Patrick, I really like your point regarding thrift store gabardine pants converted to knickers, I'm gonna give it a try. Plus seems to me they'll look great. And the price is right.
-Hugh Los Angeles, CA On Friday, November 7, 2014 3:19:16 PM UTC-8, Patrick Moore wrote: > This is a separate but related question. Who, if anyone, makes knickers or > shorts that rise high enough in the rear (ie, high waist or low crotch) so > that they feel comfortable and cover adequately when you are bent over in the > hooks? The MUSAs, pants and knickers, are marginal in that respect, as are > most of the store-bought knickers I've worn -- Bicycle Fixations, 2 models; > Rivendell; Swerve; and the Nashbars are only adequate because they were out > of Mediums and I had to buy Large and have the waists taken in. > > > Come to think of it, one nice thing about the thrift store pair of North Face > (non-lycra) cycling shorts I have is that they are cut high in the rear. > > > > One virtue of making riding pants out of thrift store kakhis and wool dress > pants is that you can choose those with "higher rise". > > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:01 PM, hsmitham <hughs...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.prana.com/nemesis-knicker.html?color=darkkhakihristian, > > > > My knock on the new (don't have experience with the old style) is though > baggy the waist was super tight with all the elastic, in my case size large. > So I went with Prana' Nemesis Knickers. They're actually climbing knickers > but have very little elastic other than the built in stretch of the fabric. > The opening of the leg area flares some as opposed to cycling specific ones > but doesn't bother me. > > > > I also wear their shorts made of the same fabric. > > > > My knock on other manufacturers of cycling knickers is how tight they are > seeming in my use to be restricted in all the wrong places when in motion. > > > > YMMV. > > > > -Hugh > > los Angeles, CA > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. > > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > > > ************************************* > > [I]n exploring the physical universe man has made no attempt to explore > himself. Much of what goes by the name of pleasure is simply an effort to > destroy consciousness. If one started by asking, what is man? what are his > needs? how can he best express himself? one would discover that merely having > the power to avoid work and live one’s life from birth to death in electric > light and to the tune of tinned music is not a reason for doing so.” > > -- George Orwell, Pleasure Spots > > > Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I > am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the > gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though > I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not money, I am > nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give > my body to be burned, and have not money, it profiteth me nothing. Money > suffereth long, and it is kind; money envieth not; money vaunteth not itself, > is not puffed up, doth not behave unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not > easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth > in the truth; beareth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. . . > . And now abideth faith, hope, money, these three; but the greatest of these > is money. > > -- George Orwell, Keep The Apidistra Flying -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
