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[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/gore-tex-34-shorts ]As previously seen here.[/url]
would like to keep my arse dry on a budget,
Fancy buying [url= http://www.anchorsupplies.com/clothing/waterproofs/ex-british-army-gore-tex-trousers-desert.html ]these[/url],
anyone had experience in tailoring Gore tex,
could I use bog standard seam tape (the stuff you iron)?
Thoughts?
Just sew the bottom seam. It just means the bottom 5mm isn't perfectly waterproof and it will get wet there anyway.
Goretex doesnt seam fray. So you can just cut them.
But for neatness as above just sew them.
Just had a duct tape epiphany!
Sew them? To easy! I'll do just that!
thanks 😉
You could get some [url= http://www.wilko.com/invt/0228241 ]Iron in hemming[/url]
just cut off the trousers fold over an inch or so and then put some of the hemming web in the fold and then iron the fold. It should hold together just fine.
Give us a picture when you have done them 😉
They aren't Goretex, but I've got a pair of old US Army Tiger-stripe camo combats, which were a tad short with regular shoes, so I cut them off just below the knee, which is double-thickness material, folded about half an inch or so over, and glued the hem together with Copydex glue. If you have access to someone with a sewing machine, then using heming tape then sewing them ought to be fine. The integrity of the Gore membrane isn't going to be much of an issue when your knees on down are exposed to the wet...
Don't bother hemming, just cut them as they don't fray, mine haven't in the past 2 years 😀 The crotch waterproof taping has worn off tho 😀
If it is a covert operation, you shouldn't be posting about it here.
you shouldn't be posting about it here.
I'm taking the bottom of the trousers off not cutting the crutch out! 😉
Needle and thread. Sew a hem on the bottom. They are quality, though. When they start to wet out, just bung them in a tumble dryer on hot for about half an hour and you're back where you started.
When they start to wet out
I assume you mean over time? and not on the trail?!
Just leave them as trousers? Never understood why folks insist on having waterproof shorts, when the water them just runs off yer bare legs and inside yer shoes. Bonkers.
Well for me its to stop both pairs of my shorts getting soaked and and muddy and nothing to do with getting wet feet 😀 handy for a bit of warmth for your thighs as well.
I did this with some RAF gore tex trousers, just cut the lowers off and sewed up the ends with the sewing machine. They are a bit tight around the top of knee pads so next job is to open up the lowers a bit, either by a cut up the outside or sew in some of the bottom material as well if I can be bothered.
Did it! £15, measured where I needed to cut them to fit over my existing shorts and pads, No stitching, no webbing, As has already been said, gore-tex doesn't fray!
Fits perfectly,
Test rode them at Bike Park Wales on Monday,
Didn't piss it down but was raining and plenty of mud about, did I get a wet bum?
Nope!
Best £15 quid I've spent on mtb clothing!
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Just leave them as trousers?
Don't be silly!
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Just leave them as trousers?
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No issues with just cutting them down, I'm on about the 3rd pair and never bothered with sewing up the hem.
I did have the issue of the arse slipping down and exposing lower back and top of shorts, as the toggle/elasticated waist isn't very strong. sorted this with some wide elastic and tied it through the waist band to create a pair of built in braces. You do look a bit Simon Cowell when stood about, but no issues with slippage on the bike
Done exactly this with great success. I bought some Gore-tex trousers from British Military Surplus (as recommended by Ton, on here) then I cut the legs off (deliberately long, to allow for turning up a hem). Took them to a local business where the seamstress sewed the hems up for me and also stitched closed the pocket holes (holes that gave access to your trouser pockets beneath, if you were to wear them as over-trousers). Then I just went over the new pocket hole seam on the inside, using some tent seam sealer I already had. All in, £27 (£15 for trousers, £5 for postage, £7 for sewing). Worn them loads and they're mint - dry arse and crotch no matter how wet the trails are. Comfy too. Only tricky bit is buying the right size trousers. Good luck!
I really can't understand why people spend over £100 on waterproof shorts! 😆
I use the cut off bits stitched onto my overall knees so they're waterproof as well 😀