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Re: Clothing/shorts for touring bike ride?

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Tom Sherman
  
Marian Rosenberg wrote:
> On Apr 8, 1:08 pm, "Mike Jacoubowsky" <mik...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> | I wear bib knickers in all weather, because I prefer
>> | to keep the sun off the tops of my thighs. Bibs because
>> | there they do not depend on a waist band to keep them
>> | in place.
>>
>> Bib shorts are highly addictive. I can't imagine ever wearing anything else
>> now. What I like is that you can sit, stand, move around as much as you want
>> and the shorts stay in place.
>
> Yabbut PEEING is really hard.
>
> I mean, if you are a pro rider of the male persuasion and have
> practice you might be able to stand up on the pedals pull the shorts
> up up up and pull it out and take a whiz while one of your teammates
> holds on to your saddle to keep you moving but if you AREN'T a pro
> rider, don't have teammates, or happen to be a girl (like me) peeing
> becomes really difficult.
>
> Which is not to say that my two pairs of bib shorts aren't among my
> favorites just that I really wish there was an easier way to go to the
> toilet that didn't involve getting completely undressed when wearing
> them.
>
A fully-faired recumbent with a "discharge tube" has its advantages. :)

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Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful

John Thompson
  
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On 2008-04-09, Tom Sherman <sunsetss0003@REMOVETHISyahoo.com> wrote:
> Marian Rosenberg wrote:
>>
>> I mean, if you are a pro rider of the male persuasion and have
>> practice you might be able to stand up on the pedals pull the shorts
>> up up up and pull it out and take a whiz while one of your teammates
>> holds on to your saddle to keep you moving but if you AREN'T a pro
>> rider, don't have teammates, or happen to be a girl (like me) peeing
>> becomes really difficult.

> A fully-faired recumbent with a "discharge tube" has its advantages. :)

Where I work we call them "foley catheters." :-)

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)

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