You are wearing the wrong socks.
10-10-17, 04:33 PM
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How come nobody mentions the '70s 'Tube socks'. You know, those over-the-calf white socks with the three colored stripes at the top?
I wore those a bunch back then - and so did a lot of other cyclists!
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I wore those a bunch back then - and so did a lot of other cyclists!
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10-10-17, 06:22 PM
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Yup!, felt like the coolest kid when my dad bought me my first pairs of Wigwam tube socks back in the 70's! You weren't cool in zgradeschool if you did not have tube socks, especially during PE....
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10-10-17, 09:23 PM
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I hated tube socks. What a stupid idea. And over the calf socks are too tight!
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10-11-17, 08:39 AM
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Three stripes on your cycling shoes was also cool in the 1970s because of the sponsorship deal Eddy Merckx had with Adidas.
10-11-17, 10:23 AM
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Like everyone else at the time, for bike riding I'd wear a pair of those socks, basketball shorts, and a baseball T-shirt on bike rides. That's what I wore till I ran into a local bike club member on a rural road a long way out of town. Soon after I showed up for the Sunday ride with the local VC, and that was the end of that...
Back to the white socks rule - I also recall black socks were so uncool at the time it didn't really take much convincing to get people not to wear them - even without the USCF rule. If you bought cycling socks at the LBS, they came in white, and that was that. No one really gave it a second thought.
Anyhow that was then and this is now. I kinda dig all the silly socks available now. That's one thing that's gotten cooler.
10-11-17, 06:05 PM
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To be clear, for the record: I do not wear the wrong socks. I wear my own socks. If I wore my wife's socks, that would be the wrong socks, and she might be annoyed, and I really hate it when that happens. So no, I do not wear the wrong socks. Been there, done that, and it weren't pretty, ain't doing it again, no sir, not me. 
10-11-17, 07:03 PM
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- Dayumm, can't get much more aero than that with a conventional bike and bars! Eddy was and is my hero!
- I notice how they put the stripes near the heel, so they won't be masked by the toeclip straps. All other Adidas I have ever seen have the stripes roughly between the "balls of the foot" (if that's the right terminology), and the instep.
10-11-17, 07:24 PM
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In the seventies, the number of riders in pro kit attire was very small. We just rode in the clothes we were wearing. Which might well include a pair of Adidas (although I had the cheaper Pumas, made by Adi's brother), but we generally wore them without socks of any type.
10-11-17, 08:43 PM
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10-12-17, 09:46 AM
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10-12-17, 09:50 AM
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Glad those days are gone!
10-12-17, 03:05 PM
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This is why baseball players wore stirrups for years. The dye in the colored socks could cause poisoning if you got spiked and sweat leached the dye into open wounds, so they wore colored stirrups over white socks to absorb the sweat and blood and dye.
10-12-17, 05:52 PM
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Have three versions, all leather, when they went to mostly plastic and the third version with the two part adjustable cleat. The last version I finally had some trouble with as the upper to sole attachment should have had more overlap.
But it did take 20 years and the wear out two sets of cleats.
Adidas "lasts" just replicate my feet well.
10-12-17, 06:38 PM
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To be clear, for the record: I do not wear the wrong socks. I wear my own socks. If I wore my wife's socks, that would be the wrong socks, and she might be annoyed, and I really hate it when that happens. So no, I do not wear the wrong socks. Been there, done that, and it weren't pretty, ain't doing it again, no sir, not me.
10-12-17, 06:58 PM
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10-13-17, 06:53 AM
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10-13-17, 12:26 PM
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Picky, picky. His socks are dorky enough.
10-13-17, 02:03 PM
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