Drying bike gear

veeeffarr · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

How do you guys dry your textiles after you've washed them? (I do mine every month or 2)

I've found it I put them on a radiator with a maiden they smell like shit as they take too long to dry.

Tips?

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instigator · Super Spammer Joined: 19 Oct 2004 Karma :

Wash?

Textiles?

Hmnm...come to think of it, I probably should, I've had them for about 16 months.

veeeffarr · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

I wish I never did.

Last time I washed them they got left on a sofa for a coupla hour... They have that wrong washing smell that gets real bad in the rain...

Same has happened now.

Is shit.

stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

I just don't wash them. Don't wash my leathers (had them 10 years) so I see no reason to wash textiles. If they are starting to stink, I hang them out in the fresh-air on a sunny day. Seems to sort them out.

Tried stuffing them with screwed-up newspaper?
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Dazbo666 · World Chat Champion Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Karma :

I had my textile jacket washed just yesterday.
Hung it upside-down (to empty the waterproof pockets etc) on the washing line in the garden for a couple of hours.
Seems to be good to go again
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veeeffarr · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

I'll try the paper stinkwheel.

If I hung it on the line it would probably freeze Sad

Adam_P · World Chat Champion Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Karma :

I was told by the guy in Hein Gericke that I could put my textiles through the washing machine, but they're half textile and half leather and I'm not too keen.

Perhaps I ought to, I've had them two years now! (Although, I on'y use them about 6 months of the year...)
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Walloper · Super Spammer Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Karma :

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Hex · Party Boy Joined: 04 Feb 2002 Karma :

Considered a trip to the launderette to use one of thier big tumble dryers?

Shouldn't cost that much and at the end of them they should be dry.

Know the smell your on about but don't have any textiles so no first hand experience. Sorry.
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veeeffarr · Super Spammer Joined: 22 Jul 2004 Karma :

Tumble drying is a nono unfortunately Sad

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Kwaks · I'm not a fast rider Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Karma :

only wash the removable liners myself,the outside gets washed by the rain half the time I'm out anyway
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Kwaks · I'm not a fast rider Joined: 28 Jan 2006 Karma :

Aye
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