Forget the good

This shirt goes straight to the bad and ugly, but yet there is a certain tongue in cheek (hardee har har) element to it that is non typical of the snobby cycling scene. I bring you Cycle Buttcrack jerseys. The name is exactly what the product is. It’s a shirt that makes it look like…

An Insult! An Outrage! A Baby Chicken!

While perusing the racks at REI for a pair of biking knickers, I rifled through the sale rack of women’s shirts. The below picture is the type of shirts on that rack. Look at this crap! It’s effin’ unholy. Talk about a continuation of the pink theme from my earlier post but this has gone…

Fashion Week: The Hat

I’ll be honest – now that we all wear helmets, how does one get to wear the cool cycling hat? Do you wear it under the helmet? Do you be a rebel and just wear the hat? I guess tomorrow I’ll shovel a cycling hat UNDER the helmet and see how that works out. I…

Fashion Week: Helmets

Welcome to the kick off of Thrown Chain’s cycling FASHION WEEK! Ironically, I am a pretty UNfashionable person, but even I get sucked into fashion decision considerations. So! Who said helmets have to be dorky and lame? Helmets can be sexy! YAKKAY (in Denmark, hence the weird company name) sells helmets that don’t even look…

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Ugliest Bike Socks Evah*

BEHOLD!!! The UGLIEST SOCKS EVER MADE!!! YES. These socks truly exist. Those are my sexy ankles, showing off a hideous pair of cycling socks. The socks were given as a gift to me by my well-meaning brother many years ago. I asked for cycling socks for my birthday (hey, they aren’t cheap, ok?), and he…