Flatulance...

[2Loose]

I am impressed by the silencing properties of padded shorts

Mine seem to add reverb, rather than dampen the sound.

 

[matthat]

Mine seem to add reverb, rather than dampen the sound.

I hope your nickname does not happen whist easing 1 out!!

 

[hopless500]

 

[Cheddar George]

It's one of the downsides of riding fixed. Relaxing enough to let one go while you are constantly pedalling is, at least for me, impossible.

I have the same problem when i am running, it ends up coming out as a series of short farts, one with each stride. It sounds like an irate duck.

 

[TheDoctor]

It sounds like an irate duck.

Have a Like for that!!

 

[Chris Norton]

With a nickname like Nifty, I have a somewhat obvious reputation for farting. I'm a cheek lifter on a bike.
I do always admit to the crime though, that way when I say it wasn't me, it wasn't me.

 

[ComedyPilot]

With the 3 holes on my Brooks, I can play it like a flute.....

 

[Saddle bum]

I once took pork-haslet and piccalilli sarnies along on a 100 miler, I was never allowed to the front to do the pace making.

 

[Moon bunny]

Does anyone know if it's bad for you not to let the gas out? I mean, where does it go if you can't?

Where ere you be, let the wind blow free, in church or chapel let it rattle, for it was the wind that killed me.
(Apocryphal tomb inscription).

 

[Archie_tect]

I take lansoprazole for reflux, boy it doesnt half free you of wind.

Mine doesn't....

 

[PpPete]

It's one of the downsides of riding fixed. Relaxing enough to let one go while you are constantly pedalling is, at least for me, impossible.

Less easy than on a geared bike for sure, but the ability to lift a cheek and let one rip is considered to be the pinnacle of the fixed rider's art.

 

[bof]

Less easy than on a geared bike for sure, but the ability to lift a cheek and let one rip is considered to be the pinnacle of the fixed rider's art.

If you dont lift your cheeks you get a sound like a higher pitched blowing a raspberry, so I am led to believe. I find cycling at speed makes me fart more, I reckon I must swallow some air into my stomach as I pant away.

 

[vernon]

I have the same problem when i am running, it ends up coming out as a series of short farts, one with each stride. It sounds like an irate duck.

Is that when you are fartlekking?

 

[PeteXXX]

And for those that need a boost ..

 

[captain nemo1701]

I don't suffer with flatulence... I quite enjoy it.

Downhill, on the drops, lift off the saddle slightly and 'hit the afterburner'. I am impressed by the silencing properties of padded shorts

They can be invaluable in the acoustic department but tend to 'slow release' the gas so that it follows you around a while longer. It's not much of a problem outdoors on the bike (although a mate of mine once got a hit from me whilst riding close behind). In shops though it has the potential for embarrassment. I had a little 'warp core breach' in WH Smith last week while thumbing through the cycling mags. Boy, it could have stripped paint off a door. Exit bloke in cycling shorts without buying mag (I didn't want to expose the poor girl on the till to lethal radiation).

Anyway, here's George Carlin with some invaluable advice on the social etiquette of farting in public.