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Old September 20th 19, 05:20 PM posted to rec.bicycles.misc
Frank Krygowski[_4_]
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Default AG: Special clothing for the bike

On 9/20/2019 12:00 PM, NFN Smith wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 9/18/2019 12:19 AM, Vladimir Sedach wrote:
Joy Beeson writes:

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.

Never tried safety pins. I tight-roll the hems 1980s style, works
great.


Starting back in the 1970s, I tried tucking my cuffs into my socks.
The cuffs slipped out. Then I tried rolling the cuffs up. That took
too long, and if not done perfectly, the cuffs slipped out. I tried
pants clips made of spring steel, and reflective ones made of nylon
fabric and velcro. I tried thick rubber bands.

Most of those would work for a while, but eventually come loose enough
that my dress trousers (when I was riding to work) would end up with
some chain grease on them.

Safety pins work for me. I flip the front of the cuffs to the outside,
wrap them tightly around my ankle and pin them. They stay pinned and
never come loose.

Switching to a waxed chain helped too, but the pins are more important.



When I was in college, I had a couple of different straps that were
about 9" long and between half and full inch wide.Â* Velcro at the ends,
and reflective tape on the outside.Â* One was a braded strap with velcro
sewn to the outside, the other was entirely plastic, where the entire
outside was reflective.Â* Besides keeping the pant leg out of the chain,
I found the effectiveness to be especially useful, since I was out
frequently after dark.Â* When I was done riding, I don't remember if I
threw the strap in the pocket of my backpack (probably) or simply looped
around my locking cable.

Just for grins, I took a quick look at Amazon, and found a number of
representative samples, and probably could find several more by varying
the search terms.
https://www.amazon.com/slp/velcro-pa...e3mdmg5uccf9w7


Yes, we have a few of those around the house.

Another design my wife likes is an ankle strap modeled on the "slap
bracelet" that was briefly popular with kids. It's a thin spring steel
strap about 10" long that's pre-stressed in such a way that if you
extend it all the way, it stays straight; but if you bend it at any
point, it snaps into a circular shape.

She has one leg strap made with that spring steel, covered with
reflective plastic. It snaps in place around her pant cuffs. And I don't
doubt that the reflective surface helps at night. The "biomotion" of
pedaling grabs attention.

But she doesn't do the utility mileage that I do. IME my cuffs gradually
creep out of those types of straps.


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