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Atsko (also known as Penguin) sport wash will get out that smell, guaranteed. In the wintertime just hang your washed clothes on a drying rack, either wall-mou

Atsko (also known as Penguin) sport wash will get out that smell, guaranteed. In the wintertime just hang your washed clothes on a drying rack, either wall-mount or free-standing or what have you. "Free" humidification. Also air-drying works a lot better with front-loaders, which you should be using anyway because they use vastly less water and detergent and are much gentler on clothing. My expensive-ish cycling clothing, after a ride, goes straight into a bucket of lukewarm water (spandex/lycra deteriorates in strength and stretch very rapidly at surprisingly low temperatures) with about a third of the bottlecap of sport wash. I give it a good swish and go shower. I give it some agitation after I'm done showering and changed. At some point I'll rinse it thoroughly. The cycling shorts get rolled up in a cotton towel and stepped on to wring them of excess water. Everything goes on a clothes hangar out in open air. If I'm riding again in the morning, or if it's humid, I point a small fan at everything so that the pad dries out quickly.

JohnBooty 3y ago
In the wintertime just hang your washed clothes on a drying rack, either wall-mount or free-standing or what have you. "Free" humidification I agree with this. I have tried a number of humidifiers (evaporative and ultrasonic) and they are all freaking maintenance nightmares in one way or another. Nothing comes even remotely close to wet towels or wet clothes on a drying rack with a little fan pointed at them. I sleep with a fan on for background noise anyway. Thick bath towels will soak up enough water to last a whole night or more.
- TylerE 3y ago
  The problem is just how much water air can hold... humidifying even a small room takes gallon and gallons.
  - JohnBooty 3y ago
    Can you share your thinking here? That doesn't seem right. A cubic liter can hold 0.017 mL of liquid water at an average room temperature. If I'm borrowing this math correctly that comes to less than a liter of water in an average room at 100% humidity. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%280.023+atm%29*%281+L%29%2F%28gas+constant+*+298+K%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%280.023+atm%29*%281+L%... Certainly, when we look at the tanks of popular humidifiers on Amazon, the tanks hold less moisture than a rack full of wet laundry particularly if there are wet towels. I haven't measured this objectively but commercial humidifiers and the "wet clothes on a rack plus fan" method both palpably raise the humidity in a room.
    - TylerE 3y ago
      A 3 meter cube is 27000 liters. So, yeah that holds about half a liter of water. That’s great if it’s a sealed box, but it’s not. Homes are leaky, and typical HVAC systems will replace all that air at least 5 times an hour. So that’s 2.5 liters, or about 2/3rds of a gallon… per hour. Now of course this is assuming worst case of going from bone dry to fully saturated, but even if you want to raise it 20 or 30% the numbers would be a third of that, but still. Humans are very sensitive to humidity. I don’t doubt your towel setup makes things feel more humid, but if you were to actually measure it with a hygrometer I bet the actual number is changing way less than you think.
TylerE 3y ago
That sounds more exhausting than the cycling.
- r00fus 3y ago
  I don’t do any of that for my inexpensive cycling jerseys and bibs. Delicate load like the labels say, but with max spin. Normal detergent. Then I remove them to hang dry them immediately. If I suspect one may smell bad, I hang dry it in the sun or next to a heating vent. No problems for years.
- 0_____0 3y ago
  I just throw my cycling bibs in the wash on warm (with the rest of my laundry) and then pull them out to air dry. Spin cycle is pretty good at getting most of the water out, with any airflow they're dry in the morning.

JohnBooty 3y ago

In the wintertime just hang your washed clothes on a drying rack, either wall-mount or free-standing or what have you. "Free" humidification I agree with this. I have tried a number of humidifiers (evaporative and ultrasonic) and they are all freaking maintenance nightmares in one way or another. Nothing comes even remotely close to wet towels or wet clothes on a drying rack with a little fan pointed at them. I sleep with a fan on for background noise anyway. Thick bath towels will soak up enough water to last a whole night or more.

TylerE 3y ago
The problem is just how much water air can hold... humidifying even a small room takes gallon and gallons.
- JohnBooty 3y ago
  Can you share your thinking here? That doesn't seem right. A cubic liter can hold 0.017 mL of liquid water at an average room temperature. If I'm borrowing this math correctly that comes to less than a liter of water in an average room at 100% humidity. https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%280.023+atm%29*%281+L%29%2F%28gas+constant+*+298+K%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%280.023+atm%29*%281+L%... Certainly, when we look at the tanks of popular humidifiers on Amazon, the tanks hold less moisture than a rack full of wet laundry particularly if there are wet towels. I haven't measured this objectively but commercial humidifiers and the "wet clothes on a rack plus fan" method both palpably raise the humidity in a room.
  - TylerE 3y ago
    A 3 meter cube is 27000 liters. So, yeah that holds about half a liter of water. That’s great if it’s a sealed box, but it’s not. Homes are leaky, and typical HVAC systems will replace all that air at least 5 times an hour. So that’s 2.5 liters, or about 2/3rds of a gallon… per hour. Now of course this is assuming worst case of going from bone dry to fully saturated, but even if you want to raise it 20 or 30% the numbers would be a third of that, but still. Humans are very sensitive to humidity. I don’t doubt your towel setup makes things feel more humid, but if you were to actually measure it with a hygrometer I bet the actual number is changing way less than you think.

TylerE 3y ago

That sounds more exhausting than the cycling.

r00fus 3y ago
I don’t do any of that for my inexpensive cycling jerseys and bibs. Delicate load like the labels say, but with max spin. Normal detergent. Then I remove them to hang dry them immediately. If I suspect one may smell bad, I hang dry it in the sun or next to a heating vent. No problems for years.
0_____0 3y ago
I just throw my cycling bibs in the wash on warm (with the rest of my laundry) and then pull them out to air dry. Spin cycle is pretty good at getting most of the water out, with any airflow they're dry in the morning.