I've started cycling to work everyday in a bid to get fit, but people say it makes me

I've started cycling to work everyday in a bid to get fit, but people say it makes me look gay.

So, to macho up my image a little bit, I've drawn some racing stripes on my basket.

 

Re: I've started cycling to work everyday in a bid to get fit, but people say it make

Pics?

 

Re: I've started cycling to work everyday in a bid to get fit, but people say it make

put a seat on it then ffs!

 

Reminds me of the time...

...my frame snapped on my road bike (welds at top of seat stays - I was lucky the stays didn't impale my nether regions). I had to cycle to work on the only other thing in the shed. A folding bike complete with basket. I'm just thankful this was in the days before camera phones.

Allus thought it would be worth the effort to get really fit just to realise the gag of overtaking a road club on a shopping bike while calling "toodlehoo!" in the campest voice possible.

 

Re: I've started cycling to work everyday in a bid to get fit, but people say it make

For pity's sake, don't what ever you do become a MAMIL (Middle Aged Man In Lycra). I'm a middle aged man (ok, Old Git) but I will not wear the silly cycling gear they put on. I wear cycling shorts (for the padding) but under a pair of ordinary shorts and an ordinary T-shirt, thereby preserving my dignity while enjoying my rides.

 

A fair warning indeed

May I suggest mountain biking shorts, which have the padding within but have a normal appearance.

Also along with the lycra goes the impulse to bore everyone in the office as if they're the only people ever to partake in a sport, often scoffing at those who do not join them, not realising that we're not joining them because our bodies creek and groan from, you know, being serious about sport when we were younger.