Leg Shield Giveaway

Grease - it can be your friend or your enemy.  We all love grease when it makes our chain or other bikes parts operate smoothly, but we hate grease when it gets on our "good" clothing.  I actually don't ride in "good" clothing.  I keep my "good" clothing at work and change when I get there.  And for the most part I could really care less about how dirty or greasy my riding clothing gets.  I guess the exception is a rather expensive rain jacket I own, but grease has besmirched said jacket and I just kind of shrugged and got over it.

By most accounts I am not normal.  For example, I never wear matching socks and the first thing I did when a new bike was given to me was scratch it.   Most normal people do care about grease getting on their clothing and if you are such a person, a company out there is on your side.  The fine folks at BikeLegStrap.com are on a mission to keep your pants clean and grease free.  They have created the Leg Shield and want to give one away to a Bike Hacks reader to review. 

Rather than a random giveaway like we recently did with sunglasses, we want readers to share their experience with grease.  Readers are encouraged to send along anything creative that pertains to the struggle with grease that we can post.  This could include, but is not limited to:

• Pictures of dirty bike parts
• Pictures of grease stained clothing
• Poetry
• A story
• A rant
• A video

Submissions will be posted on Bike Hacks for all to enjoy.  Be as creative as you like and send your submission to bikehacks.com (at) gmail.com (include your name and city, state, or province).  The deadline to submit is May 21st, 2012 and the winner will be given a Leg Shield to review for Bike Hacks. 

 

 

Comments

[ralphi]

change the lube you put on your chain to something like the wax based ones and then you don't have to look like a tosser wearing some wanky bit of cloth around your leg /endrant (do not want the prize either)

[Brian]

Gee, I've always wanted to wrap myself in neoprene whilst exercising. It's breathable right?

No thanks.

[Kenny O]

But it wrinkles my freshly creased John W. Nordstrom Flat Front Linen Pants, and my gastrocnemius....I can't like it,

[Ron Ablang]

I've had a few good pants ruined by bike grease (right leg of course).

[Brad Pitcher]

A haiku for you:

I don't like bike grease,
the bane of my existence,
it makes me so mad!

[JaimeRoberto]

I just tuck my pants into my socks for free. It looks a little dorky, but no dorkier than the leg shield.

[atom]

I'd rather just have a change of clothes in my pannier bags.

[i80386]

Go Dutch and do a full chaincase! No worries when riding, but I guess it's hard to find in these here parts.

[Kim]

Wow that's overkill. And what's with focusing on grease? I've been riding for years, in all seasons, and never got grease on any parts of my clothes. I did get my pants and my shoe lace stuck between the chain and the gear though.

The solution is simply to tuck things away. Push the loose ends of your shoe lace back under one of the loop down the shoe. For a while I used old hair elastics on my pants, but now I use MEC's Scotchlite Ankle Strap. Simply pull the pants out, fold it on itself while keeping it tight around your leg, and secure it in place using an elastic or a velcro strap.

No need for a whole leg body armour. This is just overkill. It's already a pain to ride in pants, I don't see this improving things. Not to mention that you're then stuck with carrying this huge thing around at work/school.