On 02/25/2015 09:41 AM, Will wrote:
Why do you need to wear special clothes to ride? Not arguing, just curious. I've been riding for about 50 years. Newspaper bikes as a before teenage years, then Raleigh racers in college. Shorts and tee shirt have always worked for me. What's the advantage of bike shop attire?
I will never forget the first time I tried to ride a century. It was 1973, and I had a P15 Paramount. I was wearing a T shirt, BVDs, cut off denim jeans for shorts, some kind of sneakers and no gloves. By the end of the ride I had branded into my memory the true meaning of the Johnny Cash song "Ring of Fire" -- blazing lines of pain on my backside from the seams on both underwear and denim shorts, parallel grooves of pain in my feet where the edges of the pedals had transmitted their pressure through the soles of my sneakers. My hands felt as though they were on fire as well. Every 10 miles or so I'd stop and lie down on the ground and try to will the agony away, but by mile 75 I realized I'd been wishing a dog would run out in front of me so I could crash and just lay down on the pavement. At that point I stopped and waited for the SAG wagon. It's the only time I've ever SAGged back from a century.
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