offthepace

...and with my bike over my shoulder. This should be fun. I'll give you a report when I get back-well if people even care. It should be fun if I have to take the elevator with somebody down all seven floors.

deanp

How goofy a person looks in cycling gear is directly proporational to your distance from your bike. Since you will be carrying and riding your bike, you're OK.

merider1

I care. I'd love to hear, and if you can get someone to take a pic, please do and post. Oh, and be safe and have fun.

jschen

I would give you a funny look since I usually roll my bike when I'm not riding it rather than carrying the thing. (Except when the elevators are down and I have to take the stairs.)

Anyway, have fun, and let us know how it goes.

DaveSANYYZ

Are you worried about getting complaints of making the floor muddy?

For me I roll my bike partially in early mornings by lifting the rear wheel off the ground. I've bumped into a few cyclists and non-cyclists in the elevators of my rental apt with my bike and they all seem fine.

Kale

I don't think you'll get too many strange looks. I go out with the works (gloves, helmet, underarmor shirt, and bike shorts [under gym shorts]) and I don't get any weird looks. I'm too busy navigating traffic, anyway, to notice if anyone is making fun of me

Brian Sorrell

Just don't wipe out in front of a crowd while on your way to office hours to keep an appointment with a student who's having trouble writing his first paper. You get really funny looks wandering the halls of academia covered in blood. I mean, that was my experience.....

ovoleg

lol dude why do you worry? stop being a wuss

OkComputer

I hope the elevator is crowded and you have to bike across the campus to get where you're going. Good luck!

p.s. Be safe, they will be lOOking at you!

ronjon10

They're not going to care, but they're going to check out the package.

Cyclon

I know! offthepace is training for cyclocross hence the holding the bike over the shoulders. Now all that needs to be in place are obstacles to hop over.

merider1

HUh? What? Did I hear...package?

LCI_Brian

Freshman year in college, about twenty years ago, my neighbors in the next dorm room brought in matching purple Bianchi road bikes on moving in day. I didn't ride at the time and thought they were gay. First impressions were wrong. We all ended up becoming good friends.

SunFlower

i was kinda nervous the first time i went into public wearing my spandex riding pants. however, i realized that junior high was over 16 years ago and i need to grow up, lol.

urbanknight

You'll get a few looks, but I doubt you'll be judged. Most people in college accept the fact that people are different. I barely even got any looks when I walked from my car to class in a kilt for a presentation on Celtic folk music. Then again, all I had to do was walk through the parking lot and the drama building.

LCI Brian, are you saying that you would not have been their friends if they turned out to be gay?

LCI_Brian

Oh, no, I didn't mean to imply that. I just meant that as a non-cyclist seeing the matching bikes, and later with them in full matching kit, gave me a certain impression which turned out not to be true. Later I found out that they were both locals, but lived in the dorms anyway, and they rode with the same club.

offthepace

Well it was definitely funny. The reason I carry my bike over my shoulder? Wel ltoday is vacuuming day and seeing as they had just vacuumed my floor, I felt guilty, and I'm glad I did. They finished up vacuumin just as I left the room and the maid (I can't believe we have a maid)vwas still there.
Nothing special. When I was walking got a bunch of strange looks, then again, a lot of people were still getting up. I was up at 6. Once I was on my bike, I got a ton of "stupid cyclist" looks. So nothing but the usual. Luckily my campus is extremely bike friendly so everybody has a beach cruiser. And what's with dining commons not opening for breakfast until 7:15? I have two classes at 8 kind of off campus, and they don't have a great supply of bike racks so I'm not sure I'm going to ride my beater bike there (Apparently they're not fond of people locking bikes to poles). And all the cereal they have is frosted or super sugarized. At least they have non and low fat milk. I get attached to bikes quickly I guess. Plus it has a saddle I used to use on it...

As for the ride--Santa Barbara is awesome. And I only had time for a 20 mile cruise because I had a department meeting to attend. Oh yeah, I'm loving my single. A few days in i'm already hearing "I like my roomate, he's cool and all, but...so I want a single" Off to some activitie. Sorry for the uninteresting post but nothing interesting happened except forf thinking fo a split second that my beater bike was stolen.

urbanknight

Cool, but you know I was pulling your chain right?

Cyclon

A folding bike is an option. I even rode my folding bike instead of my fullsized bike today

ovoleg

dont listen to these wussies, everyone will think you're gay for wearing spandex...All the hot chics will come and try to "convert" you.

This sh****T is a good deal, wear it more often. Trust me this isn't high school

urbanknight

He's right. Do you know how many women strike up a conversation with me when I'm wearing this shirt?

If only I knew that little trick when I was single.
It would be a little hypocritical to use that shirt to get laid, though.

F = MA

what school, offthepace?

ronjon10

Only if they like the package

merider1

Knock that off! No need to apologize, just post away if you want and we'll decide if it's interesting or not. Good job! And the more you ride, the less looks you'll get because you won't even notice if you get any.

merider1

Oh, brother. Let me guess, you wear your spandex to class? You must be getting laid between subjects.