How old is too old for Lycra 🥴

[youngoldbloke]

Never too old! I seem to have more cycling kit than civvies - I'm tempted to wear it all the time. 73 this year, just 9 stone. Don't forget you should be shaving your legs too ....

 

[Venod]

Nothing wrong with the lycra, but the full colour matching is way OTT

Shorts must be black. IMO, no or discreet logos.

 

[boydj]

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A lot of it is still a mystery. For example my daughter is Type 1, but we don't know why she became type 1 Diabetic at 11 years of age. It just happened. Something somewhere started doing things with her immune system. Luckily she is managing really well so far.
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Very similar to my daughter, who's now in her 40's and keeping a tight rein on her blood sugars.

I'm still in lycra when I go out (on the bike), and have no plans to do otherwise. It does help that I have the same waist size as I had 50 years ago. It's just the thighs that have a bit more meat on them.

 

[Tripster]

Don't forget you should be shaving your legs too ....

No No No No No

 

[roadrash]

I may have said this once or twice before......
wear what you like and like what you wear...….feck em

 

[Jenkins]

Nothing wrong with the lycra, but the full colour matching is way OTT.

I take a perverse delight in mis-matching my cycling clothes when I go for a ride e.g red jersey, black shorts, blue socks and orange/pink helmet just to hear my wife say "have you looked in a mirror at all?" There is no need for an answer.

My preferred way of doing it is to match baggy shorts with replica road team kit - Sky stuff picked up on clearance or the retro jerseys from Prendas for example - or bib shorts with the loose fit casual tops from Foska

 

[MntnMan62]

No No No No No

I'm one hairy SOaB and there is no way I'm shaving my legs.....

 

[raleighnut]

I used to work with a woman who said she was following a diet which had the core principle that you could basically eat as much bread as you wanted.
Don't remember what the theory was. That it was relatively low in fat (compared to chips?) maybe.

Don't remember if she said what this diet was called - I assumed (pre widespread internet) that she'd got it out of a mag.

The 'Fat Arse' plan

 

[vickster]

52 and wear my lycra with pride, I'm old enough not to care what anyone thinks
The first time is a bit daunting but once you've made the leap of faith there is no going back... Oh and agree with Vickster, DO NOT GET WHITE SHORTS unless you have something to shout about.

And that isn’t a hairy bum crack - not a good thing to a shout about to any poor cyclist with the misfortune of following you

 

[vickster]

Shorts must be black. IMO no or discreet logos.

Navy blue look good too

 

[Miko1806]

I'm one hairy SOaB and there is no way I'm shaving my legs.....

I used to as a young impressionable novice to road cycling but no more as at my age shaving my legs will definitely not make me go faster..... And the wife doesn't like it as she says I have better looking legs than her 🤪

 

[raleighnut]

And that isn’t a hairy bum crack - not a good thing to a shout about to any poor cyclist with the misfortune of following you

And to think I thought of you as such a nice person. Next you'll be telling us you as @Saluki called it 'Bike Tarting' where you stand on the pedals and 'wiggle' after passing a fanciable bloke.

 

[vickster]

And to think I thought of you as such a nice person. Next you'll be telling us you as @Saluki called it 'Bike Tarting' where you stand on the pedals and 'wiggle' after passing a fanciable bloke.

Huh

 

[Blue Hills]

Shorts must be black. IMO, no or discreet logos.

exactly.
Please tell the italians.
The number of Italians I have followed out for their weekend spin who seem to feel the need to wear the entire branded team kit.

 

[Blue Hills]

The 'Fat Arse' plan

I'd best not comment on her arse.
In her defence I at the time maybe half believed her - like many ex students I seemed to live on pasta for years - had the idea that it was inherently virtuous as it was relatively low in fat. Am nutritionally wiser now.