ChrisFilter
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I'm not questioning it's efficacy, but it's only one part of a much bigger part. No point having a massive engine if you can't stay out for more than 20 miles.
How was your cycle commute?
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I'm not questioning it's efficacy, but it's only one part of a much bigger part. No point having a massive engine if you can't stay out for more than 20 miles.
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
ChrisFilter
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The issue is largely around an objection to elitism and exclusivity in cycling. Personally I hate Castelli far more than Rapha. Nasty, garish clobber. Rapha stuff, on the whole, is lovely.
If I was going to spend silly money on cycling clobber it'd be on Vulpine or Le Col, I think. As it is I'm riddled with DhB and Decathlon stuff. Although I mostly cycle in my club kit.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
I have a shitload* of them.
*though I believe 'embarassment' is the correct collective noun.
It does seem to evoke a real comedy sense of "everyone that wears one is a twat...apart from me in my [Pro Team Jersey] which I wear because it's just a damn great item of clothing that works"
I'd also suggest my collection of £4k bikes is similarly a touch #notrealurbans too, though we all have our vices...
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
I just wear my normal clothes. I had some proper windproof cycling gloves for a while but I left them on the train eventually.
I don't think I've ever seen any cycling clothes that look anywhere near good. They always look like cycling clothes and that really isn't a good look.
I don't think I've ever seen any cycling clothes that look anywhere near good. They always look like cycling clothes and that really isn't a good look.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Brilliant - it's been a while since the last Rapha bunfight!
Cycling has always had loads of these hadith regarding gear, etc. Rapha will be perfectly acceptable when they are no longer associated with "Team UK Postal". See also Pinarello - cool as fuck when they supplied Telekom/CSC and Jan Ullrich had a mullet, now beyond the pale.
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
If you had a Brooks saddle 15 years ago you were an old cunt. Now you are a hip cunt.
Utopia
"Jackanackanory"
Rapha kit is lovely, agreed, and it lasts so theres no false economy in cheaper, lesser quality gear.
Well there's certainly no elitism in my small group of fellow cyclists, we just ride for the enjoyment/freedom/exercise although outside the cafe at Box Hill on a Sunday i've certainly experienced plenty of bike/kit snobbery.....but then who gives a fuck what they think?
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Lord Hugh
Multiply and
In my day, we just put pillows on the seat and hoped for the best! None of this padding nonsense.
In my day, the pillow were full of rocks
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
There's padding on the seat, tbf.In my day, we just put pillows on the seat and hoped for the best! None of this padding nonsense.
In my day, the pillow were full of rocks
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
I've never really experienced bike snobbery - I think it's one of those things that people think exists (because logic/nature dictates it perhaps should) though it doesn't in reality.
I find people who 'like bikes' are understandably proud of their own creation/purchase and equally admirable of someone elses. If someone rides in 'lesser' gear more power too them tbf.
Same with the Rapha stuff - it's great kit and doesn't make me look too much like a hipster or fluoro GG type*, but I fucking hate the contrast left arm band shit about it all. People want DISCRETE clothing that works. The shit marketing is a disappointing annoyance though it's not really the reason I get into it (though I do like their stance on all things classic/old
).DHB seem to nail it (on paper, though not sure if the quality is there - I've just ordered some £26 bib tights to test them) and have suitably copied the Rapha/Castelli/Poc trend amongs the respective crowds.
*That's not being snobby, nor dismissive of HWYCC threads very own GG (beyond a mild ribbing
). Just not my thing. Those guys look similarly to me for being so flippin ninja-invisible
Sigmund Fraud
893 all the way.
My best ever cycling purchase is a £4 double fronted undershirt from Lidl in 2004 - still going strong, been up the Galibier, Alp D'Huez, done Roubaix, Koppenberg.
My resistance to Crapha is bedded in their first year range (2004 - I went to the launch party) which featured a £150 pair of 3/4 lengths with the cheapest Nailini pad available stitched in. That and their skull crushing PR machine which now has extended itself into the ranks of my cycling club and petitions for any criticism of the brand to be removed from the club board. If I had the money I would buy Assos, and most of the time I buy Giordana, Nalini, Endura - all of which are as good if not better than Crapha quality wise but not as stylish...or expensive.
Lord Hugh
Multiply and
Put another saddle on your saddle then, that'll do ya!
see also:
Pffft. When I were a lad, someone stitched a picture of a kangaroo on the back of them and the trendy kids wore them backwards.
Well, they wore them forwards, but a forward kangol hat was basically a backwards flat cap with a picture of a kangaroo stitched on it, iyswim?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I'm a reverse bike snob. I think people should just ride their fucking bikes and blabbing on about them. 
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
I've never really experienced bike snobbery - I think it's one of those things that people think exists (because logic/nature dictates it perhaps should) though it doesn't in reality.
I find people who 'like bikes' are understandably proud of their own creation/purchase and equally admirable of someone elses. If someone rides in 'lesser' gear more power too them tbf.
Same with the Rapha stuff - it's great kit and doesn't make me look too much like a hipster or fluoro GG type*, but I fucking hate the contrast left arm band shit about it all. People want DISCRETE clothing that works. The shit marketing is a disappointing annoyance though it's not really the reason I get into it (though I do like their stance on all things classic/old
DHB seem to nail it (on paper, though not sure if the quality is there - I've just ordered some £26 bib tights to test them) and have suitably copied the Rapha/Castelli/Poc trend amongs the respective crowds.
*That's not being snobby, nor dismissive of HWYCC threads very own GG (beyond a mild ribbing
I've got DhB's super roubaix winter bib-tights and they've been great. 3 rides a week totaling about 100 miles and washed in between (obviously) since November and they still look new.
ChrisFilter
Like a boss.
I'm a reverse bike snob. I think people should just ride their fucking bikes and blabbing on about them.
Talking about bikes is all part of the fun.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
I'm a reverse bike snob. I think people should just ride their fucking bikes and blabbing on about them.
I fucking LOVE bikes, and can and will talk about them for days. Other threads are available matey
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
These are the ones I'm going to try...http://www.wiggle.co.uk/dhb-active-thermal-padded-bib-tight/
I have 4 (5 if you include the transfer
) Rapha jackets, though still hankering trying out the DHB Gabba Convertible copy (I'll call it the DHaBba) http://www.wiggle.co.uk/dhb-switch-convertible-softshell-jacketgilet/
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
This thread was supposed to be about commutes though.Ted Striker said:I fucking LOVE bikes, and can and will talk about them for days. Other threads are available matey
I wasn't complaining though. Just bewildered at your interest in the tiniest details. I don't even know how many gears my bike has or what metal it's made of. I just like riding it
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
I'm fine with one.
Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
Fair enough, can understand any nerdy chat is of limited interest outside of the nerd-circle
At the end of the day I'm quite of a "if you're cycling, you're winning" mentality so more power to us all 
Lord Hugh
Multiply and
Just wait until you grow a second arse.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
I just use running gear for cycling in. I did get some lycra in the sales but it's a bit too cold for it yet.
Rebelda
Nearly as bad as Badgers
I started out cycling in whatever. But the more I did it, the more I realised it'd be quicker/more efficient/more comfortable in specific gear. Started with the shoes, when I got to the point that my walking boots didn't have a rigid enough sole. Moved on to lycra and merino because I'm sweaty Plus padding helps, as I still don't have a women's saddle.
Plus padding helps, as I still don't have a women's saddle.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I am enjoying my DeMarchi thermal bib tights this winter, it has to be said, better than the 3/4 length Adidas leggings that I inherited from an ex-girlfriend that I made do with in previous years. Lucked out getting them for £3 from a charity shop though, so still technically a cheapskate.
I'm back on the Aldi windproof jacket because I lost the zip on my better (but not very good) polaris jacket a few weeks ago, but I'm currently talking myself round to getting a Gore jacket, although all the stuff in the sales at the moment is tiny or massive sizes. I'm saving about sixty quid a month by not getting the bus to work, so I can put some of that back in the pot for a bit of luxury.
I'm back on the Aldi windproof jacket because I lost the zip on my better (but not very good) polaris jacket a few weeks ago, but I'm currently talking myself round to getting a Gore jacket, although all the stuff in the sales at the moment is tiny or massive sizes. I'm saving about sixty quid a month by not getting the bus to work, so I can put some of that back in the pot for a bit of luxury.
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