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From: G-S on 26 Mar 2010 03:34 CrazyCam wrote: > > Look at the push bike riders and the motorcycle riders. > > Pay attention when you do so. > The motorcyclists around here all wear either wear black leather or some dark colour (black/grey/dark blue) cordura jacket either with black leather pants or black or blue jeans (mostly kevlar but not exclusivly). The exception is a few women who have pink panels on their black cordura jackets (Jodz amongst that lot). The push bike riders tend to be mostly alternative lifestyle people and wear what could loosely be called 'hippy' clothes. There is a very small group of racing push bike club members who ride around the area but they are only a small percentage of total numbers. OK I've looked... what's your point? G-S
From: G-S on 26 Mar 2010 03:38 Zebee Johnstone wrote: > Zebee > - proud owner of a welded mail shirt, fully articulated finger > gauntlets with sliding rivets, a burgonet helm with bevor and > moving visor, a longsword, two rapiers, and a schiavona arming > sword. My inner 13yo is ecstatic! My inner 13yo is jealous :) G-S
From: Andrew on 26 Mar 2010 04:05 On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:34:48 +1100, G-S wrote: > CrazyCam wrote: >> >> Look at the push bike riders and the motorcycle riders. >> >> Pay attention when you do so. >> >> > The motorcyclists around here all wear either wear black leather or some > dark colour (black/grey/dark blue) cordura jacket either with black > leather pants or black or blue jeans (mostly kevlar but not exclusivly). > > The exception is a few women who have pink panels on their black cordura > jackets (Jodz amongst that lot). > > The push bike riders tend to be mostly alternative lifestyle people and > wear what could loosely be called 'hippy' clothes. > > There is a very small group of racing push bike club members who ride > around the area but they are only a small percentage of total numbers. > > OK I've looked... what's your point? > > > > G-S Second that. I was making the following point: When did men start to stop peacocking? Probably around 1850, not 100 years earlier, as JL thought. I could have added: when did they start up again? Prolly around 1950 and as a reaction to being in a real uniform. Paisley in the '60s was more a guy thing. Round here there's enough cyclists that the municipal services people refer to the specially marked lanes as 'Lycra Lanes'. I've only been to Pie In The Sky once but on that occasion all the motorcyclists were exactly as G-S describes (including me). I don't regard the protective gear I wear as showing off. -- Regards Andrew
From: Andrew on 26 Mar 2010 04:11 On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:19:22 +1100, F Murtz wrote: > Andrew wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:55:26 +1100, F Murtz wrote: >> >>> OT. does a sysadmin know how to use smileys with sea monkey? cause I >>> don't and I would like to. >> >> http://seamonkey.ilias.ca/mailnewsfaq/Emoticons >> > Yes, but how to use the little non ascii figures, others seem to be able > to do it. I'm with LC on this - why would you want to? -- Regards Andrew
From: Zebee Johnstone on 26 Mar 2010 04:34
In aus.motorcycles on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 08:05:35 GMT Andrew <amckNOSPAM3047(a)telNOSPAMstra.com> wrote: > > Round here there's enough cyclists that the municipal services people > refer to the specially marked lanes as 'Lycra Lanes'. I've only been to > Pie In The Sky once but on that occasion all the motorcyclists were > exactly as G-S describes (including me). I don't regard the protective > gear I wear as showing off. Cyclists don't regard what they wear as such either. The subcultures wear the stuff they do for a reason, and can justify it quite well. Cyclists wearing bright coloured jerseys or shorts are wearing them for the same reason you see people in Dainese and Alpine Star racerep leathers: signaling their part in the subculture. And both are signalling the same: "I do the fast stuff, see I am like a racer" Not everyone wishes to signal it in that way. Plenty do, else the stuff wouldn't be all over the place. Plenty of men will wear bright clothing to signal things they want people to know. What they are signalling may make no sense to people not of that culture, and subgroups within the culture might be actively opposed to the signal, thinking it "wannabe" or similar. Humans is complex beasts. Zebee |