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  • tetley10
    tetley10 Posts: 693
    johngti said:

    tetley10 said:

    I saw a fella turn up on a club run and he was wearing red bib longs, extra red.

    1. We weren’t a club then
    2. We’d not been riding long so taste was yet to develop.
    3. THEY WERE BLACK AND RED!!!!!
    They were definitely mostly red.

  • webboo
    webboo Posts: 6,087
    I have a pair of red bib longs, Assos they are. Christmas present from the missus, I often pair them with a red gillet. I get seen without having to wear flo yellow.
  • tetley10
    tetley10 Posts: 693
    It looks like the red bib longs are de rigueur in the cake stop, @johngti.
  • johngti
    johngti Posts: 2,508
    There’s no pictorial evidence of these longs. However, there is definitely evidence of someone wearing baggies and ski socks, which IIRC were present on quite a large number of early bike rides...
  • fullfathom5
    fullfathom5 Posts: 4
    About 20 years ago I was in Reykjavik when a car came screaming around the corner and slid to a halt outside the bank I was walking past. A man in a Karate suit came running out and jumped in the car, which then sped off. Nobody else batted an eyelid.
  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,717
    edited April 2021
    johngti said:

    There’s no pictorial evidence of these longs. However, there is definitely evidence of someone wearing baggies and ski socks, which IIRC were present on quite a large number of early bike rides...

    Long socks with shorts was coming back into fashion with the hipster cycling fraternity when I left The Netherlands. No doubt 'gravel baggies' will bring it even further back into fashion...

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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,490
    tetley10 said:

    It was Swanley Asda though so he may have just been playing it safe.

    Was delivering a brand new Securicor cash vehicle to Swanlea. Turned 1st left into a Gypsy camp. Had to drive all the way up and all the way back to turn around. When I got to the yard, the vehicle was covered in mud and stone chips that were chucked at it by kids.

    The bloke said "Took the wrong turn mate?"

    I wasn't the first.


    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,490
    Paris, July '97.

    Stayed at la maison suédoise in the La Cité Universitaire.

    Late in the evenings was the rather haunting sound of a female opera singer, singing away in the distance, somewhere in the park.
    Didn't actually see her. I wanted to but the then GF was a bit paranoid.
    She wasn't practising nor attached to any production apparently, just took to singing on her own, in the dark.
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!

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