Tuesday, July 08, 2008

We want the funk

You can smell it when you can smell it. It's in every cyclist's cupboard.

There's simply no way to cycle over 5 miles in this DC summer without ending up smelling like something which just crawled out of the local brackish pond replete with rotting vegetation.

While I'm fortunate enough to have a gym across the road from work such that I can shower after cycling in, there remains the question of what to do with the funk. I place all my clothes in a plastic bag, seal it, and lock it in a drawer until the cycle ride home (ew) but after a couple of months of cycling 100m+ per week my office retains a certain, how you say, odeur.

While this is brilliant for minimising time people want to spend in my office during meetings, I'm wondering if there may be a better way to control the Empire of Bacteria in my lower office drawer. As a secondary brain teaser, I'm wondering if there's a way to dry my stuff out without paralysing the entire office space with Eau du Smythe.

Answers on a postcard please!

Leave a mini cooler in your office to store your stanky junx in. Coolers keep the stank from escaping... I learned that the hard way by forgetting something in a cooler for two weeks. NAAAAASTY.
By Blogger visslebits, at 1:04 PM  

Viz, I'll need something slightly larger than that. 5 x cycle to work clothes + 5 x weights at lunchtime + 5 x change into work clothes = a pile of nasty smelly shite. Perhaps I should install a fridge. Hmmm!
By Blogger CatSpit, at 1:06 PM  

Fridge! Brilliant.
How about you just leave your clothes dangling on your bike in the garage (is that where you lock up your bike?) to aerate? Like an aluminum tubed clothes-line.
By Blogger Adam HH, at 8:24 AM  

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