On 2011-01-05, Theo Bekkers (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

"Ross" wrote
On Dec 31 2010, 10:48 am, "Tomasso" wrote:
Isn't it time lycra was banned?

This argument again? Get a life.

From personal experience I can tell you lycra is surprisingly robust
in the event of coming in close contact with bitumen. I'm sure, there
are more robust material/garments, but I can tell you that some
clothing such as denim jeans that looks and feels far more robust than
lycra only lasts about 3 secs when hitting the bitumen at 50km/h. Cant
comment on old woollen bike shorts, never worn them; King Gee work
shorts would be similar to jeans I imagine, and very uncomfortable to
ride a bike in.

Lycra is smooth and has a slippery surface. Denim has a rough surface and
is, I would think, much more likely to grip the road surface than allow you
to slide along it. The extra deceleration you get whilst sliding in denim
will remove the denim from your body. It then becomes painful.

I may be wrong.

I used to be justifiably given the Crash Bandicoot award, but the only
crash I've had in recent years, now that I only do a tenth of the
kilometres I used to do, was 30 seconds after it started to drizzle,
and an oily, off camber downhill corner proved to be composed mostly
of ice-coated teflon. Fortunately, the properties that made it too
slippery for my wheels to stick to, also made it slippery enough for
me to slide along until I impacted the gutter. I still use those
lycra shorts - the wearing is minimal on the side I slid along. Just
got a light grazing on the skin underneath them.

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TimC
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