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Random Musings => DIY => Skip Bike and Bodge It => Topic started by: mmmmartin on 17 December, 2014, 08:14:05 pm

Title: How to make some pogies from a child's winter jacket.
Post by: mmmmartin on 17 December, 2014, 08:14:05 pm

You can see it is a jacket:
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7496/15857593550_a6646fa06b.jpg)
So why might I do this to it?
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7583/15859106357_19494a0649.jpg)
And then this? (Hint - a sewing machine is very useful, indeed indispensible)(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8617/16019108256_58970fe047.jpg)
then this:
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7490/16044162202_83cf454d7b.jpg)
It then becomes this:

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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7556/16044876235_cbcbe856c9.jpg)

Some of you might have got it by now.
Any answers?

Title: Re: Can you guess what it is going to be? (Points for where it might be used)
Post by: mmmmartin on 17 December, 2014, 08:42:52 pm

Here are some pictures of it on the bike:

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(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8592/15422617194_080669c0a7.jpg)

and on another bike (this for which it was designed)

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(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8572/16044893505_53ab5e931e.jpg)

And because of the reflective on it, this is how it might appear to a car driver at night:

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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7494/15857620560_f0c3774520.jpg)

and from the side:

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(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7554/15859126917_b75763c025.jpg)

And here is what it is called and how I got the idea and why Helen Lloyd and That Emily Chappell are Godesses Of The Cycling World:

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It's called a pogie and Ms Lloyd had some on her trip round northern Norway with Shane Cycles in midwinter when it was minus 20c. I might copy that idea next December, and found on t'interwebs an idea of making it from a charity shop winter jacket. The one I bought cost £3.95 and three or four evenings at the sewing machine.

So there you are. If anyone of all the billions on t'interwebs sees this and thinks it's a good idea, my life will not have been in vain.
That Emily Chappell (a quick Google comes up with her most excellent blog) is off to Alaska. Helen has offered to lend her some of these. I like mine: I made them my own self.

Title: Re: Can you guess what it is going to be? (Points for where it might be used)
Post by: nikki on 17 December, 2014, 08:50:05 pm

Quote from: mmmmartin on 17 December, 2014, 08:42:52 pm

I like mine: I made them my own self.

Amen.

Title: Re: Can you guess what it is going to be? (Points for where it might be used)
Post by: Owthathurt on 20 December, 2014, 04:31:03 pm

Still no idea.... I'm going to hate myself for it but I have to click on the spoiler...................

Title: Re: Can you guess what it is going to be? (Points for where it might be used)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 20 December, 2014, 04:43:54 pm

Excellent! Though personally I've never felt the need for

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I've always known them as bar muffs

when cycling, I have in the past found them invaluable

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on a motorbike.

Title: Re: Can you guess what it is going to be? (Points for where it might be used)
Post by: mmmmartin on 20 December, 2014, 05:36:20 pm

Good point, but on

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a motorbike

are they not

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designed to be very waterproof and windproof st 70mph

and therefore are they not

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too heavy and inflexible

when really what you need is something

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only slightly windproof and not particularly waterproof

?

Title: Re: Can you guess what it is going to be? (Points for where it might be used)
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 20 December, 2014, 05:46:21 pm

I hadn't thought about that, but I suppose it makes sense. Certainly what you made would not be any good for the other situation.

Title: Re: Can you guess what it is going to be? (Points for where it might be used)
Post by: mmmmartin on 20 December, 2014, 06:01:31 pm

Agreed. These were made for wearing if/when I copy this trip:

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http://helenstakeon.com/blog/winter-bike-tour-countdown-fto-day-minus-15/

so they needed to be

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very warm

and to a specification very different from that needed on a

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motorbike

.

Title: Re: Can you guess what it is going to be? (Points for where it might be used)
Post by: Jaded on 20 December, 2014, 06:17:20 pm

What did you do with

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the pockets

?

Title: Re: Can you guess what it is going to be? (Points for where it might be used)
Post by: mmmmartin on 20 December, 2014, 07:00:09 pm

One of the

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pockets

is inside and I left it there for the carrying of unfrozen

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sweeties and chocolate

While another one was on a

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sleeve

outside, so I left it there for the carrying of

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things I might need

While the two very big

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pockets

were quite low on the

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jacket

and were removed together with much material in the initial stages.

[EDIT in December 2016] Pogies. I've added that word so this thread can be found if anyone wants.