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Old September 12th 19, 02:15 AM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
Frank Krygowski[_4_]
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Default AG: Special clothing for the bike

On 9/11/2019 8:19 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:

Yesterday (Tuesday, 10 September 2019) I had a couple of hours to
spare, I was already dressed for leaving the house, and I'd been
wanting to buy some whole coriander at the Spice Merchant in The
Village at Winona.

After about three steps on the gravel of the drive, I reflected that I
really didn't feel like walking that far and I've got a perfectly-good
pedestrian accelerator in the garage. Thumb-tested the tires, rolled
the Trek Pure out, stepped through the frame, noticed that my pants
were rubbing on the crankset.

I don't want to fray the hems of my only seeing-a-lawyer jeans, and I
don't keep safety pins in the left-side pocket. So I went back into
the house again to get the safety pins out of my very loud
flowered-linen jeans...


I keep a couple of large (2.5"?) safety pins on each bike. On most bikes
they're pinned under the lid of the handlebar bag. On the one bike with
a basket instead, they're clipped to the brake cables - even though I've
never needed them on that bike. It's specifically set up to never harm
my pants cuffs.

One problem is rust. Our grocery run last week was the first one in
months chilly enough for long pants. I rolled out the driveway with
unpinned cuffs, then stopped a block away to pin them. The safety pins
had rusted enough they were difficult to get out of the handlebar bag's
fabric.

When I got home, I exchanged the steel safety pins for brass ones. I'm
sure they won't rust, but there's another problem: They are thicker,
probably because the brass is weaker than steel. They're actually harder
to push through denim.

I'm still wishing for high strength titanium safety pins. Maybe hollow
ones to save more weight. ;-)

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