Cycling in a maxi dress

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I'm off on a holiday where there will be lots of cycling. I also want to wear long dresses/skirts. Is it doable? I'm sure tighter ones can be hitched up right? Will it be a total faff?

Total faff. And you don't want it getting caught in the chain or peddles etc.

Have a nice hol though

thanks. but grr. i want to hear it's possible! anyone?

It is possible, but will make you miserable and is difficult (used to cycle to work wearing midi skirts - even they were difficult enough). Imagine if it rains? Or if it is hot, you will hate it. Wear comfy shorts and trousers while cycling and save your dresses for the evenings?

Don't do it, unless it is literally a 5min ride! Wear long shorts if you want something to cover your legs.

Don't. Just don't. Wear shorts or Capri styleee trews!

Could you carry off the short onesies that are everywhere?

sorry i've been out and about. oh no :( and i could do onesies/other short things but would rather not when i'm bruised from the kids/travelling or covered in massive mozzie bites

I live in the Netherlands and people cycle in everything. It's currently "pants season" as women are cycling in mini-skirts.

Tuck it into your knickers?

I just saw your thread title- it sounds like the start of a reconstruction on 999 with Michael Beurk.

Three things to worry about, modesty, comfort and smell. Many skirts are cyclable in but show a lot of upper and inner thigh, some skirts are just too much faff to get on and off. Actually fine when you are on though. You will sweat though and so may need a change of clothes anyway. I would thus wear a t shirt bikini pants and a sarong to bike in and change once I got off

I actually did laugh out loud when I read your thread title, sorry .

If it was a straightish maxi you wouldn't be able to move your legs surely and you would fall off. If it was a full skirt you would be fine I should think until the skirt got caught in the spokes.

Would leggings be acceptable in these circumstances? Not on their own obv...

Btw one of my favorite thing to cycle in is a long a line maxi skirt, is just above ankle height

lol at 'pants season'

and thank you witch for giving me hope. you know what i'm going to give it a go (then probably grumble lots, get laughed at and end up ripping it on the way home!).

I think it depends a lot on the bike. Mine has a big protector over the chain and there's just no way it could get hooked up.

But you won't be able to stop it getting caught in a wheel though. I ruined a favourite long skirt years ago by wearing it when I rode my bike. It got tangled in the spokes of the rear wheel. Good job the village was dead quiet otherwise it would have been a messier accident. As it was it was only a mangled skirt and mangled pride rather than me mangled under a car.

I sometimes cycle in loose knee skirt, but cycle shorts underneath are a necessity. Don't cycle in a maxi dress unless you're not going far and your bike has a skirt guard on the rear wheel.

Yy to a skirt guard for city cycling: I cycle in whatever I fancy on my Pashley and it's never a problem, but that's a heavy city bike not v suitable for a cycling trip I'd think!

Dot do it...I used to cycle to work quite a lot and one day in my wealth of wisdom I wore a skirt...the wind was blowing up it, I got whistled at loads, felt a complete anus and so got off at the nearest sports direct and bought some cropped trousers

Wasnt my finest hour!!

i did it by the way. pants season was fully embraced :D. i hitched it up, twisted and tucked and it was fine

Good for you! Don't compromise your style. I read about a woman who runs marathons in dresses and she almost inspired me to take up running

You can cycle in pretty much anything! Mini skirt season here too...

I´ve cycled in maxi dresses millions of times - hoick up the back and sit on the material (kind of tucked under your bum). Keeps it out of the chain and allows the front to fall down so you´re not flashing your knickers. Mind you, sounds like it´s a cycling country, so no-one will bat an eyelid. They will be cycling in all sorts of clothes, high heels too.