under lycra so half way by my count

    Jeebus, I read that too fast the first time and missed out a letter in the last word...... :shock:

    :lol::lol::lol:
    Samivel

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  • Clare_M
    Clare_M Posts: 68
    Cafewanda wrote:
    Pufftmw wrote:
    When I wear lycra, I wear nothing underneath but there is some lycra that is almost transparent in nature and when following blokes in such lycra clad ar$ses, I do think its a bit "bleagh".

    This also applies to wimmin cyclists, although I appreciate some males wouldn't have a problem with that kind of a view :?

    Clare M - nothing under lycra. That is all 8) .

    I have to wear a bra though! :D
    I was a fatty, then I took up cycling and can now eat cake guilt free!

    "Triples are for girls" My Husband, 2010. (Evidently not for this girl though!)
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Il Principe wrote:
    I'll never understand why people wear stuff under lycra. Recipe for disaster. Besides, having a pi$$ is hard enough as it is in lycra, why make it more complicated!

    From thimble bladder-man himself :lol:
    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.
  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    This thread is USELESS without pics :roll:
    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.

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