Abstract
Four kinds of lower-body clothing during riding a bicycle ergometer were compared by computing the work efficiency. The efficiency is computed from the ratio of oxygen consumption rate and the mechanical work. The rate of oxygen consumption was measured from the expired gases. Efficiency falls when even a small restriction is caused by a difference in lower-body clothing. It was concluded that the order of utility of clothing suitable for riding a bicycle was a culotte skirt, slacks, jeans and a semitight skirt, fitting the empirical order.
This is one method for investigating the influence of clothing on the human body.
