On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 9:36:30 PM UTC-5, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 02/26/2015 08:06 PM, Doug Williams wrote: > > Perfect Geir! > > > > Just wear whatever works for the ride you will be doing. Exercise clothes > or racing kit are fine if that is what you are doing. Nothing wrong with > bike clothes for a long and/or hard ride. But bike shoes and jerseys in the > grocery store are just…well…whatever. Again, I maintain that MANY > bicyclists simply can’t imagine going on a “regular ride” in “regular > clothes”. They miss out on many good rides because they simply can’t ride > without their racing kit. In the time spent getting dressed, I could have > already been at the grocery store. The result is that the “racing kit > crowd” never ride on short errand rides, because it is just too much > trouble to get into their uniform. > > > It's a right pain walking around in a store shopping wearing cycling > shoes. Also, odds are good a bike you'd use on a "regular" ride couldn't > carry groceries anyway. On top of that, what are the chances the bike > would be stolen? Hardly worth taking the risk. It's a lot more than just > "too much trouble to get into the uniform." >
Uniform schmooniform. I wear my SPD shoes/sandals all summer long without any problems, in stores or out. And my "only" bike is good for centuries or groceries. Most days I wear "regular" clothes to the office. Sometimes I wear wool. It's all good. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
