i'm just a guy. a guy who prefers wearing old shorts, t-shirts, and sandals,
when i'm not wearing cycling clothes--bib shorts, jersey and shoes and socks. i don't really know what's it's like to have that instinctive gut for buying bags full of designer shit.
if i spend more than a hundred bucks for clothing, it had better be something i can ride in, and it should last for years.
last winter, i bought new cycling shoes--time rx something, e or s, nashbar, on sale, spent about 80 or 90 per pair, bought two pair, and saved over $100 per pair. last pair of road shoes i had i got from ordinary bike shop, in maybe 1991 or so. good shoes. my cross shoes i bought at rassy's in fall 2000. still work just fine.
so when i read and hear about folks spending $150,000 for clothing--for one ditz from alaska, i kinda lose my shit. wtf? one hundred and fifty fucking thousand dollars in two months? for HER? but then i read this and realized that 150 k is nothing, when the queen bee spent 300K for HER convention attire ONE EVENING.
god help us all.
when i'm not wearing cycling clothes--bib shorts, jersey and shoes and socks. i don't really know what's it's like to have that instinctive gut for buying bags full of designer shit.
if i spend more than a hundred bucks for clothing, it had better be something i can ride in, and it should last for years.
last winter, i bought new cycling shoes--time rx something, e or s, nashbar, on sale, spent about 80 or 90 per pair, bought two pair, and saved over $100 per pair. last pair of road shoes i had i got from ordinary bike shop, in maybe 1991 or so. good shoes. my cross shoes i bought at rassy's in fall 2000. still work just fine.
so when i read and hear about folks spending $150,000 for clothing--for one ditz from alaska, i kinda lose my shit. wtf? one hundred and fifty fucking thousand dollars in two months? for HER? but then i read this and realized that 150 k is nothing, when the queen bee spent 300K for HER convention attire ONE EVENING.
god help us all.
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