Signed a real “fat” cyclist

P.S. I haven’t been “only” 180lbs since high school

Sorry you missed it. Also, I’m kinda thinking I’m going to skip a year, jersey-wise. – FC

I’m intrigued mightily now that I thought of it!

Of course Twin Six offering regular FC shorts during the product development period would be nice. I am clearly not the only one with bib short issues! :-)

mmmmmm. tricky problem- closure of the trap door flap on the bottomside of the shorts/ bibs. I would think you would want to get the closure/ overlap interface away from the seat/ body contact area. if you can do this, why not a velcro type closure? It would not be too hard (if you had a pair of shorts your willing to sacrifice) to mock this up and try it. I would think big (on the flat size) as opposed to small. You also have to weigh in the impact of a wardrobe malfunction while on the road. However I’ve seen professional cyclist continuing to race with scant material holding their shorts in place after a crash. Of course these people are being paid to ride their bikes and results takes precedence over modesty

As to the FBBB’s and the “bio hatch” (patent pending btw), I’m thinking something in manner of the static bond you see when you have a big piece of scotch-tape to put on something, and before you even get it close to where you want it sucks onto the very thing you are getting ready to tape but in the wrong place (and then you say bad words as you try to extricate it w/out destruction)…or another example is when the tape staticly adheres itsself together before you could get it into position. To harness that power into a trap-door on bibs would be a powerful idea (it would have to be thin, flexible, comfortable…and stay closed when you want it to, and open zippity-split quick when you need it).

I don’t wear bibs often, and in fact only own one set: a Fatty 2010. They are very nice I must admit…however, on the VERY first time I wore them I had an, uhm, er, gastric compatibility event that came on quite quickly. Right there on the side of the road I had to IMMEDIETLY establish a clear line of sight for my #2 output port (if you know what I mean).

Sheesh…I recall that was something of an ordeal (how fast can you get off all the cold-weather gear INCLUDING helmet AND leg-warmers, and not have any of it lying in the hugely abundent poison oak that was surrounding me). I haven’t been a huge proponent of bibs since. So I think it’s safe to say “I feel your pain”.

I’ll get right on that ‘bio hatch’ design.

Absent an astounding breakthrough in the engineering of bibs, I have just committed to memory the locations of all Starbucks in a 55 mile radius.