Oh come on! It’s true. Cyclists look ridiculous. If you’re a cyclist, just take a look in the mirror and face the facts.

But there kind of are good reasons why bikers wear all that clobber. I’ll save the explanations for another time, but suffice it to say that your biking loved-one is not wearing all that spandex JUST to look cool (?!)

And he or she can never have too many pairs of shorts because if they are like me, then recently-worn shorts go straight in the laundry basket (if they don’t, they should!) and can sit there for up to 2 weeks. Short of fishing them out and reusing them (which I have never done, obviously), a shorts shortage is a problem frequently faced by the cycling fraternity.

So make that cyclist in your life happy with the gift of Lycra this Christmas! Actually, there are a couple of basic types of shorts - the regular ones you will have seen on the tour de France, the really tight ones that leave nothing to the imagination, and mountain-biking shorts which look more like bermudas but have the same seat padding in them, and also have lots of pockets for the mountain-biker to keep his bits in.

Check the size, follow the general rule “you pay for what you get” (probably anything below about $30 is best avoided - it will probably rip easily) and you can’t go far wrong. And yes, cycling shorts DO look really weird when not worn…!

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Posted on October 30th, 2007 by markowe
Filed under: MTB christmas