Kilts on bikes?

[way2fractious]

The subject of kilts and bikes has been approached before and this conversation has predictably proceeded down the same path as the others. What I see developing are the familiar two camps - the "yes you can" and the "no you can't" groups. Please allow me to add a few more thoughts.

It appears to me that certain bicycles, and certain riding styles, and even certain reasons for mounting the machine, all lend themselves to kilted riding - and others do not. There is no way I would wear a kilt on a road bike frame (10-speed, racer, touring, etc.) with a narrow saddle and a "dropped" riding position, but I would on a mountain bike frame, a beach cruiser, or any other "comfort bike" with the wider seat and a more upright riding position.

Perhaps it as much to do with the purpose of the ride as anything else. The question is (no, not "The Question"!) whether you are going for an all-out bike ride, or whether you are going out for a short errand, to see a friend, or to show off your kilt.

Yes, there is a kilted wrestler, a kilted dancer with the stars, and maybe even a kilted skydiver somewhere, but I'll never join the ranks of kilted commuter or kilted cross-country cyclo-tourist (I'm kilted off-bike, but not on-bike.)

w2f