Riding a bike and wearing a kilt

[Hamish]

Several years ago, I took part in the 60+ mile London to Brighton Charity cycle ride (it's not a race) for the British Heart Foundation. In an effort to raise additional sponsorship, I volunteered to do the ride in a mini-kilt. As far as I know, among the 27,000 cyclists taking part, I was the only one in any form of kilt.

Whilst in training for the event, I frequently wore an ordinary kilt to check its 'behavior' in different weather conditions. I never had any problems other than there being constant danger of 6yards of long pleats becoming caught in the spokes of the rear wheel. It was mainly that experience that decided me to go for the mini-kilt on the day when, for my own comfort and no other reason, I decided also to wear severely cut off padded lycra cycle shorts under it!

The whole day was a great success and I raised over £1,000 by taking part. Only one regret: no photos were taken!

[JockEleven]

I really don't understand why you guys would want to ride bike when kilted. May be it is just me.

It's more like, "why want to be kiled while riding a bike?"

If you live in Cambridge, you ain't gonna drive anywhere in town if you can cycle, because it's faster and much cheaper (some parts of town aren't even reachable by private car -- only by busses and taxis).

So, biking is standard urban transport here.

Tucking hems under one's bottom seems to be the way to go in windy weather. Pushing the sporran to the side makes sense (in the worse case, taking it off and wearing it across one's chest is an alternative).

Cheers!