2006-09-08 23:47:39 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Cycling
If you have to ask this question you have never rode a bike for any long period of time. Looking stupid is nothing compared to feeling like someone took freaking sandpaper to your bikini line!!!
2006-09-09 01:10:41 · answer #1 · answered by Lisa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Answer is yes. Cycling shorts are padded to reduce soreness and sure their made from Lycra a necessary part of being a cyclist. But, you also remember that Lycra wasn't the original fabric for bicycle shorts. The first fabric was wool which I've used in past and it stinks as cycling fabric(IT'S WAY TOO HOT TO RIDE IN) besides if had to choose between a sore tail or strange looks I choose strange looks because it shows you're a "serious" cycler. I wear them almost 7 days a week.
2006-09-09 00:09:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
lycra is a yes but in winter the best clothes to wear is lycra with warm clothes over the top. As I am a very keen cyclist and fine it fine what ever time of year it is apart from the rain and snow. As then you can feel very cold and wet.
2006-09-09 06:10:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's what the "pros" wear and I'm guessing you've seen them. There is a reason. For my personal recreational riding I find Lycra to be uncomfortable. When I ride I wear boating shorts, 100% cotton with zippered pockets. They're comfy and I don't lose anything, works for me!
2006-09-09 00:00:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If someone wears lycra for sexual enjoyment, that's weird. Wearing tights a few times a week while cycling or working out is just being practical.
What's really weird are people who are afraid or ashamed of their own bodies, like males (I wouldn't call them men) afraid to wear speedos for _competitive_ swimming, never mind relaxing at a pool.
Western "men" who wear baggy clothes on the street and dork shorts at the beach are scared into wearing them just like muslim women are scared into wearing burqas. 'Hip hop' clothes *are* the male burqa.
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2006-09-09 00:06:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i discover this proposition frankly insulting! besides the undeniable fact that i'm as yet in user-friendly terms 22 years previous,I actual have long aspired to be a center elderly bike proprietor in brightly colored tight installation lycra. Any legislations which might curtail the fulfillment of this dream could be at the beginning detestable, and secondly a severe breech of the excepted human rights. I for one take this question to be a call to palms to all plump neon velocipedists. The gentleman asks "What can we appear like??" I recommend we instruct him in our hundreds and terrorize him, his kin, his pets and his in demand patisserie artist. enable that be an end to all extra discourse in this maximum gentle of matters.
2016-12-18 07:21:57 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless you're actually COMPETING at the time, NOOOOO. Please. Wear a regular pair of shorts, shaving off that 10th of a second as you ride down the street isn't worth scarring the passing motorists and children that have to see your sweaty padded bootay. And if the padding really is necessary, put some dang shorts over the top. Seriously, now. Sheesh. Even the rare few hotties would look so much better if they weren't in that stuff.
2006-09-09 00:12:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anna C 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Definitely yes.
Cyclists wear them foremost for the comfort and partly for the look. What is so odd about that??
2006-09-09 02:19:30 · answer #8 · answered by OnThe36th 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, definitely. Funny for onlookers, comfy for the cyclist!
2006-09-08 23:55:58 · answer #9 · answered by kpbunches 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh, gosh, YES!!! especially for the men. It's the only chance we men have of showing off on dry land -- you cannot wear Speedos into a cafe.
2006-09-08 23:54:18 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋