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Men's Big Classic Padded Bike Shorts Cycling Bicycle Biking Black 3XL

A classic padded bike short from Aero Tech Designs. The Classic Short is the ideal short for the cyclist who wants excellent comfort and performance during your ride. Sewn from premium quality, four-way stretch tricot fabric, the Classic Short moves fluidly with the your body while in the cycling motion. This short has a smooth, two-panel construction and a seamless pad that reduces the opportunity for abrasion and saddle sores. For your comfort, these shorts do not have leg grippers but they will stay in place because they are made from the highest quality fabric. The Classic Shorts utlize muscle compression to add comfort on longer rides and reward your hard work on the bike while the cross-grain cutting technique used to construct the shorts maximizes the stretch performance of spandex fabric. Our fabric is four-way, 7 1/2 oz, nylon/lycra, tricot knit - THE BEST! Coverstitched and tacked soft elastic is used for the waistband for added durability and comfort and the crotch padding is multi-layered with padding in the places it is needed most - Perfecto. The pad's surface is a smooth, coolmax microfiber that is laminated to foam and tricot. It is also antibacterial and stays dry longer to inhibit the growth of bacteria. You want Comfort on the bicycle, and that's what these shorts deliver.

Yesssss Man Timo!

Only in Portland during Pedalpalooza could you lead and event called the Short Shorts Scandinavian Pride Ride and over 100 participants will show up!

The pre-ride picnic in Piccolo Park in SE Portland brought around 20. What a feast of open sandwiches with a choice of cheeses included Brunost, the Norwegian brown cheese and IKEA pickled herring and salmon. Also homemade sour cherry jam (Deena!), lingon berry jam, and Lefse! Dan Miller picked up some on his trip to Minnesota, and I don’t know of anything tastier!

As more short shorts arrived, I ushered them to the flag making station with paper and crayons and also Elly was taking portraits in the park. At one point the Yoga by Bike Ride converged in the park. But there wasn’t much intermingling. Soon the tiny park was a sea of short shorts and homemade flags on bikes, ready to parade around town. I asked if there were any native Scandinavians, but we were all Americanized or a Swede for the day. Thanks to Shawn G for bringing a portable ‘bull horn’ so people could have slightly more of a clue of what was going on.

The bike route was done “Viking Style.” At the start, Carl Larson –the original inspiration for the ride* – treated us all to an extended Ladd’s Addition alleyway ride. Through out the entire night we yelled out “Who’s got Short Shorts! We’ve got Short Shorts! We then rode over the Hawthorne bridge to Keller Fountain for a short break, a few folks got in the water, and why not, as we were wearing short shorts.

Then we biked through downtown to the Pearl for another fountain visit at Jamison Square and a group photo. Though the funny thing is as we all got up and posed, I realized our photographers had left the ride. Luckily Tom and couple others stepped in. We headed back eastside, but this time we did it crazy Scandinavian style. We bike over the top of Steel Bridge! On the road! And lastly the ride ended at Norse Hall, where the ladies generously opened up the Oslo Lounge – Horny Troll Bar just for us. And boy were they pleased with our group – now at about 50! Many a drink was poured including the house special, the Horny Troll (orange juice and Akvavit ). The ladies knew I was in charge of this crew and poured strong, and soon I was taking lots of blurry short short pictures. Wow, is it only Thursday?

*Carl Larson was seen in a Norwegian sweater and short shorts on the annual January Palm Tree Ride – and the idea to do a Short Shorts Scandinavian Pride Ride was born!

This is my APRS beacon installed on my Electra Ghostrider Xtracycle at Burning Man 2008. It consists of a Garmin GPS-12 Map attached to a Kenwood TH-D7Ag. The Kenwood has an external mic for operation on 146.52 simplex, and the whole thing transmits via a 2m/70cm Larsen mobile antenna on the back on the bike. Unfortunately, the xtracycle's aluminum frame isn't a very good ground plane for the antenna, and at 5 Watts I still wasn't able to hit the nearest digipeter. Local stations in BRC were able to track me however. I was also able to receive all BRC stations on simplex via this setup; even HTs operating at low power. Transmission was spotty though.

Future upgrades to the bike will include a steel deck in place of the wood one, to act as a better ground plane. I'll also integrate an NMO mount, and very short feedline, in the back of the deck so I can directly attach the antenna.