phughes

But a sponge is a floatation device... until it's not.

Chuck M 

Don't forget that half bottles of vodka and kitchen knives need carrying too.

rydabent

I guess you are the kind of guy that would know. Back when I was young we called them a snarf!!!!

rydabent

I do have to admit that if you ride a DF, blow big bucks on cycling pants with a dead goat skin in them that you have to grease up, you wont squeak when off the bike and walking. I bet you even have fun washing all that grease off.

tomato coupe

We really don't need to hear about your weird fantasies.

rsbob 

Not to be a stickler, but I believe the correct term is ‘cycling trousers’.

For the first time ever I bought a pair with gel inserts and on long rides (50+ miles) my sit bones thanked me. Won’t be going back to sitting on sponges for long hauls. Not that there is anything wrong with the use of sponges in polite company, vodka bottles not withstanding.

tomato coupe

I thought they were cycling slacks.

phughes

I don't wear bike specific shorts while riding. I have no issues, even on long days on tour. What's your point? Do you have one, or are you simply a broken record that plays the same thing over and over again? Usually stuck on the same boring, nonsensical part of the song.

livedarklions

For the zillionth time, DF riders outnumber bent riders by a factor of thousands. The DF design is perhaps the single most successful mechanical design in human history, adaptable to an incredible number of uses in a broad range of environments. Recumbents are fine at what they do, but they are a relatively expensive, bulky niche product almost exclusively useful only on fairly flat pavement. When you come onto a forum that's overwhelmingly populated by enthusiastic df riders and lecture us about how uncomfortable we are, we know you are full of crap. That might be what's making your seat smell.
I've got no problem with you extolling the virtues of your bent, but if you insist on making stupid ill-informed comparisons to df bikes, expect to be ridiculed.
And, so far I've ridden 135 miles this weekend without any padding in my pants, and I'm just fine. I've got another 35 miles to ride today, no goat skin needed.

indyfabz

In the UK, pants are what we in the US call underwear.

indyfabz

Squeak when walking? 😂 What sort of people are you hanging around with? And only a fool uses a lubricant that is not water soluble.

badger1

Pants/slacks, whatever; I have found the perfect 'cycling pants/slacks' (pic below). Everything the intelligent, practical cyclist could want in the way of features, along with curb appeal.

I shall now switch momentarily into full 'General Cycling' register: 'I don't understand why manufacturers can't make these available. I want them, so they should make them ... at a ridiculously low retail price ... just for me ... etc etc wah wah'. /digression

tomato coupe

Wow! They come with "extra large snack sack" and an "action zone." What else could anybody possibly want?


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badger1

Precisely! I sense a marketing opportunity. With any luck, the patent on the "action zone" might have expired by now.

These are the cycling pants the Rat Pack would have worn if they were, you know, given to riding bicycles.

tomato coupe

Patent or no patent, I think the action zone expired years ago for many on this forum.

big john

Believe it or not, he's better than he used to be. He used to tell us how stupid we were on a regular basis. And, yes, he used the word stupid.

Apparently he hasn't heard about synthetic chamois yet.

rydabent

Not mine, people that ride DF bikes.

rydabent

Do old DF riders that use depends have to have padded cycling shorts?

rydabent

But----------------you have to remember the DF bike was invented 130 years ago. Time moves on, and better designs have come into being. With your kind of thinking we would still have coal fired steam engines, and model T cars.

A mountain bike is an improvement over the standard DF road bike for riding off road, and a Bent is an improvement over a DF bike for riding on pavement because of comfort and the view. Time does move on.

seypat

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Some of this, of course. between this and the pants, you'll have to go into the witness protection program!

tomato coupe

Your cloud shouting is actually funnier than your attempts at humor.

tomato coupe

The first patent for a recumbent was applied for 126 years ago, yet recumbents still account for a tiny fraction of bicycle sales. But, I’m sure sales will take off any day now …

livedarklions

Nonsense, a bent is most decidedly not an improvement for riding on pavement for most people who ride on pavement, otherwise you'd actually see a lot more of them in the wild. Again, I easily see thousands of DF bikes on pavement for every bent I see anywhere (and I almost never see a bent anywhere else but on a MUP). Model Ts and coal-fired steam engines did go away when other designs came forward and replaced them. Show us the slightest bit of evidence this is occurring with the DF. Thousands of new models of DF frames are produced every year, and millions sold worldwide. That is completely unlike what has happened with the coal-fired steam engine, the comparison is incredibly stupid on your part. .

The DF is to the bicycle what the flanged steel wheel is to the railroad--there's a few applications of the technology that don't use it, but the vast majority of bicycles use some variation of DF, mountain bikes included. By your way of thinking, the steel wheel should have gone away when the Paris Metro used rubber tires, instead, it's been the standard for 150 years..

DF bikes are portable, convenient, fast, adaptable, extremely comfortable for most riders, and the main form of transportation in significant parts of the world. Bents are something a very small number of people ride.

livedarklions

Dunno, ask them.

Nice try at the "I'm rubber, you're glue", but you are no good at the comebacks.

indyfabz

I’ve never seen evidence that he owns any kind of bike (or the trike he claims to own).