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I've recently bought some 'Kevlar' jeans which are great when the temperature is up. One problem though, how do you stop them blowing up your legs when riding 'feet-forward' ? Super-glue or elastic bands spring to mind 
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I've seen these also (but never tried them): boot straps I don't mind the airflow, but hate the way my pants ride up when riding this bike. In heavy rain last fall on the way to NY, my rain pants rode up higher than the top of my boots. Waterproof boots filled up with water and soaked up my pant legs to about my knees. Will
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My huge muscular legs stop this from ever happening to me. 
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My huge muscular legs stop this from ever happening to me.
Now I'm all of a quiver 
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Buy your pants long then tight rolls them like the 80s.  
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It's hard to get a straight answer outta this bunch , ain't it ? By the way , WHO'S been blowing up your leg ?  Quote:
how do you stop them blowing up your legs when riding '
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Duct tape should work.
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"Lighten up, Francis."
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My Diamond Gusset Defender jeans have straps built in to the cuffs.
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Bicycle shops once sold 3/4 circle spring steel clips that snapped around the ankle when riding a bike without a chainring. Maybe 1/4" wide. I just pop mine off and over the handlebars when I get off the bike. I've had a pair since the '70s and they work fine. You might check and see if something like this is still available.
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Bicycle shops once sold 3/4 circle spring steel clips that snapped around the ankle...
I remember those... we'd use 'em to keep the pant leg out of the chain.
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Bicycle shops once sold 3/4 circle spring steel clips that snapped around the ankle...
I remember those... we'd use 'em to keep the pant leg out of the chain.
OR...I seem to remember somebody in France making this recently...
...and so maybe that "somebody" can just make a couple of 'em bigger...and more rounded.
(...and with a hinge...and with a clasp)
 
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 Just be sure you get a long enough chain.
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But seriously folks: Bicycle clips
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OMG, I found the PERFECT thing!!  Windrider Reflective Designer Ankle Clips http://www.spire.com/s-file/stylish-gifts-for-men
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OMG, I found the PERFECT thing!!
Windrider Reflective Designer Ankle Clips
http://www.spire.com/s-file/stylish-gifts-for-men
Oh yeah! THERE ya go, Gary!
Keith has come through again for us around here!
And just think, those would be PERFECT for your new part-time job deliverin' flowers for FTD!!!
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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They are brilliant  but I was thinking something a tad more discrete
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Just be sure you get a long enough chain.
I also like this idea and if the chain was run under the bike it would help to keep you on the bike in strong winds
My girlfriend thinks I'm a stalker...
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Just be sure you get a long enough chain.
I also like this idea and if the chain was run under the bike it would help to keep you on the bike in strong winds
that'd be no prob stand their with your feet apart and have someone back the bike under you
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I never even realize this was a problem. One of the advantages of having a 36" inseam I guess. My feet aren't that far out in front of me. Knees are bent at a 90 degree angle so my shins are perpendicular to the road.
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I gotta get me some narrower bars,
so's I can run the bike
with handcuffs on as well.
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 "That unclecharlie, he gots rabbit in his blood"
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What we have here, is failure to communicate.
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How about a high tach gadget like a rubber band
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Wear shorts
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Seriously though, on long journeys I wear a pair of calf length boots like the old sixties rockers used to wear.
They go over my jeans usually, but they can go under.
I've had them since the eighties so I can't post a link.
Although this is a problem I have never noticed, even at speed.
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Since the '80s????!!!! I remember you said that you still use 35mm film 'cause you were tight and wouldn't buy digital. Dude, NOW I believe you I don't have anything from the '80s ... certainly not the hair anyway!
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Tall boots under the jeans,
Jeans of sufficient length,
Overpants.
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