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CycleOps Bike Thong Bicycle Sweat Protector for Indoor Bicycle Trainers | 
| Brand: CycleOps
Category: Sports
Department: Training
List Price: $24.99
Buy New: $16.99
as of 9/9/2010 12:58 MDT details
You Save: $8.00 (32%)
New (22) from $16.99
Seller: EnduranSports
Rating:  8 reviews
Color: Black
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Size: One Size
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 7.6 x 1.8
MPN: 700.CO9715
Model: 9715
UPC: 012527002887
EAN: 0012527002887
ASIN: B000BTA6O0
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Includes a convenient removable accessories pouch |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 8
 Bike Thong VS. Towel: Hail to the Thong March 31, 2010
John P. Thiel (Astoria, Queens, New York City)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
 sweat protector February 11, 2010
SteveP
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Not as great as I would have thought October 5, 2009
M. Bermudez
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
It is a little bit messy with velcro straps hanging down. The front comes with two pockets each can fit one normal size remote. It looks like something that you'd pay $9.99 for. In fairness, the material is a terry cloth type fabric and it is adjustable to fit virtually any bike. It protects the one main frame bar of the bike, but notthing really else. I don't see much value over just wrapping a towel around your bike frame with bungee cords. For floor protection, definitly get a mat.
 Just OK - not great August 11, 2009
MC96 (Austin, TX United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was disappointed when I got it because the thong is not wide enough and sweat still falls on the frame, the elastic band that goes around the seatpost is also too long and the thong feels loose.
Also, it interferes with my computer mounted on the handlebars!!
The part that actually holds the remotes is completely detachable from the thong so I have opted to use that piece only (had to secure it by manually tying velcro straps to bike as they will only stick to the underside of the thong).
 CycleOps Bike Thong January 20, 2008
Dale E. Graessle (Bedford, MA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
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