Sweat has an amazing amount of bacteria in it, so it's not completely crazy, just a bit of a stretch. I believe the more likely consequence is that your wallet will end up smelling like really bad BO.

If that roach was any bigger, you'd need a hard hat.

I have a little case that is made up of recycled inner tubes. Works great. Keeps eveything dry even in the most rainy of days. Is small enough that it fits snugly in my back pocket. And by being made of recycled inner tubes I feel like I'm helping save the environment a little bit. Plus the price/cost is right.

i think so so about tubes

I have 2 of those REI folding cloth wallets. My everyday one with the usual cards, etc. The second with just the cards I need for cash and identification plus medical info. Written on paper - info for AAA (the Plus membership covers bikes too, at least in Oregon) and my various insurances. I always wear a cycling tee under my jersey and rarely notice sweat on the wallet. And I can always toss it in the wash. As for fearing germs - I've always believed exposure to the germs of life leads to healthy immune systems. Those who grow up on farms with animals don't die early deaths from the radically unhealthy levels of fecal bacteria, etc. ("Radically unhealthy levels of fecal bacteria" if you believe the clean freaks.)

One nice plus of those cloth wallets is they don't slip like leather or a plastic bag so stay solidly in even jerseys with miserable pockets (and also securing that cell phone tucked inside the wallet). A real plus riding downhill on fix gears.

Ben

My car is a push button start so a fob but no keys. It goes in a jersey pocket. Along with my cell phone and some cash. No wallet required. My phone is my ID.

I just put them in my pockets. Jersey pockets if I'm in cycling clothes. Pants/shorts pockets if I'm not.

Backpack if I'm commuting. If I'm on a training or fun ride, jersey pockets (typically, I instead of my whole wallet, I will just carry a plastic sleeve holding DL, credit card, insurance card, and A.Ham)

People will take offence to anything, and that's their move.

I may not need to give an opinion, and I may not give a popular one - I may even make myself unpopular.. But that's my move.

I'll feed the troll just a little but I'm mostly done with you.

Forum rules

There is nothing chemical, physical or even cultural that makes Lycra for "girls" or, more correctly, for "women". It's a stretchy polymer that is used in all kinds of products. You are likely wearing some of it right now. It's in your underwear and in socks. Does that make it "only for girls"?

But the rest of us get that your point is to say that it's only for people who you think act like girls. We also get that you think "girls" or people who wear clothes that you have deemed "girlish" are lesser beings than your more "manly" self. But, just because you can act like a jerk, doesn't make you "manly". It only makes you a...well, you know.

And, finally, bicycle jersey's with rear pockets aren't made of "Lycra". Most of them are polyester with a specific weave that allows for the management of sweat which isn't something that cotton jeans do all that well. Maybe you have a problem with polyester as well but most of the world, including a lot of very manly men wear polyester of one type or another.

I go with MikeyMK on this one.

His opinion. Lighten up.

There was a time when polyester was a "funny" fabric. Are you old enough to remember the double knit slacks of the 1970s?

Did anyone say fanny pack yet?

All I know if that you're not cool unless you have a phone holster.

https://ae01.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1P2rtL...r-iPhone-5.jpg

So my 80 year old Dad packin' his Jitterbug in a holster can finally claim he's cool. Right on.


-Kedosto

My 89 year old dad's cell phone holder is his wife. I honestly think he couldn't call someone if he needed to, he just hates electronics of any kind.

Your dad is practically Miles Davis cool. :D

Keys - left jersey pocket. Usually accompanied by nutrition of some kind.
Wallet - don't carry one. Typically keep 10 or 20 bucks in a seat bag along with what I need to fix a flat.
phone - right jersey pocket

That leaves the center jersey pocket for stashing a base layer or something I take off if it gets too warm.

I had some bonus points with Pactimo and got this little bag for the small stuff. Fits in the jersey pocket perfectly. I just added a thin piece of foam for cell phone protection.
https://www.pactimo.com/collections/...all-pocket-bag

Rear rack and trunk. Can carry a windbreaker or other clothing, Allen keys, flat kit, lunch/snack, etc., in addition.

You actually don't speak for anyone else on here, and you also don't know what what my point is. You don't 'get' anything.

Your post makes you a.. Well, you decide. And So will others.

I haven't broken any rules, regardless of where your sales pitch bends it.

This.

Dungarees! I think I last wore a pair in 1979, not realising they had a perfect mobile phone holder in the front - perhaps they're due a comeback.. for men..

Yeah i'm happy to carry non-valuable stuff in the panniers, and I keep a list of stuff in them permanently, even when locking it up for a few hours in town. This includes food, occasional extra clothing Inc gloves, bungee straps, pump and patches.

Mikey and cycc, why don't you guys get a room?

I mean.. take it to pms.

Leisure suits. :)