On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 22:03:01 +0000, Phil W Lee
wrote:

Rolf Mantel considered Mon, 24 Nov 2014 16:25:07
+0100 the perfect time to write:

Am 24.11.2014 16:11, schrieb Frank Krygowski:
On 11/24/2014 6:34 AM, John D. Slocomb wrote:
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:41:54 -0500, Frank Krygowski

I've always got at least two safety pins clipped inside my handlebar
bags.

Goodness, don' you have a "pants clip" that clips around your ankle to
hold your pants secure and prevent it from getting into the chain? I
thought all you "old Fellows" had one of those :-)\

As an old fellow, those are what I used way back in the 1970s.

Then I tried large (2") safety pins. No more problems. And the safety
pins are lighter! ;-)

At least during the cool season (temperature below 10°C / 50F), I put
the socks around the pants. OK, it looks horrible but it keeps me warm
and the pants stay outside the chain.

Back when I was a kid, my mum used to tell me off for that, because it
stretched out the socks so they kept slipping down :-)

I thought knee socks slipped down around the ankles was traditional
dress. At least that's the way mine worked when I wore "knickers" as
they were called in the U.S.. :-)
(For our English friends, "knickers" was a USian name for knee length
pants. Perhaps "Plus Fours" in the Queen's Own.


On a more recent cycle promotion in Cambridge, I got (free, which is
always the best price) some "slap-wrap" retroreflective leg bands,
which work very well. Being low on the bike, they light up like
beacons in a dipped beam headlight.
The inside is coated with some kind of flock material, which is very
good at stopping them slipping when worn as trouser bands, although
I've used them every time I've ridden at night since I got them for
the visibility benefit, even when in shorts.
--
cheers,

John D.Slocomb