Which t-shirt color makes for the best rags?

[MattTuck]

This one is for you, Weisan. (http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=177297)

Going through some old t-shirts that are soon going to be either discarded or scrapped for rags. Curious what you illustrious and wise folks consider the best color for rags. Is it white, to show where the grease is? But then they go so fast. Or black, to conceal the grease? What about something in the middle, in the blue or yellow spectrum? :hello:

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[Cicli]

The answer is obvous.

[Llewellyn]

The Rapha one :fight:

[mistermo]

This one is for you, Weisan. (http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=177297)

Curious what you illustrious and wise folks consider the best color for rags.


Everyone knows that it depends upon what you intend to rag up.

[OtayBW]

Depends. What color are your bottle cages?

[Louis]

Oh, if only this weren't a "family friendly forum!" There are so many options out there...

[Hawker]

Sounds like another first-world problem to me.

[2LeftCleats]

Those are better than any I currently wear.

[avalonracing]

The Rapha one :fight:

If Rapha starts making rags, they will be the BEST rags that get your bike the cleanest and people here will pay 98% of retail for the used ones.

[Jaq]

If Rapha starts making rags, they will be the BEST rags that get your bike the cleanest and people here will pay 98% of retail for the used ones.

They will be sourced from non-conflict organic Egyptian cotton grown from heirloom seeds. Each one is hand-picked and checked for shape, colour, and density before being loving planted in fertile soils of hidden valleys nestled near the headwaters of the White Nile. Tended by virgins until ready for harvest, the bolls are carefully selected and gently parted from the shrub in a shamanistic tradition that dates back centuries.

The resultant bales are then carried by llamas specifically imported for the task over the ancient trade routes to cottages in northern China, where artisans spin the threads and later hand-weave the resulting bolts of 10,000 thread-count cloth. These bolts are then shipped on outrigger canoes paddled by Indigenous Pacific Peoples to Easter Island, where each bolt is hand-torn into 10cm x 10cm squares, folded thricely, and placed within small, fragrant sandalwood containers, each in the form of a cartouche which, in hieroglyphics, bears the name of one of cycling's greats from years gone by.

We think you'll find that, after you've watched one of our films in which oddly androgynous, highly tattooed men effortlessly wipe vast amounts of pink Himalayan salted sweat from their thickly bearded faces, or spots of dust from their Garmin Edge 1000s, $650.00 per cleansing sheet is a small price to pay.

[Louis]

See, this is why I (and so many others) hate Rapha. Outrageous.

No way in the world am I paying a nickel over $500 per rag.

We think you'll find that, after you've watched one of our films in which oddly androgynous, highly tattooed men effortlessly wipe vast amounts of pink Himalayan salted sweat from their thickly bearded faces, or spots of dust from their Garmin Edge 1000s, $650.00 per cleansing sheet is a small price to pay.

[93legendti]

This one is for you, Weisan. (http://forums.thepaceline.net/showthread.php?t=177297)

Going through some old t-shirts that are soon going to be either discarded or scrapped for rags. Curious what you illustrious and wise folks consider the best color for rags. Is it white, to show where the grease is? But then they go so fast. Or black, to conceal the grease? What about something in the middle, in the blue or yellow spectrum? :hello:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/RcossrHuyCcKwVroyEinyispLpvaRPBjRp2Cgep6TQq91q_5oh cti20KG25pbwj-o85UWObjmWGOMDHlMZvLWms60LutpwDB5i6U_-6w3dB1ID5ZyGqG7GzucqkstY8TT0rq1j17zul2BhEBiiw5y0Ha yNgdyt1uJ6CnatvVOyD3HxVu8Vb4J2w9MQwc_go1t2Dt8Ago2i prZojL7Jukf2XdWCKw4xqLA1dww_Mrwpa_0IgdVHJojvo4r_Lh ELOhkpVyrB-3UcrrJDXDA9fP9C7Od0AO4WdA79S4y-ylsf3K2Vk7_7vdzIoL76X4zHFCGzuvSFBKCNaBvs4INmveNxI4 _wu8L4H4N_q0bqrNkvVUWTzAnk3LuJmJDsvMOJGPrUMqJLOd97 MMB-L2jZnheRPZZKZsDp2sapIxddv5E8i9I-b1WQrLDDz-_lEexVWWm5PLbq-6e7BiBaXOEuQxhsg2tBO6Cyx5_zjQLz43g8cLB-nRIJCM8me2fL8gjs9TuCclKJIe7SK8Ks1JJqLmDCK27AmS4DzA CqlgwRDukEM=w1121-h631-no

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They each have their own uses. Light for chain, dark for clean up after rain/snow/mud rides.

[Frankwurst]

What size are they? Judging from the pictures there is alot of mileage left in those (by my standards which are pretty low). Hell if you consider those rags My wardrobe is a rag pickers dream.:beer:

[Cicli]

What size are they? Judging from the pictures there is alot of mileage left in those (by my standards which are pretty low). Hell if you consider those rags My wardrobe is a rag pickers dream.:beer:

No kidding. The shirts at yard sales are too good for me to use as rags right away.

[RFC]

Paper towels?

[Cicli]

Paper towels?

As shirts or rags?:bike: