This Space for Rent

Well, I’m not sure whether this jersey will work out

Rando tramp-stamp

I bought a nice green Kucharik jersey from Bike Tires Direct a month or so ago, and have been more or less content with it. But it has one big problem in that doesn’t seem to be tailored like a jersey should be tailored – the tail doesn’t seem to hang down any further than the front, so when I ride in the drops it rides up and reveals a slice of my pasty-white skin.

Which does not stay pasty-white after several hours of riding.

I guess what I’ll do is try to force-stretch the rear of this jersey (I’ll find some tenterhooks and stretch the rear panel onto a frame the next time I launder it) and also go out and get one of those spiffy cloud-chamber jerseys that I’ve been lusting over ever since I first saw one (yes, they’re designed for people without a broken chromosone, but if it’s not too voluptuous it should be tailorable to my not-voluptuous-in-the-least figure.) That jersey, at the very least, has a dropped tail that might keep me from getting the sunburn equivalent of a tramp stamp.