Can riding a pink bike be considered manly?

[ComedyPilot]

What is manly?

I get called a poof for riding a bike to work.

If I drive to work I get called a poof for not biking?

This whole manly debate is just another case of a country so hell-bent on image and posturing, that it fails to actually get on with life, and spends it's time criticising and dissecting other people's actions.

By the way, I like ladies.

 

[biggs682]

wouldnt bother me at all , sweetie

 

[Speicher]

Nothing wrong at all with a pink bike. I would avoid the matching shorts tho'.

Even Fabian Cancellara does not look good in pink.

 

[downfader]

Giro d'Italia

 

[Speicher]

Giro d'Italia

Yes, and IIRC even Bertie Contador does not suit pink.

I once spoke to someone who had just got off a pink bicycle, and there is absolutely no way that he could be described as unmanly.

 

[montage]

I think that other cyclists will think little of you having a pink bike, but none cyclists will have a couple of questions running through their minds

 

[sarahpink]

That must of been you then Sarah Pink 2 weeks ago in Newton Abbot heading along past B&Q up towards the racecourse ?

yep that would have been me. go along the road alot

 

[StuAff]

What is manly?

I get called a poof for riding a bike to work.

If I drive to work I get called a poof for not biking?

This whole manly debate is just another case of a country so hell-bent on image and posturing, that it fails to actually get on with life, and spends it's time criticising and dissecting other people's actions.

By the way, I like ladies.

+1. Yesterday, I was on the Viner in bib tights etc when I was told by some fat kid on a BMX that I looked like a faggot (I assume he meant homosexual rather than a dish of pork, liver and onions...). Insults have less impact when the person who makes them is stupid, out of shape, and on a feeble excuse for a form of transport...

I wouldn't buy a pink bike, only because I'm not over-fond of the colour, but I think the PX ones look great.

 

[Piemaster]

These guys riding the pink Planet X are they team riders? (excuse my ignorance) Are they riding pink bikes because thats what they've been given to ride rather than a personal choice and its either a Planet X marketing thing to get them noticed, which it certainly would, or because they had a shedload of them built and can't shift them. I seem to recall previous runs of their frames, when I bought my Pompino, were out of stock in more conventional colours and sizes but they had a full choice of sizes in pink.

I'd actually have to see one in the flesh before I could make a decision on the original question. Hows its built up and the shade of the frame could persuade me either way

 

[StuAff]

These guys riding the pink Planet X are they team riders? (excuse my ignorance) Are they riding pink bikes because thats what they've been given to ride rather than a personal choice and its either a Planet X marketing thing to get them noticed, which it certainly would, or because they had a shedload of them built and can't shift them. I seem to recall previous runs of their frames, when I bought my Pompino, were out of stock in more conventional colours and sizes but they had a full choice of sizes in pink.

I'd actually have to see one in the flesh before I could make a decision on the original question. Hows its built up and the shade of the frame could persuade me either way

People actually do buy them, I met a female rider with an SL Pro Carbon a few weeks back. Really bright pink IRL.

 

[downfader]

Its funny really as pink as a colour has only really had that unmanly connotation in the past 100 years or so. I have read that people a few hundred years back would never adorn their young boys with pale blues (now a common "boy colour") as it was seen as virginal and related to the Virgin Mary.

I personally get called "gay" and "fag" by mates at work. Just for wearing the bibs, the lycra or riding the bike. Its just banter and I give as good as I get. They know that they cant use their bodies to power themselves up hill at 20mph, some cant even walk up a flight of stairs, haha!! I think theres a kind of mild jealousy at times and that comes out as banter.

 

[citybabe]

Sorry Dr Squirrel but I'm a woman and even I wouldn't ride a pink bike

 

[Randochap]

Depends on the rest of your ensemble ... and remember this admonition from fashion arbiter Diana Vreeland: "Unshined shoes are the absolute end of civilization, darling."