Trouser issue

[Kal]

I almost dread to ask but...

In the last few months, pretty much since I have been running the Superdream I have been developing holes in my trousers just above my knee, in all but one case just above my left knee.

The holes look like that occasion I got really careless in chemistry and dropped hydrochloric acid on myself. I would suspect the battery, but it is on the otherside of the bike.

Ideas, anybody?
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[The Artist]

Does it rub on anything?
Is there a battery overflow pipe nearby?
Does your leg skin feel strange around there?

[iooi]

As its the gear change side, are your trousers tight over your knee. And its simply that they are wearing out rubbing against your knee.

Maybe petrol spraying out of the tap while riding.... Rubber pipe Ok and not split ?
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[sickpup]

Do you use a magnetic tank bag?

[Kal]

[Mudskipper]

Moths in the airbox.
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[Feasty]

Perhaps it's worth double checking around the areas that you leave your trousers... Do you hang them up to dry when they're wet? Or leave them anywhere near chemicals i.e in the garage/shed? etc
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[pyx_e]

Maybe it is nothing to do with biking.

Maybe it is where you bite them to stop the screaming while being taken roughly from be............... well maybe not.
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[Kal]

[s44678]

Swine flu.

[L-Jam]

You only have one pair of jeans that you wear around the house, ride your bike and go to work in?
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Brake fluid?
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[Kal]

[Kal]

[ttr]

Doubtful.


But I don't think battery acid would make holes in jeans either, it barely fizzles on a sponge.

I'd be more inclined to blame habitually keeping something in the relevant pocket!

I had a pair of jeans for like four years which I wore all the time, and the weekly zippo overfilling caused one patch of my left pocket to be really thin!

Also my baccy tin has worn a rectangular line into my black hood jeans, it looks silly if it doesn't line up now!
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

Corrosive... very much so. Got some on the back of my hands, skin peeled after a week. I nick gloves from petrol stations now.

Pat
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[ttr]

Aye it is but enough so to make holes in jeans? I'm sceptical, but then I wash when I get dirty bike juices on me
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[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

[ttr]

Could be could be. Never noticed the corrosiveness of brake fluid personally, BUT, never got it on any paint work, and as far as I was aware that's the only thing it'll mess up! Never had any trouble with ze hands like.
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