Broctoon

Several years ago, I was in the middle of a long relay race when something fun happened. As a teammate and I started out from one of the exchange points, we met two nice ladies that he knew--not close friends, but I think he'd ridden with one of them before. We agreed to do that leg of the race together. I was pleased to find myself right behind one or the other of them at various times over the next few hours, and let's just say I did not find it hard to stay motivated.

After we finished, they thanked us, shook hands, etc. and everyone returned to their respective sag vehicles. For a parting shot, one of the ladies said something about how much she enjoyed riding behind us and that it wasn't just for the draft, but she liked the view. We said, "Au contraire--thank you!" or maybe just "Ditto!" or something. Apparently, that chance encounter was a win-win.

Chandne

One younger woman screamed out "you have a nice butt" when I passed her on a bike path in Breckenridge. last year. I felt kinda sexy that day. Also, sometimes when I wear Rapha, I feel sexy for a few minutes. That's about it,.

AlgarveCycling

When I was younger I never thought about being 'sexy' as a cyclist - I was focussed upon racing and being an athlete. It never really crossed my mind.

However, nowadays, I can't deny I do feel 'confident' and 'good' about myself in that regard while out on the bike. I think it is mainly because I got pretty fat in my off-bike years, a sedentary obese guy for a decade and I did look like - and was - a middle-aged lump with an overflowing belly; far removed from being 'sexy'.

Now, in my 50's, fit again, I look around me and see I'm in pretty great shape for my age. I don't have my six-pack anymore, that's decades gone, I am carrying a bit extra for competition purposes too, but with a BMI of 23 I'm fairly trim for my build and muscular. I also have a good tan from living in a year-round warm region. The up-shot is I do sometimes get nice comments from ladies, especially those my own age - mostly wishing their own husbands would get off their butts and lose some weight!

So, yeah, I do kinda feel 'sexy' sometimes lately when I see I'm noticed and get a smile or an ego-lifting comment. I'd be lying if I said I didn't.

roadsnakes

SE

Yes, True.

BUT

I`m pushing 70, and sometimes when it`s really hot wearing my bike shorts and I`m drenched with sweat, OR when it`s 15degrees and I wearing my winter cycling tights, I come across a babe in a car at a stoplight.
Driving the car is her husband or boy friend.
He`s smoking a cigarette, and has a big pot belly.
She looks at me, then at him.
At that point,......................... for a brief couple of seconds,........................ I feel sexy!

Mojo31

Lol. You're only fooling yourself!

She's really looking at the spat of sealant on your rear end from that last puncture, and wondering why in the hell you don't go home and change.

Sexy ends at age 30, maybe 40 in exceptional cases. After that it's all smoke and mirrors.

Paul Barnard

I had a very good ride from New Smyrna Beach to the end of the road at a National Park...I forget the name. I can see me getting lost inside myself there. It was quiet and beautiful and serene. An unclouded mind is critical to finding zen.

Cougrrcj

My 12.5- mile commute takes me past a local community college...

One morning a year or so ago, I was stopped at the traffic light at one end of the campus and some cute young little thing had pulled up in a car next to me - she yelled out "Nice legs!" whereupon I turned my gray/white mustachioed faced to her and said "Thanks". I smiled the remaining three miles of my commute..... Made my day, for sure!!!!

roadsnakes

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Mojo31

Mine has been burst for a long time. Lol.

prj71

I'm 49. My girlfriend tells me I'm extremely sexy when I do mountain bike races. She says it turns her on to watch me race.

Broctoon

Hey, she tells me that too!

Cougrrcj

I've been doomed (deemed UNsexy) for over 30 years already... Back in January of 1991, my two-years-younger sister had our parent's first grandchild... Coincidentally, I had just gotten a camcorder for Christmas - so I figured we (my wife and self) would go to the hospital to take some video so we could send it to our parents who were then 'snowbirds' living out-of-state. Wife and I got to the hospital just minutes after the niece was born. Wife and I were in the 'recovery suite' waiting for Sister and baby. The staff wheels my sister in, and a nurse is walking behind, carrying the baby. She asked if 'Grandma and Grandpa want to hold the baby'. Ummmm... I was all of 32, wife was 33, sister was 30, and her hubby was 32 (just two weeks from 33) I was a USPS walking mail carrier back then, so I grew a full beard to keep my face warm in the Cleveland winters... It had a bit of gray in it, but c'mon! Wife's hair was frosted...

One other time that winter, I was in a different hospital's cafeteria line (wife was going through a procedure).. I added my items up in my head as I head to the cashier - where I got a different total. OK, maybe I added wrong. I get to a vacant table and look at my receipt -- I got a 15% 'Senior Citizen' discount... again, this is at age 32!

After these incidents, I quit growing beards in the wintertime, and the wife quit frosting her hair.

Fast Forward 18 years -- To when I was 50 -- I had volunteered to be Santa Claus for the housing development on my mail route - they were going to drive me around in a minivan to deliver toys to the kiddies... So I started growing a beard the day after Halloween. Here's a pic of me at Christmas just seven weeks later... Yes, that is my real beard, white as snow!....


Well, at least I can laugh at myself...

wolfchild

What's sexy is subject to private interpretation....What may appear sexy to one person may be absolutely abhorrent and disgusting to another

livedarklions

You had to bring up fetish sites, didn't you?

wolfchild

OP started it and I think it's very strange to use the word sexy to describe cycling.. .To me there is nothing sexy about cycling but it sounds like few posters here have a fetish for spandex and shaved legs.

ThermionicScott 

The Fun Police have arrived!

chephy

Lol, this has nothing to do with spandex.


Way back when one of my math profs referred to 3D modelling graphs as sexy. And it had nothing to do with the way their curves were shaped.


I've never done racing or mountain biking. But I've done a little bit of bike couriering and a lot of urban cycling. So yeah, this is my jam, and that's when I feel sexy in the way OP is describing. Like, maybe it's a sweltering July afternoon, and crowds of sweaty bodies jostling along the too-narrow sidewalks are spilling over into the gridlocked streets. A gang of Harley riders are angrily gunning their engines, cars are honking, a massive red hull of a streetcar is slowly creeping forward. Somehow the scene is of a total standstill and a swirling chaos at the same time. And there I am in the midst of it all - narrow, nimble, very delicately vulnerable yet somehow untouchable - weaving through the gaps in the stretched out lines of hot metal hunks and the swarms of sticky human flesh, slicing through the heavy, clogged afternoon streets with the speed and freedom that's inaccessible to anyone else around save for a few fellow riders. I know the tangled bundle of streetcar tracks at Queen and Spadina has been tossed onto the pavement as if in an attempt to wedge my front wheel, I know the red polo shirt guy is about to step off the curb without looking. I am wary of gaps too wide, too inviting; of cars without turn signals on that give off every impression that their intent is to proceed straight through; of car doors that swing wide open without so much as a half-a-second warning. My apparent recklessness is in fact caution wrapped in skill, a dozen mini-calculations running through my head at every moment, automatically and almost without my awareness, while my conscious attention is free to wander and take in the sights and sounds. I am probably listening to music and mouthing the lyrics. I am at my most relaxed and most concentrated. It's flow and it's glorious, almost orgasmic.


Of course now that I typed the above I am going to forget to unclip at the next red light I encounter.

livedarklions

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Yes, we have noted this is the second thread where you have found it necessary to frantically tell people how unattractive you find shaved male legs. You came back to this thread a second time just to do it again. Still panicking much?

I find lots of stuff unattractive, but I can't imagine wanting to tell people about any of them over and over again.

livedarklions

Standing ovation. I know exactly what you are talking about. The funny thing about using the word sexy to me is that when I've been in that state, I'm generally so sweaty as to be somewhat repellant up close.

chephy

I'm lucky in that I personally don't sweat.

But yeah, this kind of sexy is not really about sex per se.

indyfabz

Never seen the film Bad Santa? Some think that look is hot.

Koyote

I forget what year that came out - I think it was 2003. I saw the movie with a couple friends on Christmas day. Perfect.

livedarklions

We know, we know, you glow.

I remember well that sense of nearly automatic chaos control in urban riding I experienced as a young man. At 60, I'm afraid my sense of mortality is a bit too acute to be as cavalier about it. My skills haven't deteriorated, but I do have to more consciously focus on what I'm doing. I also think the rise of the SUV makes the streets feel somewhat different than they did when I was young.

Paul Barnard

I figured a few people would get hung up on that word. I had no idea so many lacked the reading comprehension skills to understand the post.

chephy

Glisten, maybe?

Perhaps what you have gained is wisdom.

And yeah, screw SUVs.