On 9/02/2011 10:15 AM, Patrick Keogh wrote:
Geoff, it is time to get over the lycra thing: or seek therapy.

I have been undergoing therapy for some years now and I am getting
better I used to be worse - believe it or not

I think the Lycra thing with me is that I can't afford it and I am just
jealous

ridden by someone in overalls they are all just other cyclists.

True, true.

Go faster than them if you wish to and you can, ride along and chat,
dawdle as they zoom past, it is all the same.

I dunno about chatting as some of them seem decidedly unfriendly.

Every additional person (regardless of wardrobe) who rides a bike makes
it a healthier and safer place for you and for me. This goes for people
who ride on roads, off road, on cycle paths or on the velodrome. It is
all good.

And it will get better

That person trundling down to the shops on the bike with baskets front
and rear could be me. Or the person out cruising on the retro fixie, or
wearing tough clothes on the dualie out on some singletrack, or with my
laden touring bike rolling down some country road, or in my lycra on my
CF road bike, I don't change personality when I swap bikes so I don't
apply stereotypes to other bike riders either.

That is an interesting comment about changing personality when swapping
bikes. Some folks do and some folks don't

BTW, how is the restoration going with the Europa?