Cordarounds are biking trousers which solve two problems at once, only to introduce a third. First, oily trouser-cuffs: To protect your pants from your dirty chain you’ll need either a chain guard or a bicycle clip, neither of which is particularly cool. Second — being seen. Of course, lights are essential at night, but reflecting tape always helps, and if it is on your ankle it also moves and catchers a driver’s eye.
The Cordarounds both of these by turning the turnups into reflectors and thereby adding stiffness which stops the cuff rolling down:
With 3M Scotchlite sewn along the inner cuff, a quick upward fold of the trouser leg will render you nearly indistinguishable from a heroic firefighter (from the ankles down).
They also have pull out reflectors in the rear pockets, called mudflaps, for some extra visibility. And the problem? They’re cords, the least stylish pants material out there (after Nylon). At least those ridges run horizontally, not up and down. The pictured pants may be even worse, made as they are for the office — think corporate dress-down Fridays.
If you can stand it, or if cords actually are the fashion and I am just horribly out of touch, head to the site and pick up a pair for $90. The Cordarounds are only available online and made in, where else, San Francisco.
Product page [Cordarounds via Noquedablogs]
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