Anybody tried Slipstreamz?

Ralph Barone

In article <tbhi3g.bv.ln@vcn.bc.ca>, tkeats2005@hotmail.dom (Tom Keats)
wrote:

> In article <invalid-1122BE.22003515062008@shawnews>,
> Ralph Barone <invalid@not_real.ca> writes:
> > I was wondering if there was anything that could be used to reduce wind
> > noise while bicycling, and some idle Googling turned up these three
> > links:
> >
> > http://www.slipstreamz.com/content.asp?subID=8
> > http://www.slipstreamz.com/content.asp?subID=9
> > http://www.buschmantechnologies.com/
> >
> > Has anybody tried any of these products, and how well, if at all, do
> > they work?
>
> I just grow my hair out.
>
> The diff between long hair and short hair in terms
> of wind noise while riding is quite notable.
>
> The beauty of having a lush, VersonGeterix-like, barbaric
> mane is: one can still hear things which are important
> to hear, like the back-up signals of garbage trucks
> squeezing out of back alleys.
>
>
> cheers,
> Tom

Unfortunately, that particular option seems unattainable to me, unless I
can coerce the hair on my back to grow long enough to cover my ears.

Tom Keats

In article <invalid-761B4D.20232322062008@shawnews>,
Ralph Barone <invalid@not_real.ca> writes:
> In article <tbhi3g.bv.ln@vcn.bc.ca>, tkeats2005@hotmail.dom (Tom Keats)
> wrote:
>
>> In article <invalid-1122BE.22003515062008@shawnews>,
>> Ralph Barone <invalid@not_real.ca> writes:
>> > I was wondering if there was anything that could be used to reduce wind
>> > noise while bicycling, and some idle Googling turned up these three
>> > links:
>> >
>> > http://www.slipstreamz.com/content.asp?subID=8
>> > http://www.slipstreamz.com/content.asp?subID=9
>> > http://www.buschmantechnologies.com/
>> >
>> > Has anybody tried any of these products, and how well, if at all, do
>> > they work?
>>
>> I just grow my hair out.
>>
>> The diff between long hair and short hair in terms
>> of wind noise while riding is quite notable.
>>
>> The beauty of having a lush, VersonGeterix-like, barbaric
>> mane is: one can still hear things which are important
>> to hear, like the back-up signals of garbage trucks
>> squeezing out of back alleys.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> Tom
>
> Unfortunately, that particular option seems unattainable to me, unless I
> can coerce the hair on my back to grow long enough to cover my ears.

Like Dorian Grey, I expect I'll eventually get my come-uppance.
In the meantime, for some reason, the older I get, the better
I get. I don't understand it. For all my excesses, I should
be fat, ugly and surly, now that I'm in my mid-fifties.

Today I bought a new pair of jeans. 32" leg, 30" waist.
I had to go down to 30" waist to keep my pants from falling down.
I still sport a voluminous head o' hair, although it's turning
a little salt-&-pepper. And my irises are changing colour from
an undecided hazel to steel blue-grey. My physique is more
ripped than it's ever been, thanks to the physical nature of my
current job.

Life is sure weird.

Riding bike keeps us young.

You don't have to have a bunch of hair. Just maintain your Ka
and life-loving exuberance.

I guess Dorian Grey is the antithesis to Peter Pan.

Both are tragic stories.

My story is more comedic.

What can I say? Riding bike is an happy, life-giving thing.


cheers, & devil-horns / index/pinky-fingers-extended gesture,

Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

Tom Keats

In article <9544c$485d6e91$12542@news.teranews.com>,
A Muzi <am@yellowjersey.org> writes:
>> Ralph Barone <invalid@not_real.ca> writes:
>>> I was wondering if there was anything that could be used to reduce wind
>>> noise while bicycling, and some idle Googling turned up these three
>>> links:
>>> http://www.slipstreamz.com/content.asp?subID=8
>>> http://www.slipstreamz.com/content.asp?subID=9
>>> http://www.buschmantechnologies.com/
>>> Has anybody tried any of these products, and how well, if at all, do
>>> they work?
>
> Tom Keats wrote:
>> I just grow my hair out.
>> The diff between long hair and short hair in terms
>> of wind noise while riding is quite notable.
>> The beauty of having a lush, VersonGeterix-like, barbaric
>> mane is: one can still hear things which are important
>> to hear, like the back-up signals of garbage trucks
>> squeezing out of back alleys.
>
> huh. I probably have a longer mane than anyone here but my hearing is
> deteriorating as is my vision.

Ah, yes. Damn'd reading glasses. Have to put 'em on to see
what yer doing, and take 'em off to see where yer going.
It gets to be a hassle.

Once, at my job, I accidentally ran over my glasses with
a motorized pallet truck. It was a bittersweet moment.

> "had a haircut once; didn't like it"

The wind noise was probably too annoying.

I suppose homemade Slipstreamz could be fashioned out of
a bandana and a few clumps of Christmas tree tinsel.
Or better yet -- handlebar streamers. Or pom-poms.
Or a laurel wreath.


cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

DougC

carlfogel@comcast.net wrote:
>>
>> The diff between long hair and short hair in terms
>> of wind noise while riding is quite notable.
>>

Yea, but then your hair can get in your eyes, too. That's the main
reason I keep my hair short.

>> The beauty of having a lush, VersonGeterix-like, barbaric
>> mane is: one can still hear things which are important
>> to hear, like the back-up signals of garbage trucks
>> squeezing out of back alleys.
>>

The Windfoils are made of a formed mesh type fabric, and they don't
impede regular noises much at all. On me they didn't fit right because
the straps of my helmet didn't hold the Windfoils close enough to the
sides of my head.

....Also I was riding a recumbent bike, so my head was tilted slightly
back instead of leaned over forward--which might have made some
difference as well.
~