Some bike tools are just PANTS!!!!!!

[ColinJ]

I have a few pairs of old boxer shorts which have seen better days so I have been ripping them up to use as cleaning rags. Then it struck me that the wide elasticated waistbands would be just perfect for cleaning bike cassettes...

Brush degreaser onto the cassette with an old toothbrush, then stretch the Boxerwaistaliser along the cassette and pull back and forth. It can clean both sides of a sprocket simultaneously!

 

[ColinJ]

PS I hadn't finished there - that cassette is really clean now!

 

[figbat]

Not the first time they’d been forced into a dirty crevice?

 

[ColinJ]

Not the first time they’d been forced into a dirty crevice?

Speak for yourself - you could eat your lunch off my old pants***!








*** Well, you could - I'm not saying that you'd actually want to!

 

[PeteXXX]

I thought this thread was going to be about tools made of cheese..

 

[fossyant]

Primarni or Calvin

 

[Ian H]

Old clothing is very useful for rags. The rags are reusable - I've even washed them for reuse. The use of throw-away wet-wipes for bike cleaning (or almost anything else for that matter) is difficult to justify.

 

[Jameshow]

Being in Yorkshire im sure you put them back on!!

 

[ColinJ]

Primarni or Calvin

Those were probably CaLidl, though I do have some PrimAldi too. The latest batch were bought on Amazon. I think my boxer-donning technique has been to blame for the premature demise of the garments... I have been pulling them up and down by the waistbands, which eventually pull away. I am trying to remember to pull the main part of the garment instead now.

Old clothing is very useful for rags. The rags are reusable - I've even washed them for reuse.

I use much of my old clothing as rags. Sometimes by just continuing to wear it!

I have never thought to wash and reuse rags though...

Being in Yorkshire im sure you put them back on!!

I do have some standards, don'tcherknow!

 

[T4tomo]

I tend to use old work shirts as rags, and have already discovered the collar, cuff and that thicker bit the button holes are in serve the same purpose, with the added advantage of being subject to less ridicule when you reveal this to strangers on the internet!

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Hundreds of miles of more skids

 

[Deleted member 35268]

Pants for Cogs not Logs.

 

[steveindenmark]

We have a massive store a bit similar to primart but they also sell tools , bikes, boat kit and everything else. They sell horrendous t shirs for 10p that nobody ever buys. I go in occasionally and buy half a dozen and use them for rags. Its cheaper than buying rags.

 

[geocycle]

I’ve got a stash of old towels and the edges are ideal for cassette cleaning. The towel itself does a good Mickle method and ex washing up jay cloths are my frame cleaner while the old pan sponges do the wheels!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I thought this would be about Colin accidentally falling onto the cassette whilst wearing just his boxers.