Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

yeah but they also piss in their suits so you can't follow everything they suggest

Where else are you going to piss underwater?
Road pros piss in their Lycra and no one bats an eye.

Not that it means you should just leave them, but aren't there biodegradable ones?

Yeah: eyelids and lashes

Ripping those off is painful though

Wimp. If MTBing was easy they'd call it gravel.

eyelids and lashes

Problem solved, @Dammit

Serious suggestion - automotive ceramic coating? I've got specific ceramic coating on all the glass on my Beetle and good gawd it makes such a difference. Some you can use on plastic headlights so in theory anything polycarbonate could work.

Might require a bit of research or a donor pair of specs. I have coating and some cheap lenses around here and a fuck tonne of time.

Serious suggestion

Disappoint

Type 1 beetle?

Not that it means you should just leave them, but aren't there biodegradable ones?

Number of tear-offs I saw on the trail in the Alps (when it was pissing down)= zero.

Number of tear-offs I have seen on the blue (!) trail at Swinley= one.

Not a huge sample size I grant you, but there you go.

yeah, most trails in t'alps have 'no tear off strip' signs on them altho I think wearing them is fine just not chucking them away in the wild.

I've been many times and like you can't recall seeing a single discarded tear off strip

France’s biodegradable tear offs are more biodegradable than British ones?
Thanks brexit

5C / Type 16

I did the ancient retro car thing back in the 90s.

I prefer my cars to start every time thank you.

Soz.

My wife is an open water swimmer and you can buy special stuff, or a bit of washing up liquid on them and wash off seems to work equally well, she swears by that

See!

I tried that in a race once....couldn't relax enough.

Nigel Mansell used to drink water so towards the race he'd get desperate for the toilet and drive faster.

How robust are dropper posts? Currently my bike storage solutions are either wheels off & upside down (so resting on bars and saddle) or hanging from the saddle. I'm assuming that a dropper post isn't going to like either of these. Or am I being too precious?

Sorry to distract from the pissing yourself conversation.

Neither is ideal, cant you get a big S hook and hang it from the frame.

Literally the first google shopping result:

https://muc-off.com/products/anti-fog-treatment

Superman - Kryptonite

Neil - Google

Yeah sounds like some kind of top tube hanger is going to be the way to go, cheers

For something I don’t want, I would point out. I was interested in glasses that, by design, resist steaming up.

But still, that aside- I’m not interested in the advertising copy but rather people’s actual experience, a concept that many on this forum seem to have a very hard time grasping, despite it being in effect a small social network where the value is the contribution of the members.