These look ideal, thanks for the link. Wish they did silver ones in all the sizes, but I guess I can't be too picky

Damn that's a classy looking ride.

I just pin the outer-part of my pants using a safety pin so it doesnt hang loose.

Bonus tip: I keep the safety pin on my key-ring so i have one all the time.

1980 to build up a Nice 52 - 36 Double crank I Got a GPM 144 Triple crank With a 36t inner ,

a 222 Campag chainguard , to place on the outside and a 52t Campag GS chainring in the Middle ..

all Pretty and Highly Polished [will sell] now I have some chainguards on my most used Bikes

Salsa, added to the 48t triple (Winter bike), a 50t that I got via BN decades ago (Touring Bike) ,
a 110-38t for my Koga WTR Trekking bike
(It came with a 130-39t kind, part of a crank, made by Stronglight)

The ones that came on my Schlumpf crank, and the one that came on my Bike Friday Rohloff Pocket Llama ..

Bash guards work wonders. It is a crime that all bikes don't come equipped with them. I won't buy a Surly bike for this very reason.

I rode a mountain bike that came with a bash guard for a few years as my primary transportation vehicle. I never had to worry about my pants getting caught in the big chain ring. However, when I didn't strap or roll up my pant legs, my pants would still get noticeably dirtied by the chain. My solution? I showed a family member who works with steel the problem. Within 60 seconds he made a cardboard cutout of the chain guard he planned to make. Then he built it in no time. If you talk to people from Europe their jaws drop and eyebrows skyrocket when they hear that our bikes require rolling up of pant legs or using straps. It is simply asinine. No two ways about it.



I've since given up on derailleur bikes and gone with an internal gear hub bike (IGH) with a full chain case. No more wrapping up of pant leg. Zero maintenance required of chain or cogs. Care-free biking. The others don't know what they're missing.

That or we don't GAF because we wear cycling bottoms.

[MENTION=360044]CompleteStreets[/MENTION], that's pretty clever.

Its a matter of perspective,
They understand as they do "sportive" cycling too, its just that they consider bicycles to be vehicles that can also be used for play, rather than playthings than can be also used as vehicles.

Try checking out a US city that has semi-decent bicycle infrastructure (DC, Portland, NYC, Chicago, Minneapolis). You'll see tons and tons of people who wear their normal clothes for everyday bicycle transportation, not "cycling bottoms." Hence the desire for … oh never mind, trying to talk sense into some of you bike forums people is not worth it. *Smacks head* I'm done.

I have a bike w/ IGH and chain case. I have a habit of rolling up my jeans even when I ride that one because I worry about a pant leg getting caught in a pedal - not while pedaling but in the process of starting/stopping.

My road bike is typical in that it doesn't have a chain case or bash guard. But I'm unlikely to wear jeans riding on that one. It's my fun commuter bike and ride all day in the weekend bike. The IGH bike is my grocery-fetcher/might lock it outside going out bike.

I roll up. It takes a few seconds at the beginning/end of each ride, that's all. Mostly ride in jeans in spring/fall commuting. On my beater I sometimes leave the pants down and just stay in the big ring the whole time, I only ever snag when the chain is on the smaller rings.

On the rare occasion I wear jeans while riding a bike, I just tuck them into my socks. Works in any weather. God, some people can make anything difficult.

[MENTION=365305]kickstart[/MENTION], props on that gorgeous bike!

OP, there's a reason why riding an external geared bike for transportation is limited to the English speaking world and even at that mostly just the U.S. Everyone else rides IGH bikes with a chaincase. There was a brief period around the early 2000's when you'd see a bunch of folks, even in The Netherlands and Copenhagen, riding flat bar hybrid bikes with external gears but that didn't last long and they've pretty much disappeared (though still popular for recreation and off-road stuff)

Guilty though in my case it's usually pegged jeans like it's 1988

Boston, MA rider here. Almost all of the commuters I see have bike specific gear. Some of the inner city/ short travel commuters wear whatever. 18 miles one way, regular clothes don't cut it. Bike shorts, tights, wool base layer, wicking tops, yup. Choices are a great thing. OP has some solutions that will work for him.