On 02/25/2015 10:30 AM, Will wrote:
so... was all that discomfort related clothes... or related to
position on bike?
Clothes. Cycling shoes eliminate foot pressure, cycling shorts have
padding and no seams to create pressure ridges. The following year with
no changes other than clothing I did my first century in comfort.
Also, I did not mention because it wasn't a critical factor in that
failure, but comparing lycra jerseys with cotton T shirts in hot and
humid conditions such as metro-DC area summers, it's clear that lycra is
far cooler and more comfortable.
The longer distances you ride and the more difficult conditions, in
general the more clothing specific to the sport benefits you.
That's not to say it's absolutely essential: on the first century I did
complete, there was a kid who ride the whole thing barefoot on rat trap
pedals. Don't ask me how, my feet would have been raw meat.
On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 8:53:57 AM UTC-6, Steve Palincsar
wrote:
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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