Comments on: The Cycling Costume http://tleaves.com/2006/05/19/the-cycling-costume/ Creativity x Technology Sat, 17 Mar 2012 05:09:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: lunartalks http://tleaves.com/2006/05/19/the-cycling-costume/comment-page-1/#comment-2875 lunartalks Wed, 31 May 2006 12:11:47 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=621#comment-2875 Cycling jersey: plain but bright. Don't buy a logo emblazoned team jersey or a yellow one, you'll just look a dork and be a dork for paying to advertize someone else's products. Clipless: go for SPD rather than looks. I took a tumble recently and walking a mile carrying my wounded bike was no fun in Looks. Why did I tumble? A quick lech at an oh so fine lady horserider in jodphurs using those shades that allow you to do so without being seen. Until I went off the road into a ditch and it's all too obvious. Helmet? Maybe. Depends on how I'm feeling. I used to work for a cycling organization and we were equivocal about them. It should be a personal choice. Sometimes I do, often not. I'd always recommend a pair of cycling shorts if poss. Cycling jersey: plain but bright. Don’t buy a logo emblazoned team jersey or a yellow one, you’ll just look a dork and be a dork for paying to advertize someone else’s products. Clipless: go for SPD rather than looks. I took a tumble recently and walking a mile carrying my wounded bike was no fun in Looks. Why did I tumble? A quick lech at an oh so fine lady horserider in jodphurs using those shades that allow you to do so without being seen. Until I went off the road into a ditch and it’s all too obvious. Helmet? Maybe. Depends on how I’m feeling. I used to work for a cycling organization and we were equivocal about them. It should be a personal choice. Sometimes I do, often not. I’d always recommend a pair of cycling shorts if poss.

]]> By: cache http://tleaves.com/2006/05/19/the-cycling-costume/comment-page-1/#comment-2874 cache Sat, 20 May 2006 01:45:57 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=621#comment-2874 I've found that if you bike a lot (to and from work and on weekends), then gloves serve another purpose --- to reduce the likelihood that your hands will be covered with grotesque bikers' callouses. So thanks to gloves, my hands are soft, smooth and supple...hmm... -david I’ve found that if you bike a lot (to and from work and on weekends), then gloves serve another purpose — to reduce the likelihood that your hands will be covered with grotesque bikers’ callouses. So thanks to gloves, my hands are soft, smooth and supple…hmm…

-david

]]> By: Doug http://tleaves.com/2006/05/19/the-cycling-costume/comment-page-1/#comment-2873 Doug Sat, 20 May 2006 00:55:03 +0000 http://tleaves.com/?p=621#comment-2873 So true, so true! When I first got "clipless pedals" I was using my friend's shimano clips. I practiced "falling" and getting out so that I'd have the instincts. Then I got eggbeaters that took more turning of the foot to get out. So I was riding to work, came to a stop light, stopped, and turned my foot. It didn't come out. I fell over sideways, without moving. I didn't even take my hands off the handlebars because I have this strange belief that when my feet are connected, so are my hands. Seriously though, the clips have kept me out of serious crashes both offroad and on. They have gotten me into many little embarrasing crashes. Well worth it. So true, so true!

When I first got “clipless pedals” I was using my friend’s shimano clips. I practiced “falling” and getting out so that I’d have the instincts. Then I got eggbeaters that took more turning of the foot to get out. So I was riding to work, came to a stop light, stopped, and turned my foot. It didn’t come out. I fell over sideways, without moving. I didn’t even take my hands off the handlebars because I have this strange belief that when my feet are connected, so are my hands.

Seriously though, the clips have kept me out of serious crashes both offroad and on. They have gotten me into many little embarrasing crashes. Well worth it.

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