Smokin Joe
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- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Police officers have been doing just that all day and every day throughout their working lives since the 1960s, I've never heard of any health concerns that have been caused by that.
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numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
As a trike rider back pockets are a pain in the arse 
classic33
Leg End Member
I'm with you on that. I also wonder about men carrying them in trouser pockets.
Of course they're safe. They used to say that about cigarettes too
Carried mine there, chest mount radio holder, for 15 years. Now have breast cancer.Surprisingly (?), it is estimated that about 520 men will die of breast cancer in the UK this year, so phones in chest pockets would not be a great idea for us either if the radiation risk is real...
I've no plans on being one of the 520 though.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Blimey, you really drew the short straws, didn't you!
Good luck with this health battle, on top of the others...
classic33
Leg End Member
Thanks.Blimey, you really drew the short straws, didn't you!
Good luck with this health battle, on top of the others...
Still won't wear a cycling top with breast pockets though.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
I'm with you on that. I also wonder about men carrying them in trouser pockets.
Of course they're safe. They used to say that about cigarettes too
They say that it's safe because the physics of such things has been well understood for a
century. If if you don't understand or believe the laws of physics, considering the billions of phone users worldwide surely something would have turned up if our understanding of physics was wrong
Once a Wheeler
…always a wheeler
They used to:
Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi in the 1950s. Perhaps the aerodynamicists saw those front pockets as a pair of air brakes and banned them from the sport.
As you say, they would still be really useful for less competitive riders.
Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi in the 1950s. Perhaps the aerodynamicists saw those front pockets as a pair of air brakes and banned them from the sport.
As you say, they would still be really useful for less competitive riders.
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
https://www.santinicycling.com/en/d...-jersey-jersey-31.html#/7-size-xl/32-color-ro
There we go, still available, at a price
There we go, still available, at a price
Once a Wheeler
…always a wheeler
Afterthought: the answer probably lies in the tubs wrapped around their shoulders. A high degree of self-sufficiency was essential for racers who could get separated from their service vehicles for long periods. As rider support improved, the need for on-board food and clobber declined so jerseys could dispense with a couple of pockets. From a look at the photographic record, the demise of the breast pocket seems to have occurred around 1970.
Smokin Joe
Squire
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Mid sixties, I believe.
matticus
Guru
That's a good point about self-sufficiency. It would be really interesting to hear from a rider that spanned 60s + 70s, and find out what they carried in the front pockets, but never in the rear!
(handkerchief? Compass? Pocket-watch? Snuff-box? )
(handkerchief? Compass? Pocket-watch? Snuff-box? )
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Once a Wheeler
…always a wheeler
Quite possibly. Here's an interesting pic from the 1969 Liège-Bastogne-Liège:
Eddy Merckx is in second place and is led by a domestique, Rik Van Schil. Merckx appears to have no breast pockets whilst the domestique has a full set. That may well illustrate a progressive transition away from breast pockets as motorized support improved; the domestiques retaining the pockets for back-up purposes.
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matticus
Guru
"Here Merckx wears an early "race skinsuit" prototype, which would be adopted by lesser riders in years to come."