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not resolvedI am starting to use my bike for short errands as well as the commute. If I am at work I usually just slip the bikesters on. However today I forgot them and had to wear my light beige work trousers (Rohans). Result - black splodges in various places (none on lower leg).
Q1: any recommendations on trousers that are equally good on the bike and smart casual situations (in my work ties are generally frowned upon)?
Q2: How to get greasy dirt out of light coloured clothing?
Try the dirt removers that come in three kinds of things - one is for greasy dirt, splodge it on and wash.
This looks like what we all need: Stain Devils Grease, Lub & Paint Stain Remover maybe not a pack of 6...
Usually the pink stuff or eco-friendly nappisan equivs work well for stains too, but not grease.
Get some mudguards!
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Try LIDL-sourced "Toujours"-brand baby wipes. Great for cleaning the fingers of oil and wheel-rim-gack after fitting/fixing/repairing so presumably also capable of at least loosening oil's grip on clothing-fibres, though they might just spread and dilute it.
"Get some mudguards! "
I have proper mudguards. And it is dry today. I have no idea where the muck came from (some on my fly, some on the right trouser pocket etc). My hands are clean.
[I am just practising my case for the defence for when I get back home]
"needs a sub (or pay £1 for trial use) can't remember our password!"
I used to subscribe to Which. It's useful but quite costly and in the end I thought that it was just supporting my consumerism.
Skinny/slim leg navy khakis work very well on/off the bike (frae that american store) less need for sock tuckage, and the dark colour hides not only the odd splodge, but also any creases from rolling a leg up a bit. And you look a bit hipster to boot.
How slim a leg you go for depends how slim a leg you have, but the less flap the better.
(PS, most of my clothing is based on The Gap, as I only shop out of hours at ocean terminal or lunchtime at the gyle. Slightly limiting. I once realised when shopping there that every item of clothing I was wearing was from there apart from my shoes :) )
"...navy khakis..."
I don't understand modern fashion at all. Isn't it marvellous what they can do these days?
The which sub is Mr SRD's responsibility. I think its too expensive too.
Pedant :P It's their marketoon speak coz chinos is so 90s, innit.
but... but... doesn't everyone have a pair of these these days?
Craghopper zip offs.
The ordinary ones seem to work fine too but I wear dark colours and even have a bike with a full chain guard. Bromptons have a ring round the chain ring.
@JP - the guy in that Rapha picture (£180 for shell suit bottoms????) seems to have smelly oxter.
I was at a conference the other week and met an old colleague, we noticed we had on the same trousers. Black chinos from M&S with waistband technology [hidden elastic]. The pockets have a distinctive lining in red and white and black [that is how you know you have the same trousers].
After lunch we both found ourselves at a seminar on something purporting to be Universal Psychology. I was sitting next to anpother colleague and as the seminar waned in interest I noticed he had the same trousers on too. I pointed this out to the third colleague. At the end he shouted to us "I don't know about universal psychology but there might be something in this Universal Trousers" :-)
Is there a theory of convergence here?
Members of forums share ideas on the best products and eventually everyone has the same everything.
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@Gembo - I imagine he's just checking, but realises he's sweet-smelling and doesn't need to do anything about it. A bit like The Fonz when he's about to comb his hair, but looks in the mirror and realises he doesn't need to.
That's the best trouser story I've heard all day btw. :-)
@ amir - your convergence theory works for ortlieb panniers, you do see other brands but not many. Male psychologists of a certain age, black chinos from M&S with ticking detail in pocket [not tick tock, ticking a sort of cloth for pockets I understand]. Could be convergence too.
At work I have cycling trousers and non-cycling trousers but a colleague of mine The Badger [looks like Bernard Hinault] cycles in his good suit. He gets them cheap from Leckie's of Falkirk due to his compact physique.
@JP - Arthur Fonzarella was Cool [though about 20 years older than the children he hung out with] but Rapha Fonzarella, sniffing his armpit, now that ain't cool
Nothing really gets rid of the dreaded black bike gunk (a lovely mix of oil, dirt, brake dust, grit etc). I usually wear black or dark grey trousers when cycling to work - camouflage being the best defence in my experience.
We have a convergence thing going on because my dad wears Craghoppers now too.
We both wear their shirts too.
I use WD40 to get out the black grime, then normal detergents to get rid of the WD40. I hastily add that I work in an afterschool club and an office with an almost non-existent dress code, so I don't have anything fancier than a T-shirt and jeans. I wouldn't be spraying WD40 on anything with less proven fabric.
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