cotton slacks????

i wear jeans, carry pants in backpack. if you roll instead of fold, you don't get your pants wrinkled too bad (i.e. look good enough for a druggist - probably not if you're a high powered executive!)

get leather boots like a motorcycle cop, tuck them in!

Option one, pull sock down, pull pant leg tight to the front, push fingertip into it & Foooold it across, raise sock, Pantleg is now smoothly inside the sock.

Or, do the same thing, just not so tight, then roll panleg up a couple of turns, like wrapping a towel after a shower.


Or, get some elastic & some velcro & build a band to wrap around
or, gitchyerself some Boots, Dude..

Buy a set of chaps. Protect your legs in more ways then one. Muffler, asphalt and cold air.

EJID wrote on 10/19/10 at 06:50:49:

I haven't done this, but in the '50's - early '60's it was my job to polish my dad's boots and puttees.  Dad was a motorcycle cop.
Puttees cover the pants/calf.  Are quick on/off, with a buckle on the top and a steel slot/tab thing at the bottom.  These look like ones the dad had:
http://www.paradestore.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=277  $250

These are older style with top/bottom straps:
http://www.goldenagemotorcycleclothing.com/puttees.htm  $125.

Wear a kilt.

If you have a Dyna or other form of aftermarket muffler, go to a motorcycle place or a boat place and buy some 2" wide fiberglass stripping tape.   Get at least 10-15 feet worth of continuous tape.

Take your muffler and header off as an assembly -- don't break the clamp joint (you will be wrapping over it, so snug it up a bit while it is still on the bike)

Wrapping instructions given here pertain to a Dyna muffler -- do not wrap a stock muffler as it holds in heat and you will melt certain non-metalic mounting parts if you wrap over them.

Start as far back on the muffler as you can, going as far back as your mounting bolt goes through the bracket if you want to maximize coverage.  Glue the start point down with something (muffer putty in the squeeze tube works good for this). Give it one full straight wrap and reglue as you go past the start point again.  Then wrap it on a gain keeping a at least a quarter to a half of the wrap overlapping the last round.  Stretch things a bit to make the wrap conform to the conical shape changes of the muffler and pipe.  

Tip: A thin stripe of  muffler squeeze tube putty on the back side of things gives "a tie down point" to each wrap turn as you make it and keeps them all from coming unraveled should you lose tension momentarily.

Wrap her on up over the joint and up the pipe at least as far up the pipe portion as your toes can go at full leg extension.  Then spot it good with putty and do a full turn in place and glue the cut end down with muffler putty so it doesn't show on the back side of the pipe.

The muffler putty has squeezed through the mesh as you went along making a push through line along the back sides of everything.  Match that with a thin finger line of fresh putty applied along the back side of the entire wrapped length.  This anchors your wrap job very nicely.

Optional but very smart is some fine single strand stainless wire (got mine from Walmart in the picture frame area in Hardware) twisted up tight with pliers around the start and stop points of the wrap job and again at the joint area on both sides of the muffler/pipe joint.  

Eventually you are going to want to cut the tape to take the muffer and pipe apart, when you do that stop the unraveling with a heavy smear of muffler putty all the way around at the cut point (apply before you cut it) and have the wire already there to limit the fraying mechanically.

Good news, if you have white fiberglass wrap and get it stained with dirty  motor oil it will burn itself back to white in about 3-4 months.  The stain will eventually become unnoticeable.

The fiberglass wrap will prevent polyester pants from melting on your exhaust system IF you cover enough of the muffler and pipe to hit all the places your pants can hit.


Fair Warning -- your muffer and pipe will discolor (blue) everywhere you cover it with wrap -- so expect this and accept it ahead of time.