E:LETTERS\WHATWEAR.TXT Amazingly, there are people who object to wearing cycling-specific clothing on bicycles -- some of them running in circles and screeching hysterically about it. The ones who shriek "wearing Spandex makes you look as though you were trying to dress up as Superman", I'll ignore with the contempt they deserve. Besides, *good* cycle clothes don't contain a trace of Spandex or any other brand of elastane except in the waistband and the back-pocket closings -- they get their stretch from being 100% wool. But machine-washable wool has become completely unobtainable -- hence my years-long project to put hundreds of dollars of labor into renovating a jersey that cost less than sixty dollars in the first place. Then there are those who shout that we shouldn't wear cycling clothes because it gives beginners the idea that they can't ride their disposable Walmart bikes without spending hundreds of dollars on special clothing. Say What? Sure, it would be irresponsible to tell beginners that they can't ride in their blue jeans, but I don't think anybody is doing that -- in fact, when I began, an experienced rider advised me "don't ever try wearing black shorts, because you won't be able to ride in anything else if you do." Entities who say that I should be uncomfortable in order to set a good example are no different from entities who say that I should wear crippling shoes to parties because it is stylish to look available and easy to catch.