Looking back with Ed: Road cycling kit has changed a lot in the last 50 years – as Ed Hood reminds us what passed for “de rigueur” gear in shoes, jerseys, shorts, helmets, glasses and more. Keep track of how many of these you actually wore – reader with the best story wins a pair of PEZ socks. Ed and his gang back in the day Recently someone posted some Scottish race results from 1973 on social media; and there I was in some 25 mile time trial on the Kippen Flats course at Stirling. Then it struck me, 1973 – 50 years ago, that’s half a century. How did that happen? Pure class
I thought it might be good to look at what those 50 years have meant to our sport, let’s start with what a rider wears, we’ll deal with the bicycles in a piece yet to come:
Shoes: Always black leather, no logos, it was later in the 70’s before we got Colnago shamrocks but we did have Adidas stripes – and it was much later before we got the orange, pink, yellow jobs we do now. Shoe plates – ‘cleats’ our North American friends call them were nailed on, they fitted into the rear pedal plate in those days of toe clips and straps – it was the 80’s before clipless came along. Amateurs like me often got the positioning wrong and ended up with soles which looked like they’d been hit with a shotgun […]
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