Stinky damn pants - phew-ee!

[Steam]

My cordura pants are already stinky again, even after I washed them with Nikwax Techwash just a few weeks ago. Phew-ee! (they are nice and clean though, that Techwash stuff is good.)

I use them about an hour every day, store them in the dry hot-water cupboard overnight and hang them on the office coat-rack during the day. And I do shower often.
Are leather pants less smelly? Or are my legs just a source of miasmic contamination?
Is there a way to keep them smelling sweet? I can't wash them every few weeks.
What am I doing wrong?

Pong!

[Colapop]

You're just a stink fulla ow!!

[Steam]

Oww stink bro!

[skidMark]

maybe get a goldwing with a heated seat so u don't have to piss urself to keep warm

[Coyote]

My gloves became really foul when the bike was off the road and they were left in my wardrobe wet.

Mum cleaned them with Canesten (anti-bacterial wash) and they're perfect. Also my jacket was cleaned with it and it smelled much better and the red was brighter. My gloves turned greenish but that might've been mum trying cleaning my gloves repeatedly with other stuff and the colour was washed out.

Also, turn them inside out and hang them up after using them to prevent them stinking again or not developing a stick so quickly. I try to do that with my Jacket and so far it's working

[Trudes]

Maybe, like, wash! Immmmm Cheeseeeeeee!
j/k

[shadynz]

Also, turn them inside out and hang them up after using them to prevent them stinking again or not developing a stick so quickly. I try to do that with my Jacket and so far it's working

Don't know if this works with pants, but I had same prob with gloves starting out riding and freaked out about the smell... at the risk of sounding like a housewife consulting Nana's Home Handy Hints; baking soda now rocks my world!

I just drop a decent amount - say around a teaspoonful inside my gloves every week or so and it's all good.. You might go through a few packets on a pair of pants though!! :yes:

[Chisanga]

MY COrdura pants stink too lol ... and the jacket.

I find my leathers are a lot better as they let air through etc.

[Steam]

MY COrdura pants stink too lol ... and the jacket.

I find my leathers are a lot better as they let air through etc.

Are leathers less stinky?? That was the other part of my question.

[Chisanga]

Are leathers less stinky?? That was the other part of my question.

Please tell me how my reply was unclear. Leathers are a lot better :)

[Steam]

Please tell me how my reply was unclear. Leathers are a lot better :)

I know, your answer was clear, but others seem equally split on what's more stinky.

[Chisanga]

I sweat a heap less in leather, I find them 10 times more comfortable and when I take them off they smell of leather and not of my filthy rancid sweat.

For me anyway, Leather is 100 times better than COrdura

[klingon]

Steam, do you wear your trousers directly against your skin? I always wear something under them - polyprop on winter, silk in summer :yes: (mmmm silk undies!) That way you can just wash the liner instead of the trou.

[klingon]

I've been thinking about your stinky pants :sick: and I have some more suggestions:

* Someone mentioned baking soda - I think that's the main ingredient in that powder you put in stinky shoes (gran's remedy) but it also has other stuff like (I think) zinc powder. So a shoe powder may be even more effective than baking powder (but more expensive of course).

* When you store your pants in the hot water cupboard can you turn them inside out? You may just be warming them up without drying them out, which could make the stink worse because it would make more greeblies grow. But if they're like my cordura pants you'll need to take out the knee armour before turning them inside out which can be a bit of a hassle.

* Last thought: when you hang them up at home or work, can you hang them near an air conditioning unit or a dehumidifier? Or at least hang them in such a way that the legs are open to let air curculate around inside and dry them.

Right. No more thinking about your stinky pants. :done:

P.S. you might like to consider changing your name from "Steam" to "Drizabone." That might help.

[Steam]

I've been thinking about your stinky pants :sick: and I have some more suggestions:


Heh, thanks Klingon. Good suggestions, I'll get around to it as soon as I meet a woman I like and need to be not stinky.
Yes I always wear my thin work trousers underneath, so it's not sticky bare skin against the liner.

[dogsnbikes]

I find hanging my cordura inside out in the sunlight is a good cure for stinkingness have no problem with my leather gear stinking at all so thumbs up to leather from me:Punk: