I Forgot To Wear The Uniform

Yesterday was the annual Fun Haters Ride that is very popular with the people I like to ride with.  Mary and I caught up with our "team" and many friends and some people that we have not seen or communicated with in decades.  Since this was a party ride we did not dress up for a 30 or 60 or greater mile ride.  We wore what we put on in the morning.

Our first stop was a mere mile form our home.  Dora had us meet her and her friend at Truman's the new Full Court Press KC themed establishment next door to Mad Meatball in the former location of Margarita's Mexican Restaurant (RIP).  After a hearty lunch of buffalo wings, burgers and pizza we rolled north to the Triangle Tap about 5 or 6 miles north of our location.  There we caught DJ Chop Shop's set of mostly 80's tracks and the start of the ride.  The place was crowded!  Good times.

However, the same question kept coming up.  "Did you bike here, those are not bicycling clothes?'  Most of the people asking are what known as baggers whom ride loaded touring bicycles with coolers full of beer and rarely wear cycling jerseys.  Hi-viz yellow seemed to be the color of the day it seemed but that color stands out.  Other than that the dress code is lax in terms of cycling.  Well, black leggings or tights are the standard.  Mary and wore blue jeans.  I wore a hoodie.  Since the bike I rode had flat pedals I wore sneakers instead of cycling shoes.

Yeah, I rode.  14 miles.  No need to dress like it was the TdF.

Not Mary.  this is Ray, an friend from college that I have not seen for decades.  But this is how I dressed to ride a single speed for 14 miles.