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From: Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com>
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on industrial design
Date: 3 May 2025 14:24:45 GMT
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Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 5/2/2025 2:28 AM, Wolfgang Strobl wrote:
>> Am Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:17:50 -0400 schrieb Frank Krygowski
>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>:
>> 
>>> These rides make up the bulk of annual riding for almost all members of
>>> our club. The group on this ride were almost all retirees, and it seems
>>> to be their main form of recreation. I'm unusual in that I have other
>>> outdoor activities I also do regularly.
>> 
>> There are bicycle clubs in Germany, almost all of them members of the
>> national biycle club and bound to its rules
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Cycling_Federation>
>> ("Bund Deutscher Radfahrer", BDR), a member of the UCI.
>> 
>> When our children where young, we considered getting a club membership
>> in a local club for them. We lost interest when we where told about a
>> strict helmet law: nor helmet, no rides - at a time when only the very
>> small minority of organzized bicyclists in Germany and other European
>> countries used bicycle helmets.
> I wonder if that was before or after the UCI rule mandating helmets. Our 
> club still has no rule mandating helmets on normal rides; but I'm one of 
> very few who will attend a ride without the special hat.
> 
> Cycling attire is very much a fashion thing! There's certainly benefit 
> to comfortable riding shorts, aero jerseys etc. for fast or long rides. 
> But the other day, one member led a leisurely 15 mile ride followed by a 
> wildflower walk in our nature preserve. I showed up in normal 
> lightweight slacks and shirt, normal shoes, as I'd wear to ride to do 
> some shopping, visit a friend, etc. Everyone else was attired as if to 
> ride 75 miles.
> 
> 
Rather depends on how leisure it was even a fairly leisurely pace aka
commuting my work has no showers etc, still makes sense for cycling shorts
I found, and related is civilian clothes do wear out remarkably quickly
certainly cotton shorts I found barely lasted the summer just commuting a
few days a week.

Plus for number of folks it’s just what they are used to!

Roger Merriman