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View Poll Results: Pants leg roll: drive side only or both?
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Old 11-28-05, 03:07 PM
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I roll the right side only, and in the wintertime, I rock "dazzle drawers"--tiedied long undies which were once available from I goldberg in Philly.
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Old 11-28-05, 03:21 PM
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both sides is totally crucial. i usually roll them way too high, too.
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am I the only one who rocks them both ways. the warmer it is the more likely it is I'll do both legs. When it cools off I roll like LL and when it gets cold for real I just start tucking the right one inside my socks.
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Old 11-28-05, 05:31 PM
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when its not too cold i sport shants w/o roll, when its cold jean/trousers w/drive-side roll or shants with long-johns.
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Old 11-28-05, 05:33 PM
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I do both - my left pant leg has a tendency to interfere with me getting my foot in my toeclip.
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Old 11-28-05, 07:44 PM
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that guy rocking the football socks is biting my style.
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Old 11-28-05, 07:58 PM
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When I roll, I keep the glue strip on the outside edge. I use both thumbs and index fingers to obtain the dovetail.
This is what you were asking about, right?
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Old 11-28-05, 08:43 PM
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drive side only; just enough to keep 'em from getting chewed. back when I was an office goon, I'd forget and spend half the day with my slacks like that.
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Old 11-28-05, 09:04 PM
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drive side only. i usually ride with the same pair jeans. i know when to stop rolling up when i reach the part of the inside of the pant leg that's covered in grease stains.
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Old 11-28-05, 10:28 PM
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**** all those methods... its all about the tightest jeans possible - they don't have anything loose to get caught in there. +1 for white jeans

as far as rolling in its true sense, i tend to look to Ice-T
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Old 11-28-05, 10:39 PM
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Hepburn, but with maybe one more roll on the right leg depending on the weather and the size of the chainring.
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Old 11-28-05, 10:46 PM
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I roll and fold like I was in 7th grade in 1992 again, both sides. The difference is that this time I'm not wearing high-top basketball sneakers.
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Old 11-28-05, 11:37 PM
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both sides if not cabros... and aubrey over kate if i were forced to choose, but why choose if I don't have to?
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Old 11-29-05, 12:09 AM
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theyre both dead, right?
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Old 11-29-05, 06:22 AM
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Originally Posted by natelutkjohn
Never rolled them up, that big bunched-up bit of cloth bothers me more then the occasional greasy pant leg.
For the record.......It's not about the "occasional greasy pant leg". It's about getting your shiat stuck in the drivetrain, which can cause injury when using a fixed drivetrain.
I am 90% Hepburn, and 10% LL Cool J. But I am 100% Cool J when it comes to deoderant chunks and lip-licking.
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Old 11-29-05, 05:05 PM
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amazingly the ratio remains exactly two audreys for every james
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Old 12-04-07, 08:15 PM
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i don't roll at all. I just let my pants be. It's more Zen that way.
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Old 12-04-07, 08:21 PM
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Why the **** did you bump this crap?
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Old 12-04-07, 09:04 PM
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I take my pants off.
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Old 12-04-07, 09:39 PM
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I wear manpris and cutoffs, but for the quick trip to the store or whatever I roll the right only. If for some reason I wear pants and will be riding for a while, I roll both so my left pant leg doesn't flap on the frame/tire and get dirty. So, all of the above really.
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Old 12-04-07, 09:48 PM
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Right leg only. I usually leave it up because I don't like the constant up and down game. I also like the asymmetrical visual dissonance that screams, "Look out world! I am here and I ride a BIKE. HARD."

For real though, I believe my inability to put forth enough effort to roll it down consistently is leading to my left leg being normal and my right leg slowly transforming into that of Benjamin Grimm from the cuff down.
 
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i don't do anything.
i just wear really baggy pants and ride as hard as i can powering and struggling through my ride as my pant cuffs get caught up in the chainring and rip apart.
by the end of the night theyve turned into jean shorts.
i then return home and repeat the process.

i mean, thats the cool thing to do right?
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Old 12-04-07, 10:28 PM
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Man!, I was just bum'd that I alredy voted and forgot what I voted.
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Old 12-04-07, 10:47 PM
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Whenever I roll just one leg, it throws me off balance and I can't ride. I'm all Audrey.
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Old 12-04-07, 10:50 PM
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I hear I do both.
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