Pants Wear?
02-15-12, 12:45 AM
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Pants Wear?
sooo.... how do you guys avoid seat wear on your favorite pair of pants?
I commute every day and just about every pair of jeans I worn gets ruined by my saddle... the threads wear thin in patches near my sit bones on the ass of my pants until it looks ridiculous.
Suggestions? (Besides "get a better saddle" or "wear bike shorts")
02-15-12, 12:55 AM
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Get a better saddle or wear bike shorts.
02-15-12, 01:12 AM
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02-15-12, 09:53 AM
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sooo.... how do you guys avoid seat wear on your favorite pair of pants?
I commute every day and just about every pair of jeans I worn gets ruined by my saddle... the threads wear thin in patches near my sit bones on the ass of my pants until it looks ridiculous.
Seriously? This is like saying "How can I keep my food from going away when I eat it?"
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Wear out your jeans until people can see your asscrack as you walk into the office.
What kind of saddle do you have? Something horribly abrasive?
02-15-12, 10:20 AM
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Also, jeans wear, i thought that was just a fact of life.
Oh, you could buy Rapha jeans, apparently they are engineered to wear down less.
02-15-12, 10:30 AM
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seriously? This is like saying "how can i keep my food from going away when i eat it?"
possible?!
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Wear your Vader helmet on your ass?
02-15-12, 10:47 AM
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i want foreverfood.
where can i buy?
you could always ride naked
02-15-12, 10:48 AM
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you could always ride naked
beat me to it
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02-15-12, 11:49 AM
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Cordura denim pants should last quite a long time
02-15-12, 11:55 AM
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not when you drop deuces filled with glass
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I thought BF's godwin's law was brakes vs. no brakes
02-15-12, 12:03 PM
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I thought BF's godwin's law was Kilo TT
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Yeah besides the obvious get some cordura jeans. Swrve makes some nice ones.
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Seriously? This is like saying "How can I have my cake and eat it too?"
FTFY.
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Stop riding your bike.
02-15-12, 07:33 PM
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I have a pair of Ralph Lauren shorts that have held up to years of biking. Sure, they are faded in the ass, as well as the front from the sun, but I have yet to have a hole or a tear.
02-16-12, 01:13 AM
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Sure, they are faded in the ass, as well as the front from the sun
Hot.
02-16-12, 01:21 AM
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