Mike Saunders, co-owner of a hotel, has had enough of “unsightly bumps and bulges” on cyclists wearing Lycra shorts. He has taken the drastic measure to ban them from his premises and dare we say it, he has some big balls to turn his back on business like that!
A New Zealand hotelier and café-owner has banned the wearing of lycra shorts in his establishment.
He believes the shorts reveal too many “unsightly bumps and bulges” of the human body.
Mike Saunders, co-owner of the Plough Hotel in Rangiora on the country’s South Island, put a sign outside the hotel yesterday which read: “The bicycle is a beautiful object but they should never have invented lycra! No lycra shorts allowed please.”
The story has received widespread media attention, with opinion very much divided on the matter.
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But in an effort to “raise dress standards” Saunders is adamant he’s taken the correct course of action.
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“I am not against Lycra in general, just Lycra shorts,” he said.
“A lot of our customers are elderly or children and they don’t need to know that much detail about the shape of somebody.
“Muddy football boots are fine. Tracksuit pants are fine. Flip flops are fine.
“So far locals have respected the fact we are trying to enforce a dress code so they can eat their meals surrounded by people wearing trousers.”
Saunders added that he hoped cyclists wouldn't take the dress code personally.
But having decided to serve breakfast in the café lately he had this remark: “Our place has a lot of nice customers, some elderly, who only want to see the sausages on their plate at breakfast”
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