Are you a...dare I say it, cycling tart ?

[ed_o_brain]

I went through an all black phase.

Bike with black everything. Black longs. Black cycling jacket. I quickly got bored of it.

It's function over form and my other half says my legs will look good in anything!

 

[Eat MY Dust]

You decide.

I bought a blue and white helmet to match my Scotland/saltire top. I have a black bike with yellow bar tape and yellow Conti GP4000s. I also have the Continetal race kit which is all black and yellow. I even use conti inner tubes, these have yellow valves!

Like I said you decide!

 

[Chrisz]

You decide.

I bought a blue and white helmet to match my Scotland/saltire top. I have a black bike with yellow bar tape and yellow Conti GP4000s. I also have the Continetal race kit which is all black and yellow. I even use conti inner tubes, these have yellow valves!

Like I said you decide!

Seems perfectly reasonable to me - I did exactly the same with my old Yello/Black Giant frame. Now I have a red/white/black frame it's a definite case of 'All change'.

 

[Will1985]

You decide.

I bought a blue and white helmet to match my Scotland/saltire top. I have a black bike with yellow bar tape and yellow Conti GP4000s. I also have the Continetal race kit which is all black and yellow. I even use conti inner tubes, these have yellow valves!

Like I said you decide!

Blue and white helmet? Black and yellow bike and kit? You're starting to sound like Lance on a training ride! No yellow Hudz?

 

[grhm]

I have one top that has so many strips on it in different colours, that it looks like a demented thunder storm;
...
I originally got it because I had hoped that being so bright and busy the cars might give me a wider berth; but, it seems to work the other way round, cars pass closer. Could be they want a better look or perhaps it works like the old dazzle camouflage they put on battleships and the drivers can’t see me?

I read something that said drivers tend to notice large blocks of colour more than busy patterns (but can't find the link to the paper at the mo - think it was called "Being Big on a Bike" or "Giving the impression of Bigness" or something like).

Thus a plain red, blue or yellow top will draw a drivers attention more than a bright but striped top. They'll tune out the fine detail and in so doing unconciously half-ignore you. (At least that was the theory)

 

[chris667]

Have you seen reflective tweed?
http://www.dashingtweeds.co.uk/dt/?page_id=43

 

[punkypossum]

I would like one of them fosca pirate jerseys to coordinate with my water bottles!

 

[BentMikey]

You decide.

Do you shave/wax your legs in summer?

 

[Eat MY Dust]

Do you shave/wax your legs in summer?

No, but I would if I weren't so lazy. Does that make me a lazy hairy tart?

 

[BentMikey]

Yuck, you're definitely not a tart!

I must admit shaving is a bit of a pain, but now I get mine waxed at the salon down the road. Much better!

 

[Mortiroloboy]

not tart but quite dressy

Me too, I love the lycra got plenty of different team kit.

 

[mickwood]

SHAVING LEGS!?!?

now that's a line I'm not happy to cross! LOL!

 

[BentMikey]

Even better is getting them professionally waxed. Ooh I live for the comments from girls.