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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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Feb 24, 2008 - 08:06pm PT
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Check 'em out
Pink cadillac convertibles, parrots with shades and hawain shirts!
And I can still wear'em!
But I don't...
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bob d'antonio
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Feb 24, 2008 - 08:15pm PT
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Geno...is it Mark R??
Laura looks lovely.
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radair
climber
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Feb 24, 2008 - 08:20pm PT
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El Cap, November 1985; and "Climber Bob" Parrott taking a whipper off Liquid Sky at Cathedral Ledge, NH, same era.
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Geno
Trad climber
Reston, VA
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Feb 25, 2008 - 06:20am PT
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Bobby, Affirmative. I have other great shots of him in tights. Maybe I'll post them later.
Jaybro, Those are really funny. Put em on!
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Feb 25, 2008 - 10:39am PT
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Jaybro... maybe you should break those out for Wide Wednesday this week! You'd make Gary blush!
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Feb 25, 2008 - 01:12pm PT
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We made and sold Lycra tights, along with chalk bags, butt bags, etc., back in the early-middle '80s. We bought most of the material at a huge fabric place in San Bernardino. Nomad at Idyllwild sold some for us. I think Cilley hawked a few pair. I think I still have a few pair in various patterns left over, but I suspect that most of the ST crowd have somewhat different proportions than they did bitd, so I'm not planning an Ebay auction.
In terms of functionality, they were far better for climbing than anything before or since, w. the obvious exception of places with really rough rock or wide routes where you wanted to bury your knee. Funny, that stuff is still regular gear for road riding and even some mountain biking. But if climbing were really about functionality and not style, Lycra would still be the standard for sport and comps.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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Feb 25, 2008 - 01:12pm PT
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hahaha Man, oh man, that stuff is ghey, dudes! hahahaha
My climbing partner, Blaine, has some shots of himself in tights. I tease him endlessly about those things!
Love the Flock o' Seagulls hair there, Jerry! hahaha
We all have some really bad pics of ourselves from back in the day, don't we? We thought we were some cool mofo's rockin' those fashions then, however!
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marty(r)
climber
beneath the valley of ultravegans
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Feb 25, 2008 - 02:35pm PT
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Lycra's bad, but so are paint-splashed wrestler's pants with the elastic waist. Ho-Man!
Clinton never wore lycra:
Bootsie's another story...
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Feb 25, 2008 - 06:30pm PT
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I wore lycra for fashion. It worked for this image . . .
photo: glenn simpson/realm of light (cheap scan)
But I have to admit it did feel sexy, and of course I wore them butt naked!
Lycra for images should come back. The color is great, and on certain climbers it sure looks damn good.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno, CA
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Feb 25, 2008 - 06:33pm PT
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HAHAHA Check out those pants George is rockin'!!! Suwheet!
Climbers in lycra are kinda like the white pimps of the climbing world... You guys should get big-brimmed hats with matching fur, Sport a gold-tipped cane on your way to the crag, etc.... =)
Maybe JB can craft up some platform climbing shoes! Russ can hook you's guys up with some killer fur!
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Feb 25, 2008 - 08:30pm PT
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Actually, Lycra was WAY less Village People than the outfit that it started to replace: In SoCal before Lycra, all the men wore very short shorts with a swami but WITHOUT underwear. For many of us, it provided an additional incentive to lead rather than belay. When Lycra came along, it actually did a lot for masculine modesty at the crag.
Some folks hated Lycra partly because of the colors-- middle-class white guys in the US wear nothing except brown, grey, black, drab green or navy blue-- but mostly because it was associated with hangdogging, rap bolting, and France.
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Crimpergirl
Social climber
St. Looney
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Feb 26, 2008 - 07:43am PT
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Sounds like a new thread is in order. I've seen those photos of those SHORT shorts that men used to wear. Plus, in the gym in DC, this one older guy still wore those tiny split-up-the-side running shorts to climb. Talk about corneal burns. Thank God for lycra!
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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Feb 26, 2008 - 10:44am PT
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LOL Totally funny post KLK.^^^
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tolman_paul
Trad climber
Anchorage, AK
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Feb 27, 2008 - 01:37pm PT
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I was an impressionable teenager, with no sense of fashion.
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho
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Feb 27, 2008 - 01:47pm PT
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Cyclists are still wearing lycra. Bad bad bad color choice though.
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Ihateplastic
Trad climber
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Feb 27, 2008 - 04:33pm PT
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I can't believe I am going to reveal these shots... I know nothing beats lycra for comfort on free climbs but it still looks a wee sissy...
I even did self-timer shots. PATHETIC!
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'Pass the Pitons' Pete
Big Wall climber
like Oakville, Ontario, Canada, eh?
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Feb 27, 2008 - 08:30pm PT
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Twisted Crank, you are indeed twisted. And after several beers and shiraz on an empty stomach, I am LMAO. Accordingly I shall share the Dr. Piton Theory of Hunged-ness:
If you are a lefty [like me!] you hang right. The converse is also true.
Accordingly, in theory from left to right, the cyclists are:
Righty, lefty, lefty, righty, lefty.
Note: This is somewhat counter-intuitive since most people are Righties, however I will stand by my assertion.
I never wore lycra. It would give away my lefty-ness.
eKat - right on! Tell it like it is!
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Willoughby
Social climber
Truckee, CA
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Feb 27, 2008 - 09:16pm PT
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As somebody who can't even tolerate boxers, much less tighty-whiteys, the notion that lycra is/was in anyway comfortable is simply unfathomable. You guys are friggin' insane! Seriously. INSANE!!!! (Or lying, 'cause you just liked the way you looked in 'em). Cyclists wear bike shorts for the chamois padding. I do this myself on my road bike, but it's definitely taken me a few years to get use to, and somedays they're so annoying I think it really helps me push the pace, just so I can get home and get out of those god-forsaken torture garments. Nonetheless, I was tempted by Brian's link. I took a peek, and, one thing led to another, and...from now on I think I'm gonna climb in one of these get-ups:
I'm gonna see if they'll make me a cape and a codpiece to go with it. Lycra...wtf?!?!?!
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Brian Boyd
Trad climber
Scottsdale, AZ
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Feb 29, 2008 - 04:23pm PT
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More, cause it's Friday...
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