[Closed] Jesus wept: Roadie and colour co-ordination

going to ?

Personalised jersey eh? 😉

Keep the bib shorts as etxeondos tag line is, aptly enough, 'special cycling'

I'm going to look stoopid.

Just looked like a massive milky white arse

I think it'll look awesome... Sort of in the same way that a big smurf on a bike might look awesome. Hope you have a white helmet...

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O!!!M!!!!G!!!!! Hora in Lycra?!!!!!

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BLUE LYCRA?!!!!!

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My Mrs has a liking for that colour Hora.
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Grips, cages, lid and jacket so far..it's a slippy slope mate.
Bontrager for the bike bits, Giro for the lid.

And we'll say no more about it.

How's the bike?

Very German!

The Etxeondo Dicolor's bib shorts look a bargain at 45. I guess the price makes up for the 'colour'.

My first proper shorts (apart from the Endura Singletrack inserts shorts I'm currently riding on my road bike).

Grips, cages, lid and jacket so far..it's a slippy slope mate.

Erm, (theres no easy way to say this...)

I've also got this fitted

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Although I do have black tape, black bars all kit black.

Jesus wept.

Should have got:

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Photos or it didn't happen.

pics or it didn't happen.

Images or it don't happens

Good call Jamie, I can just put this br'an one on the mountain bike

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I disagree - the brown could set the look off nicely.

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The only circumstance, the ONLY, where light blue lycra shorts would be acceptable is if you are contractually obliged to wear them by your proteam sponsor.

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Don't forget the fists of power..

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look better with silver post/stem, white bars/tape

Why not pair with a nice smart-casual outfit for post-ride activities?

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light blue lycra shorts would be acceptable is if you are contractually obliged to wear them by your proteam sponsor.

slippery slope indeed, brown saddle was a bad move - now even I'm thinking you need to get brown tape. Of course a better idea would be sticking a black saddle back on and ignoring all colour co-ordination in future and just ride the ruddy thing.

Could be worse Hora - you could be Scottish

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Black Bar tape and a brown saddle?
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You need a blue helmet.

Sorry, but you need to go further - helmet needs to be white with matching white shoes with the blue outfit I reckon. I think anything but black shorts are wrong, even from a colour matching perspective, black leaves black helmet/shoe/sock option even with light colours.

proteam sponsor.
or they were ridiculously cheap, £45 isn't cheap enough IMO.

I thought about what might be cheap enough, and then I thought that if these shorts ever seemed cheap enough you probably have other more pressing concerns than riding a bike.

It's a road bike. A couple of hours grinding around dull B-roads is likely to give you a blue helmet isn't it?

The bibs can go back. Priest-black it is.

Let's hope the brown doesn't come out of the saddle!!

Hora earlier.
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Sweet Lord Beefy, did you have that image on hand just for such a thread? 😯

I think I saw a few guys aiming for that crown yesterday ahead of Le tour in Cambridge village, if you are a little rounder in the middle, do you need to demonstrate it with Lycra?

Hora, stick with the blue, start on the Halgfos (or whatever their name is) monochrome range 🙂

They are all different blues 🙁

I think I saw a few guys aiming for that crown yesterday ahead of Le tour in Cambridge village

Sheffield on Sunday had some of the most shocking examples of the 'burst black pudding' look I've ever seen. More oddly mis-shaped man vegetables squashed into too-tight lycra than you could shake a cattle prod at!

Clearly a lot of roadies don't possess either mirrors, or a partner who doesn't have the honesty to point at them and dissolve into mocking hysterics 😯

GrahamS - Member

great minds think alike - at the same time too... Isn't it funny that the blues have been pushed really heavily in one photo and not the other?

Howies black bib shorts ok?

Howies black bib shorts ok?

Yes.

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This would look good when paired with some black shorts
White lid as well , white Oakleys with green iridium lenses
Avoid the stealth Black /Black /Sky look, too invisible in the summer sun when trees shade the road and drivers do not remove their sunnies

How do those Exteondo bibs compare to mid range Sportful or higher end DHB stuff?

Can I be the first to mention your saddle angle WTF are you trying to do???

Can I be the first to mention your saddle angle WTF are you trying to do???

Ah, c'mon this is Hora your'e talking about...

Can I be the first to mention your saddle angle

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/oh-no-i-bought-the-wrong-the-wrong-bike-size/page/4

Although to be fair, them charge scoops always look like they're tilted forward

oh Natrix there is a whole different thread on this bike and it's set up (please don't resurrect it 🙂 )

Exteondo bibs are very good, as are santini but as with saddles, different people prefer different pad shapes - stick to black bibs, it's safest but I agree that all black isn't great

I can't proffer advice really though, I buy strictly on bargainness and I look like a right colourvomit some days ! I've got a team issue geocatolli jersey that has just about every inch covered in sponsors, proper lairy...

I must have spent too long in Spain, nothing wrong with matching colours 🙂

The black+red helmet would have to go, though.

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from here http://fatladattheback.com/

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Can I be the first to mention your saddle angle WTF are you trying to do???

To be fair, it has to angled that way, for Hora to be able to insert himself on the bike.

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No you can't. You can join the queue like the rest of us

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/oh-no-i-bought-the-wrong-the-wrong-bike-size/page/4

Heh...I forgot about that...

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The saddle is c1degree from bang on. Trust me. The scoop (if viewed from an angle dips in the middle and rises at the rear and the nose.

ads678 - Member
You need a blue helmet.

Winters on the way....