The body and the riding style must have some play in this as well. Presumably many of the loaded cycle touring Europeans one sees on the Eurovelo routes are riding multi-day. They probably do not ride a full 100+km every day and likely stop more frequently than someone attempting a timed ride will. Nonetheless it immediately jumps out at this U.S. person's eyes how many of them are not wearing cycle specific anything.
Lycra, Spandex, cycle shoes, etc are certainly available in Europe. Euro road racing club members are just as likely to be wearing full race gear as those in the U.S. Tourists however consistently hew to the GP ideal. Either they are all masochists or they have discovered a happy medium many cycle tourists in the U.S. have not. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
