Our drying rack folds up and hides behind the dryer and sink!
I’ll admit to occasionally drying some cycling kit by accident and it survived just fine.
Some notes based on previous posts:
Use low temp dry for all your clothes except towels and jeans. Our dryer seem to actually cook on the highest setting.
I have some perfectly good looking Assos bibs that seem to have lost their comfort after a couple of years. I’m guessing that the chamois has gotten compressed even though it doesn’t look it.
Funk or smell: use Borax. It will take out any accumulated smell and not harm clothes or bleach them.
White or light colored kit turning yellow from sunscreen - I’ve never found a solution for this.
Ha 
So now I have to ask - how old are your underpants?
That is some kind of witchcraft there,
I “took control” of my life (ie clothes washing) a few years back now. Weekly, one load for whites, one for coloureds, one for sports on synthetic setting with non-bio detergent. Done. Oh and a wool wash every so often.
I often work out twice a day, shower twice a day, and my clothes have never smelled. One pair of thermal long bibs goes back to 2016.
Dude, I don’t make the rules, just follow them. I do most of the laundry, and like the rest of our lives it’s commingled. Happy wife, happy life!
I’ve had kit that’s been washed at 40deg C and it has stuck together when I’ve forgotten to lower the temperature. Touchwood washing at 30deg C has never done that. I think washing at 30deg C is better for the environment anyway and all my clothes are washed at that now. Lol, even if its not it’s just means that I don’t have to remember to turn it down 
I wash my bib shorts in a cold wash with the rest of my darks and then hang dry.
I’ve purchased used bibs. Yes, someone else’s tushie touched the pad. But I washed it before wearing it.
Assos bibs are pricey, and you can buy them for ½ off used…
This 100%. I’ve seen plenty of sports gear melted to the drum over the years.
Personally, the only cycling gear of mine that has failed in the last few years has been due to my wife cooking it in the drier.
If I’m in a hurry to dry something I’ll stick it on low heat and spin them with a dry towel. Otherwise, it’s air dry all the way.
Acidic water don’t break down plastics or synthetics, but UV sunlight does.
No danger of that in Northern England.
I always hang dry my cycling clothing, but I have transitioned to hang drying most of my clothes. I have slowly replaced a large amount of my wardrobe with wool clothing so I can’t use the dryer.
I suppose in a pinch I would toss them in the dryer on a super low or no heat setting. However, I accidentally dried a paper thin jersey one time and it melted off the silicone patches that helped keep the sleeves down, whoops.
I agree. My Rapha, Assos, CCN bibs survive through washing and dyring machines just fine.
The only thing I don’t put in the dryer is my gabba, to protect the “waterproofness”, but even that gets machine washed.
No problems so far.
I only wash at 30deg C but touch wood I’ve had no problems with my Gabbas in the machine. After the logos and reflective started coming off a pair of Castelli bibs, I’ve started turning the Gabba inside out before washing but I doubt it’s really needed; it never seemed to damage them when it wasn’t done for circa 2 years.
Look away… look away people… shudders
But why do Reds/purples dry in half the time of the Whites, Blacks, Blues, etc?? That’s the most confusing part of the chart for me.
Luckily my fiance and I have the same way of doing laundry. All ‘regular’ clothes in one load on ‘normal’ settings and another load on ‘delicate’ for bike/workout clothes that gets hung up to dry.
Hmm, probably because my kids wore a lot of red and purple school logo shirts, and the loads were smaller. Guessing my oldest was 10 when she made that chart. That kid was always trying to help and take charge, the same kid that tried to convince the teacher in kindergarten that they should teach together
I would like to add my anecdotes about kits here as well.
I got my first team kit in 2014 (champion systems). I just used those same bib shorts yesterday night on the trainer. Strangely enough, i still have every kit i ever bought (other than the two bib sports that mysteriously vanished). Only my three oldest bib shorts (purchased 2014-2016) are see-through now and i only use them on the trainer at home in privacy.
I don’t understand what the symptoms (besides becoming see-through) are of an old kit which make you believe that they aren’t good any more… i will read through this thread to see if someone has already discussed this…
I do wash cold delicate and hang dry my kits after use… but i haven’t done experiments to see if that actually helped prolong the life of any of my kits so i couldn’t argue against what the original poster said
I’m guessing my old chamois probably have become less supportive but I’m just not as sensitive to noticing.