Riders Get Little Room For Fashion At Tour De France

Cycling’s most extreme fashion rebel was Mario Cipollini, an Italian sprinter who was at his peak during the 1990s. He generated as much attention for his sponsors with what he wore as he did with what he won. He once turned up for a Tour stage in a chariot wearing vaguely Roman-styled cycling clothes underneath a toga. Perhaps his most extreme sartorial selection was an aerodynamic skin suit that was patterned with a life-size, anatomical drawing of muscles. Each of the episodes provoked fines from the cycling union. Today’s riders choose simpler ways to distinguish themselves. Read more at The New York Times.