http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Don't wear baggy T-shirts in summer en Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:32:42 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14544 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:01:22 +0000 spitfire 14544@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Steveo - rofl (that made me glad I returned)<br /> @wingpig - I'd rather do without a cooling breeze than get stung on the napper as has happened before with my old lid which had even less space for the sodding wasp to make it in, little sod scored a complete bullseye AND that was on the same day after I had taken an over handlebars spill trying to remove said lid once one of the wee bar stewards got stuck in the strap of the lid<br /> sometimes I take the lid off when I am on the railway path between the trees </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14543 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:54:01 +0000 steveo 14543@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>midge visor?<br /> <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Burqa_Afghanistan_01.jpg/400px-Burqa_Afghanistan_01.jpg"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Burqa_Afghanistan_01.jpg"></a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14542 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:46:31 +0000 wingpig 14542@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If it screens wind it might also attenuate cooling draughts... might be good for making a sort of midge-in-the-eye prevention-veil, or mesh panels for a visor... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14541 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:46:07 +0000 Min 14541@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll be well impressed if anyone gets a pigeon trapped in their h****t. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14539 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:32:45 +0000 spitfire 14539@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.garden-goodies.co.uk/acatalog/info_TEN270.html">1mm x 1mm mesh</a><br /> or some old tent fly guard </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14538 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:29:28 +0000 spitfire 14538@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I meant the kind that can be used as a screen for wind much tighter holing </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14537 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:20:33 +0000 wingpig 14537@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My Giro Indicator came with little mesh panels in the main front vents. Tights might not be too good for airflow (seeing as they seem to be able to protect hairless skinny legs from weather cold enough to make me very grateful for my hairy-leg genes) but one of those mesh laundry bag things ought to work against anything thunderbug-size and upwards. Garden netting might be a bit large-holed, assuming it's sized to block pigeons but permit the transmission of insect-beasties for pollination purposes. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14536 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:10:36 +0000 spitfire 14536@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>rob a bank then make a quick bike getaway (faster than car through town)<br /> some of the green netting stuff you get in gardening shops </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14531 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:53:53 +0000 chdot 14531@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"Needs to stop those wee flies that get in then crawl around - aagh!"</p> <p>Old tights? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14530 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:51:46 +0000 amir 14530@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Needs to stop those wee flies that get in then crawl around - aagh! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14529 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:51:31 +0000 chdot 14529@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"ooooh you said the h word..."</p> <p>Word is fine. </p> <p>It's when it's mixed with other words and posted here and then someone re-arranges the words and turns the thread on its head that 'we' get problems... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14528 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:49:24 +0000 spitfire 14528@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was going to rip up a wee mesh bag I got a swimproof mp3 device in or steal some from a bag of oranges </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14527 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:47:42 +0000 amir 14527@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Where can you get mesh from? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14525 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:41:50 +0000 spitfire 14525@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>ooooh you said the h word...<br /> I need to fit mesh to my new lid </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-14523 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:40:19 +0000 wingpig 14523@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I discovered I was allergic to wasps and bees when one somehow stung me on the neck heading along the path beside Canonmills Tesco a few years back. By the time I got home (going the long way round) I was redder and more swollen than usual after summer-evening-exertion but found some antihistamines which had mostly sorted it by the time I got to the doctor. Subsequent tests confirmed the allergy (and also suggested that what I thought had been breathing difficulties and a panic attack thirteen years ago must have been post-double-wasps-sting anaphylaxis).</p> <p>Perhaps the baggy-T-shirt risk is why fancy-material cyclewear-tops always fit very snugly round the neck, significantly reducing their ability to make sweating less unpleasant. My helmet has little mesh filters at the back of the front vents but even on Flying Ant Days there's never been anything in there at the end of a ride. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-10709 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:27:16 +0000 spytfyre 10709@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yup - I always wear glasses, bought a set with 3 sets of lenses clear in the winter and darker ones for the summer. Cheap as chips from <font color="red"><a href="http://chainreactioncycles.com">chainreactioncycles.com</a></font> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-10690 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:13:52 +0000 Min 10690@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm freaking me out too. ;-)</p> <p>On a serious note, insects can be a real problem and not just the stingy ones. I bought clear glasses last year and about a week later was riding along when an insect about the size of a basketball smashed into the right lens. Almost ripped my head off and the CRACK made me think it had broken them. Soooooo glad I was wearing the glasses! I wear them most of the time in insect season now. Only problem is, they often climb inside and walk about on the lens. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-10637 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:33:52 +0000 spytfyre 10637@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>crikey so was I...<br /> stop this. you are freaking me out a little :P </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-10636 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:27:50 +0000 Min 10636@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hehe, yep it does! I am not to blame for that though, he was bald when I met him. :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-10635 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:26:04 +0000 spytfyre 10635@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>...<br /> uhhhh, nope, just the one wife and kid (and mortgage and in laws) I think that's enough for one guy to handle. I have already gone bald, please tell me that doesn't match too... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-10634 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:13:43 +0000 Min 10634@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Spytfyre, are you married to me? So far, every physical description you have posted has fitted my husband (including blue hybrid) and I was thinking to myself on reading the first post that I would post the anecdote about him getting a wasp in his helmet, then there you go and post the same thing. </p> <p>Mind you, I'm fairly sure he doesn't have a wife and family elsewhere in Edinburgh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-10631 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:28:13 +0000 gembo 10631@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>vinegar for vasp stings bicarbonate for bees </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-10629 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:25:03 +0000 spytfyre 10629@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ouch, you have my sympathies<br /> also, plug the holes in yer lid (if you wear one) got a wasp stuck in my helmet and went over the handlebars trying to get lid off and hitting wrong brake... talk about embarrassed<br /> Mind you I totally freak out around wasps, got stung inside the ear aged 4 and have phobia of the little b@$*@**$...</p> <p>well done on the race too though </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=1148#post-10623 Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:23:32 +0000 Greenroofer 10623@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Had a full-on sensory experience on the way home tonight. A wasp flew down the collar of my (not particularly baggy) T-shirt, and stung me on my middle. On the towpath and going at a fair clip (I was inappropriately commuter racing the chap on the fixie in front of me) it prompted some rapid decision making about priorities. I decided that getting the wasp out and not ending up in the canal was more important than catching him up*.</p> <p>It's still tingling three hours later.</p> <p>Don't wear baggy t-shirts. If you do, don't tuck them in...</p> <p>*caught him in the end, though, even after the enforced stop. </p>