I was going to poke fun at the OP for proverbial brick throwing, but then I decided to Google what this PAS Normal stuff was all about. Holy crap, that stuff is expensive...but undoubtedly necessarily attire, when you're connecting coffee shops, on your crabon S-Works or Madone SLR whatever. For me, I'm a cheap %@$%(with a taste for only moderately expensive crabon bikes,) so I just wear whatever's affordable or free. In my case, that's generally mid to high end bibs that were on sale and Black Bibs jerseys. I do have some cheap bibs, I save those for short track XC/dirt crit style races. I figure a cheap bib is good enough for a short race, and I won't cry over it if I rip it in a crash.