Daccordi Rider wrote:Cycling is held back by our society being fat and lazy, if the best excuse they can come up with is that some people wear lycra or that the government wants you to protect your head then their heart really is not in it. Excuses are easy.
And the lycra is very freeing. Once you have been seen in public in lycra you will never again worry about what people think of you and what you wear. You achieve clothing zen.
All I see here is another opinion piece, just written by a different writer, from a predetermined viewpoint.
From my position as Mr average, my heart is into riding, but I must admit to having had to retrain myself to ride every where on errands and such. It sure gets easier as the days go by.
A couple of years ago on my first ride of one kilometre I could hardly stand when I got back home. But the hardest thing was to overcome the fear of the road, not the cycling. And this is what my wife says as well. Nothing to do with being fat and lazy at all.
Because of me taking up riding I have encouraged at least six others into the fray, and I didn't do it by calling them fat and lazy.Though I must say some of us are a little short for our weight.
In the two years of riding, the only push-bike riders I have come across have unfortunately been dressed in Lycra.
Its all wide open roads out here and not too many seem to slow down for a cyclist. If cyclists don't slow for pedestrians on paths, all we do is visit the motorists behaviour onto pedestrians.
I have to say that the Lycra clothing certainly does not look to be freeing , and in fact looks like it would be hot to wear. And not too many with out drop bars seem to wear the stuff.