Regarding Jeans:

- Turn inside-out
- Wash on "gentle" in cold water
- Hang dry outside (preferred) or inside


Nice a crispy. Color and texture will last for YEARS. Will not shrink.



I have some Levis 501s (not shrink to fit) that I've been wearing weekly since 2008 by using this process.

Went to that link and after I answered yes I sat at my laptop for a good 10 minutes trying to sign in while I was already signed in...

DERP.

Today I:
 

You can always dry clean them as recommended on the tag nowadays...

Carleton may not be a personal shopper - but he's got more household tips than Heloise.

Some of my cousins used to own a family dry cleaning business. Dry cleaning jeans (especially with professionally pressed creases) gives you that "Grown & Sexy" look:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4...pmyso1_500.jpg

Not really my thing :/

My first job was there as a kid. FWIW, anything that's not "dry clean only" gets washed the same way you wash items at home. The difference is that they press the clothes while they are still damp right out of the washer's spin cycle. They don't dry then press as most people do at home.

BTW, cotton shirts will last decades this way. For example, I bought my cousin (who ran the cleaners) the same black cotton button down shirt that I'd bought for myself one year. 2 years later mine was toast. 10 years later I look in his closet and see the shirt I got him looking no more than 1 month old.

Hahaha!

It was in my clothes hamper. she isn't allowed in my room. she ****s everything up.

Make her buy you some Rapha bibs, they are glorious.

So today I shattered my PR for my usual out and back loop. 47/17, averaged 20.1mph. By best before that was 16.9mph.

If you guys can go away for a month, and climb some ****ing mountains, do that. Pretty sure this is why my time was so much better:

My usual loop:
http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/123228731


The loop I rode for a month, 3-4 times a week:
http://www.mapmyride.com/routes/view/123226019

You still love her right? :p

Don't worry, my mom has done much much worse.... for a recent ex. feather duster + mac pro internals while it was on. Thank god for apple care and apple giving customer's the benefit of doubt.

boxes are hard, m'kay.

?!?!

ask him if he alphabetizes his socks....

good timing. rapha summer sale starts today! but it appears only the team issue bibs are on sale :(

at work, people turned into five year olds under stress. i told them so. they mad. whatever.

no LBS had a 9spd chain for my conversion. :(

looking forward to giving my wife the Nantuket basket for her bike, for her birthday.

Today I mole

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8303/7...d2d3e8f9_b.jpg

Now frappuccino.

Soon Twilight Crit down in Portland. Last year's was biggest bike race crowd I've seen 'round these parts.

I decided to go fixed finally. First ride went ok, had a lil trouble getting my foot into one of the clips though.:lol::lol::lol:

I don't like the stiff feel of air dried clothes so I put the dryer on "delicate" and dry clothes 15 mins at a time, instead of wet to dry all at once. I also use Woolite for dark clothes on my jeans and nice shirts.

Just got muh truing stand in the mail. woot.

does this mean you were riding SS w/only front brake?

Yup.

just tried watching tv for about 10min. what a bunch of crap. back to checking groups and then reading a book, maybe Netflix later.

going to check the local rattlecan color palette tomorrow. '11 Jamis Sputnik frame that ended up in my garage will either get a metal flake purple or pink paintjob and get built up. i have a local shop that will shoot it, just in case, but i've done frames before.....

Dude, I gave up on TV 3 years ago. It's all Netflix or videos on my computer from here on out.

Today I threw around the mtb for a little bit, got home had supper then went for what I thought would be an easy 10 mile ride on the 930, but wound up having a little sprint against some bozo on one of those dumb elliptigo bikes. Needless to say I smoked the dork.

Oh, is that what that forum is for? I was always confused why anyone would want to post there if you need to specially request access, but I guess it's different if it's the only forum you can post in. :lol:

+1 for inside-out.
I wash on warm with other colors, and I hang dry inside. Probably not as optimal as carleton's suggestion, but it has worked pretty well for me.

Dude, it's the worst. I'm NEVER going back there.

Does anyone else wish there was more time in a day for riding bikes?

There's nothing wrong with night riding ;)

Roads so empty you can pretend you are in England by riding in the wrong direction.