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Old 03-04-21, 07:45 AM
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big chainring 
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Sergal wool shirts with real leather chamois. If you didnt start out riding with these you have no clue. The shorts when new were exquisite to wear and ride in. Washed only by hand in Woolite and hung to dry. After several washings the chamois would start to toughen. After a few months of washing and wearing the chamois turned to a cripy hard shell taco. Chamois cream didnt exist or at least not in the states. Compounding the condition was the quick dry method employed by most cyclists. Wash in Woolite and put the shorts out in the hot summer sun to dry. At that point in the riding season your butt was toughened like an old baseball mitt. That taco shell chamois was easily siftened by butt sweat produced by wearing wool in 90 degree heat. Those were the good old days.
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