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I walked into a Subway one time after a ride wearing my lycra bike shorts and jersey. Some little boys saw me, hiked their shorts up to give themselves wedgies, and started dancing around me like the dwarfs in This is Spinal Tap during the "Stonehenge" scene. Everybody in the place was laughing. I laughed as well and never went into a store again wearing my bike shorts. Kink-shaming can be a force for good.
Phones are the same though. Except the aliens evolved past the primitive need for selfie cameras.
Nice try, aliens, I'm not paying any gym subscriptions. Your mocking won't prevent me from exercising outdoors
Planets Fitness
Goatee isn't aero
Found the human
I believe that is the chinstrap for the helmet. Could be wrong.
The grey round the mouth isn't a chinstrap. I'm guessing we're looking at a MAMIL.
a MAMIL
WTH, there's an initialism to make everyone feel bad these days*... Leave them Lycra daddies alone! I can hardly think of a more wholesome hobby!
(* no offense meant to acronym & initialism smiths. Your work is valued.)
I can hardly think of a more wholesome hobby!
I would agree except for the $15,000 bicycle. It's just comedy how much these things cost these days.
Yeah, nothing wrong with that. I'm not super into it, because I think it's a bit over the top if you're just doing it occasionally (more of just riding an ebike myself from time to time to enjoy the nature and also doing something for my body)... But I have a friend who's super into it and can afford the expensive gear... he's also caring a LOT about health (only eating non-UPF, only eating "carb" food when his body needs it during cycling, etc.). It mainly started when he got very ill and since then it was a wakeup call for him. Well, let those people enjoy life and let them value the things they believe in! Nothing wrong with that (as long as they don't act like "assholes" thinking the streets are only for themselves)
Proud MAMIL here. I don't find it insulting at all. I think it's some cute and fun self-deprecating humor.
Pretty sure that acronym isn't new.
(Also, it really is an acronym pronounced "mammal," not an initialism.)
I'm not too many years of MAMIL-hood myself. It's a good acronym.
I'm partly color blind and didn't see that before. Yeah that's a goatee
Moustache doesn't make any difference though. Victor Campenaerts tested this in a wind tunnel. I suppose with a goatee, a hairy chin might cause some drag.
But cyclists like that look really SciFi
I don't know any cyclist that thinks they look good in that gear. We all wear it because it's the only thing that makes sitting on a bike saddle for 4+ hours at a time physically tolerable.
I feel like a sexy little wrestler in a padded leotard when wearing my biking bibs.
You can get cycling clothes that just look like clothes, it's a two layer system with underwear that do the job of cycle shorts, then a reasonably close fitting outer layer.
Road guys wear lycra because it's aero.
I've tried those. Nowhere near as comfortable as bibs.