I personally wear lycra and am just under the 100kg mark and 6ft, so on the tubby side. I could not give two shits what people think, I'm comfortable in it and that's all that matters.
As for taking pride overtaking some random whilst riding, that's a different kettle of fish entirely. Competition is fine and all, but drawing comparisons of ability is far fetched. How long has the bloke you just blew past been on the saddle that day? You may be fresh and 5km into a 30km ride and blowing past someone on the tail end of a 100km+ ride, so any thought that he/she is a chump in lycra is ridiculous. Also doesn't take into consideration if they are even going hard, they may be having an easy day and enjoying the cruise.
Gets my goat when people smash past and then constantly play the look back game (note I do not mean being aware of your surroundings here) as if there's a race on, nearly as bad as the randoms sitting an inch off the back wheel in silence. Everyone is doing different things and different points of their ride.
I'm not saying that I haven't dropped the hammer (well my version of the hammer anyways
) and caught and dropped people playing the racing game, though always remember there's plenty of riders much better than you are and no ones a hero for riding a push bike. Personally I like seeing some fattie out on a bike as at least they are getting some exercise and not sitting on the couch watching telly. The last thought on my mind is should they being wearing lycra or not
