CYCLISTS are renowned for their love of clothing related to the pursuit.

Take them down to Next on a Saturday morning and you'll find them tearing their hair out in frustration, but deposit them in a cycling shop or in front of a laptop and they can wile away the hours looking at all manner of Lycra-based gear.

Cycling clothing, though, does not need to be restricted to what you wear while out on your bike.

It might be much to your other half's chagrin, but there's plenty of casual clobber out there too by which to celebrate your love of everything two-wheeled.

To that end, we have Cycology Clothing - really wish I had thought of that name.

Set up in 2011, it is run by obsessives for obsessives.

While race gear makes up a healthy percentage of their online offerings, everyday wear is also prevalent.

On Two Wheels tested three of the company's T-shirts and a rather natty pair of boxers, all with original designs from Cycology's in-house artist.

All are made from high-quality 100 per cent cotton and are suitable for both sexes and were delivered promptly and with the minimum of fuss. The Train Hard t-shirt (£21) comes in grey and features a hand-drawn cycle with the motto 'Train Hard - Get Lucky'. The strapline 'the harder you train, the luckier you get' will be common to plenty of riders out there.

The Cognitive Therapy (£21) - I only just got that while typing this out - T-shirt features a front on racing bike with scrawled words of inspiration across it, such as 'eat clean, train dirty', 'free your mind and your legs will follow' and 'happiness is perfect chain tension'. I guarantee they will not only bring a smile to your face, but will also act as a spur to get back out there should the need arise.

The third t-shirt I tried was more simple in its design, but just as effective. Entitled DNA (£21) it comes in navy and features the two strands of polynucleotides - look it up - constructed from, what else, but a bicycle chain. Whereas the other two are more laddish, this is probably more for the thinking man's cyclist.

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Finally, and I am not sure that at the age of 45 I should be wearing them, I tried out the 'Day of the Living' boxers (£15), featuring a kind of Mexican festival/cycling theme. Comfortable and expensive feeling, they would make a welcome addition to the downstairs drawer.

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Boxers apart, all the items tested drew admiring glances and knowing nods from other cyclists and even led to me striking up something of a casual friendship with the bloke that had previously just been known as 'the beardy one from Tesco'.

For more on Cycology visit the website at www.cycologygear.co.uk