Late arrival...

[Aperitif]

...here

 

[mondobongo]

Bloody hell was worried for a bit there, thought I had become fashionable. Then they started slagging off lycra and I relaxed.

 

[John the Monkey]

This hatred of clichéd cyclewear unites bike-style bloggers across Europe and the US. They share a belief that the stereotype of an aggressive cyclist in Spandex shorts and wraparound shades does a great deal to harm the concept of cycling as simply a normal, everyday means of getting from one place to the next.

This sort of stuff is bollocks though. You see it a lot on the utility bike sites, where they slag off drop bars as "playthings" and "sportbikes" as though you're supposed to do a 30 mile round trip commute with a bloody Bakfiets or city bike. (Although, chapeau to anyone who does). It's far more about having the right tool for the job - the Bakfiets has its place, as does the derided mtb and racing/touring bike.

That, I guess, is one of the problems with cycling becoming fashionable - the sort of people who care about such things will want some other group to be unfashionable so they can feel superior and trendy.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

cycling needs to be fashionable like a fish needs a bicycle…

 

[ChrisKH]

The problem is, for me, Agyness Dean and the like are making the bike fashionable not cycling. So as with the fashion industry generally it's about form over function. I console myself that she won't be on a bike in a year's time.

Isn't it time we lobbied for her to wear a helmet?

 

[red_tom]

She can wear my helm.....oh never mind.

 

[Maz]

Hmm. I've looked at bike over and over, but I still haven't quite figured out "Is it worth £6000?"

(at that price it should come with a supermodel!)

 

[fossyant]

A pile of poo - £6k for that - I think not....Where is the carbon and Ti groupset, not even a sniff of Super Record...tisk !

 

[fossyant]

Chav tastic - do they do shorts and tops ?