CycleOps Bike Thong Bicycle Sweat Protector for Indoor Bicycle Trainers
January 17th, 2010 by healthy
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| CycleOps Bike Thong Bicycle Sweat Protector for Indoor Bicycle Trainers Review |
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| Manufacturer: CycleOps |
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CycleOps Bike Thong Bicycle Sweat Protector for Indoor Bicycle Trainers Overview |
| Use the CycleOps Bike Thong to catch corrosive sweat from reaching your frame and ruining your bike during your intense workouts |
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CycleOps Bike Thong Bicycle Sweat Protector for Indoor Bicycle Trainers Feature |
- Includes a convenient removable accessories pouch
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CycleOps Bike Thong Bicycle Sweat Protector for Indoor Bicycle Trainers Customer Reviews |
 It is what it is. |
| Review Date: July 14, 2006 |
| Reviewer: J. K. Stegall, Franklin, TN United States |
| I wanted this item to hold the remote, phone etc...while I road my trainer and it does that as I hoped. It does make getting on and off the bike a bit more of a hassle (not much). It is what is advertised and does what it claims to do. Not a necessity, but serves a purpose if you need to hold items. As far as protecting the bike, any cloth or towel would seem to do as well or better-- if you don't care to use the pockets. |
Bike Thong VS. Towel: Hail to the Thong
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| Review Date: March 31, 2010 |
| Reviewer: John P. Thiel, Astoria, Queens, New York City |
Until I bought this, my only association between cycling and thongs was spotting novice women riders on tours who wore their t-back panties with unpadded running tights instead of proper cycling shorts with nothing underneath. (TIP for Women, and some guys I suppose: We guys LOVE seeing this, it's very sexy, but you would be far more comfortable with a pair of padded cycling shorts sans underwear; the seams on the underwear alone can cause you a lot of discomfort. It would be improper to tell you at that particular moment why we suddenly thought to recommend cycling shorts, so there it is.)
Anyway, yes indeed, it looks like a thong. My wife said it looks like what sumo wrestlers wear.
All funning aside on what it looks like, what it does is keep corrosive sweat off your bicycle paint and frame as well as from dripping into mechanical parts where it can cause component life shortening and performance sucking corrosion. The bike thong is also very effective at keeping sweat from forming a puddle on your floor. By comparison, towels are pretty much useless.
Sure, a towel will keep sweat from getting on your bicycle, but only about as well as a plastic bag. Much of the sweat bounces and rolls off the towel, getting on pretty much everything surrounding you. And when you ride your trainer 45 minutes every day, that's a lot of stankin' sweat to be spreading around some part of your living space.
The bike thong takes it all in without putting the wet terry cloth on your bike, and like the towel it's washable (best to put it in a net when you wash it), so you don't stink up the place.
Some will say they don't mind getting sweat on their bike--just wipe it off--but do you really want to get salt water in the mechanical parts of something that costs the average rider $1500 when you could prevent that damage for $22?
Note also that this item comes with the handy, removable pockets attachment whether it says so in the description or not. The packaging is a single, sealed plastic bag with both the bike thong and accessory pockets attachment inside.
BOTTOM LINE: The Bike Thong wins over the towel and/or cleaning up after yourself. |
Could be wider
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| Review Date: January 4, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Dan H., Milwaukee |
| Overall I like this sweat protector but I wish that it was a bit wider in the middle. If I ride and am not completly bent over, sweat falls and misses the thong. Other than that, I like it and feels that it does keep a lot of sweat from landing on my frame. |
CycleOps Bike Thong
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| Review Date: January 20, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Dale E. Graessle, Bedford, MA USA |
| Good for keeping the bike clean on indoor training rides. Also has a handy device to hold remote controls or MP3 players. Nice little item to keep the corrosion rate down. |
sweat protector
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| Review Date: February 11, 2010 |
| Reviewer: SteveP, |
| Good quality product, but I can't say it is worth the money. I think it should be a bit less expensive for what it does. A good product overall though. It was nice to see the remote pouch came with it. |
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