You're quite right and I apologize. I've got nothing against spandex per se. There's some in the very quick-drying trousers I'm wearing in the office right this minute.

Two cyclists were speeding along abreast on their racing-style bikes, on a major urban commuting bikeway, at rush hour yesterday, and I'm afraid that their logo-covered spandex racing togs were the most iconic thing about their wrong-place-wrong-time-ness. I seized on it unfairly. Sorry about that!