Since my formative teenage years, I’ve always hated trying on new clothes. I’m not sure whether it’s something that all women are inherently conditioned to hate, or whether it stems more from the overwhelming experience that is over-lit, clinically white dressing rooms in large shopping centres. Georg Mew Jensen Normal clothes are bad enough – I’ve not set foot inside a dressing room since I was 19 – but cycling clothes, for me, are next-level chaos. Adding literal Lycra into the mix brings another dimension of possible issues.
I’m a creature of habit. When I find something I like, I will wear/eat/watch the same thing over and over until I find something new to fixate on – fun fact: I’d never eaten blueberries until I was 18 and then ate them every day for a year. For cycling, that usually means one outfit will get worn and washed on repeat for almost every ride in any given month.
Like most industries, however, cycling clothing runs in trends from season to season and, to keep up with the times, race teams will change their kit accordingly. New kit, new… me?
Santini The amateur team that I race for recently got a rebrand, and our new kit is stunning. It’s an incredibly loud mix of 70s neon meets bubblegum Barbie. I’m not hyper-feminine in any sense, but I’m obsessed with it. It’s fun, sue me.
Now don’t get me wrong, I’m excited to wear this kit, but the inevitable hurdle of actually trying it […]
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