[OrRando] No one can laugh

paul johnson pjinoly at msn.com
Sat Apr 15 12:30:58 PDT 2006


I saw that too!

It reminded me of a pair of rain chaps I got at REI many years ago (I was in 
my 20's!) I used them for hiking and also in my first years as a tree 
planter as I couldn't afford real working mans raingear at the time.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan France" <susanfrance at teleport.com>
To: "Orrando" <orrando at tire.patch.com>
Cc: "Fm Kentsbike at Fastmail." <kentsbike at fastmail.fm>
Sent: Saturday, April 15, 2006 12:12 PM
Subject: [OrRando] No one can laugh


> I was inspired by Kent's posting today... the rainlegs. I had an old pair 
> of
> gortex cycling rainpants I used to climb Mt Hood years ago... I glissaded
> down in them...so I destroyed the seat.  But I kept them thinking I'd
> recycle them somehow... So today they got hacked up... cut off below the
> knees... the cuffs always ended up in my chain anyways... off came the 
> back
> side, it was destroyed and I never thought I needed anything covering my
> backside anyways as I have a rain coat and fenders that do that.. Left 
> just
> the front and enough of the sides.  Then I hacked up some old knickers I'd
> been figuring I could recycle someday into something, the leg was sew in 
> as
> the back of my rainthings... pieces of elastic just didn't seem like 
> enough
> I wanted more of a wide band. A wide piece of elastic sewn in as a 
> temporary
> waistband until I figure out what I'd rather do...
>
> Now, hop in emm.. pretty comfortable... because there is nothing in the
> backside to constrict... nothing to get caught in the chain, can easily 
> slip
> over my sandals. I sit down, everything that always gets really wet is
> covered..
>
> Fashion statement... Not! Especially in yellow.
>
> Looks like a chance to try em out tonight.
>
> Cheers,
> Susan.
>
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