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Having newly become environmentally conscious (read that as "my car's engine blew mortal huge chunks") I have started riding my bicycle to work everyday.
My workplace is one of those wonderful few which provides me with a place to shower and change; however I then get to pack around an unopenable
bag of toxic reeky clothing, which have begun to slightly ferment by the time I have to put them back on for the ride home at the end of the day.
To the rescue: a gym bag, either battery powered or plug-in, with a small intake fan in one end and a charcoal filter at the other. A set of wires holds air passages open through the packed exercise clothing.
So at the end of the day, I can at least change into something dry. It might not be fresh-washed, but at least it's not moist and putrid.
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+1 to the newly pleasantly fragrant [lurch] |
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What's not to like here? [+] |
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Exactly, [Ian]. Hand me back that bun [-]. |
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Ha. "mortal huge chunks." |
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marked-for-category-change
product:weapon:biological |
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Indeed, [Grogster], I hadn't thought of this! [+] |
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hmmm, perhaps a baking soda comaprtment may be in order. |
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Industrial fan for my gym bag. [+] |
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Perhaps a small barrel, like a clothes dryer, that rolls the clothing over every few seconds, to aerate them a little and allow the fanned airflow through? |
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It could be run off a battery that's charged from a small generator powered by the pedaller's efforts during the trip that caused the clothing's skankiness? |
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What about those centrifuges that squeeze water out of swim clothes? If we can distribute the clothes so they don't all just compress to one end, and force air through the contraption, it should all dry in a snap. |
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If you're tumbling them anyway you may as well add a
liter of mildly soapy water, tumble, drain into a catch
compartment, add a liter of clean water, tumble,
drain again, then tumble until they're dry... |
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This is probably quite a silly suggestion, but if you were to
invest in *two* sets of cyclewear, and somehow develop a
rucksac with *two* compartments......no, you're right; this
could never work. |
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Nah, you'd just spill coffee on both of them. |
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//...no, you're right; this could never work.// |
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Huh? Tell us more about this *two* idea of yours,
[Max]...Is it like *one* set of cyclewear, only
somehow....different? Maybe the opposite of one...? |
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//Cycle naked, like everyone else.// |
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This could work! While your clothes are drying on
the fully emerged and erected clothes horse, you
simply ride home naked. One of those simple,
brilliant ideas. |
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//*two* sets of cyclewear// I've wanted to - but my current backpack is hauling my stuffy conservative black&whites, laptop, lunch, towel & fresh undies. Adding even a single Mento might make it explode without benefit of carbonation. |
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//small barrel, like a clothes dryer// hmmm... that has possibilities. I wouldn't pack it on the daily commute, just leave it under the desk. The inner drum could even be one of those twist-to-collapse thingies, zippered mesh on the ends; the bag, forming the outer shell of the dryer, equipped with hoops to clear the drum, and roller rods like one of those lapidary-polisher set-ups. I could just jump in the shower with my cycling duds still on, run through a rinse cycle, peel 'em, bag 'em, and toss 'em in the dryer when I'm back at my desk. |
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Does your workplace not have a garden with two trees or posts where you could erect a clothes line? |
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There's a nice pair of trees, one on each side of the receiving dock truck entrance... |
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+ great for the beach, too! |
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