Fifty Plus (50+) - What is your favorite chamois cream?

What is you preferred chamois cream? Do you use it for all rides or just certain distances? Do you use any other product as a substitute? If so what?

I prefer dznuts and use it for any ride over 30 miles.

I now use DZNuts, reminds of the old Assos cream with the menthol....aaahhh.

Enzo's ButtonHole Chamois Cream

Udderly Smooth. Cheap and effective.

http://www.uddercream.com/orderproductimages/12oz.jpg

Chamois Butt'r, but I also often use Bag Balm or Queen Helene Cocoa Butter Cream. I use Udderly Smooth as a hand lotion, but find it to watery to be useful as a chamois cream.

This time of year I don't use anything usually. No sweat, no need.

Anything water based on dry days, petroleum jelly on rainy days.

Plan old vasiline PJ as we both are allergic to "Witchhazel", a ingrediant that seems to be in "most" of the aftermarket C-creams, rats! :( Anything over a short commute, I use it, the Mrs. only on rides over 50 miles. FYI.

Chamois Butt'r. I use it for rides over 70 miles. I don't need it so much in winter. I use it more in warmer weather when sweating causes chafing.

Bag Balm. Have tried others; always return to Bag Balm.

Rick / OCRR

I ride about 5k-6k miles every year, and I rode across the U.S. self-supported in 2007. Never found the need for it with proper shorts and conditioning. Perhaps your saddle is too soft, or perhaps I'm just a hard a$$.

Rode across the U.S. self-supported in 2007. Never found the need for it with proper shorts and conditioning. Perhaps your saddle is too soft.

+1

Fat in the wrong places can be a problem, too. I'm normal weight (by 1950's standards :) ), so I rarely have chafing problems.

I use Chamois Butt'r only if it is going to be a long ride on a hot day.

"Eurostyle" = tingly taint :):thumb::)

http://www.trigeeks.ca/images/eurostyle_chamois_buttr.jpg

Lately I've been using Beljum Budder. Mostly when I plan to be riding more than 15 miles, or if a bit tender from a long ride the day before (without using it). I did use this every day during my tour in August. But then we were averaging 47 miles per day, fully loaded.

I don't use it either. I can only think of one time I thought I might want to apply some - about mile 175 of a 203 mile day. Didn't have any handy, so I just toughed it out. Was a little sore the next day :)

I ride about 5k-6k miles every year, and I rode across the U.S. self-supported in 2007. Never found the need for it with proper shorts and conditioning. Perhaps your saddle is too soft, or perhaps I'm just a hard a$$.


+1

Fat in the wrong places can be a problem, too. I'm normal weight (by 1950's standards :) ), so I rarely have chafing problems.

+1 +1 +1

Because my bikes fit properly and I have decent, firm saddles (Brooks, of course, with one or two exceptions), I have properly fitting pairs of shorts with chamois that are sized to my anatomy*, and I ride regularlly... I don't need chamois additives.

The only time I apply anything, it is tea tree lotion for localised chafe (usually on the right groin) that might appear after, say, 250km/150 miles.

* I have had great success with Pearl Izumi shorts over five or more years, and it's only now my original five pairs are starting to wear out that I am hunting for new shorts. What I have found is that there is a wildly wide variation in the width of the chamois -- compared with the perfect-for-me PIs. I've discovered a cheap alternative that comes very close, Route7s, from Torpedo7 in New Zealand... so a few pairs are likely to become my training and touring shorts while the PIs will be my rando shorts.

As a further comment, I rarely wear padded shorts on my best-broken-in B17, but rather flat-seam running shorts.

Maybe OldHammerBoy and Wake and I should start the Hard-Arse Club and lobby for a sub-forum here ;) :lol: :eek:

Some of us are fit and trim, ride properly fitting bikes with firm saddles and wear good bike shorts yet we still have the need for some kind of cream or lubricant to avoid chafing, especially on longer rides and in warmer weather. What works for some may not work for others.

Not at the stage of scraping the skin off your butt calluses, huh?

Used to be chamois cream was for keeping real (sheep skin) chamois soft. My wife considers it essential but having tried it myself I find it does nothing for me and is actually kind of off-putting.

Some of us are fit and trim, ride properly fitting bikes with firm saddles and wear good bike shorts yet we still have the need for some kind of cream or lubricant to avoid chafing, especially on longer rides and in warmer weather. What works for some may not work for others.

You Rebel! Fall in line BD. I don't need it, so YOU must be doing it wrong. :roflmao:

"What are you rebelling against?" "What-a-ya-got?"

I've only need it a handful of times. That is, when it's 90F+ and 90% humidity and I'm doing a century ride. When all three of those things converge, I use Chamois Butt'r pre-ride. The inevitable salt build up is less of a problem under those conditions. (My experience has been that it is not the shorts, saddle, time in the saddle, or any other factor except the salt build up that creates problems with chafing.) In two events last summer a friend met me along the route at a place where I could don a clean pair of bibs that were delivered to me. In those situations I didn't need the Chamois Butt'r. And, BTW, I think BD got it right. What works for some may not work for others.

Lubriderm hand lotion works just as well. That leads me to think that other hand lotions may work too.

Lubriderm hand lotion works just as well. That leads me to think that other hand lotions may work too.

For sure. I have used Gold Bond Foot cream in the past and it was actually quite nice.

I've only need it a handful of times. That is, when it's 90F+ and 90% humidity and I'm doing a century ride.

Interesting, I find it most necessary for long rides in the rain; dry and hot is no problem.

Like NOS88, I mostly need help when it is hot and the salty sweat is flowing. In the humid South, this is pretty much every ride for about half the year. On those frequent 90+ days, only the petroleum jelly based applications will make it through a long ride. The creams need to be reapplied every couple of hours and the lotions wash away so quickly they aren't worth the trouble.

Lubriderm hand lotion works just as well. That leads me to think that other hand lotions may work too.

When I looked at the ingredient list on the back of a tube of Paceline Products' Chamois Butt'r it looks like a mixture seen in skin moisturizing preparations.

Never saw the need, myself.

For sure. I have used Gold Bond Foot cream in the past and it was actually quite nice.

We need to repackage both, mark it up 500% and come up with a good name. :)

Chamois Butt'r is my go to here in humid Austin. But I've even used Desitin when I had to.

Better the shame than the pain.

Chamois Butt'r is my go to here in humid Austin. But I've even used Desitin when I had to.

Better the shame than the pain.

+1, That's what I've used. Chamois Butt'r at the start and Desitin after the ride if I'm sore.

The only thing I use is Body Glide, and then only in hot conditions. I just goes to show one how different we all are in our likes and dislikes.
I agree with proper fitting shorts and a saddle that fits. A proper fit to the bike may prevent excess movement on the saddle too.

Don't use any lubricants for riding the bike.

Bag Balm. Have tried others; always return to Bag Balm.

Rick / OCRR

+1; rode over 10,000 fixed gear miles in 2010. Bag Balm is relatively inexpensive and always available in rural areas.

Don't use any lubricants for riding the bike.

Isn't it noisy with all the grinding bearings and the squeaking chain? ;)

The question on Chamois Cream and also Ice Cream has come up pretty regularly. Here's a link to threads that will provide some past information on both very important topics.

http://www.bikeforums.net/search.php?searchid=1852233

I at first recoiled in horror over the idea of using anything - now I use on almost every ride.

Has been mostly Chamois Buttr, but looking forward to trying Queen Helene's. Found it at Walmart for less than five bucks.

Isn't it noisy with all the grinding bearings and the squeaking chain? ;)

No. ;)

I rarely need to use anything (good bike fit, good shorts, good hygene), but when I do need to use something, Bag Balm is hard to beat.
Having said that, my favourite product, purely because of its name is antimonkeybutt (http://www.antimonkeybutt.com/)

I use Boudreaux's Butt Paste. It's a little messy, but it works for me. Caveat - I only use it on really long rides, like over 50 miles (lots of saddle time).

I hope I'm not gatecrashing a thread, but after a couple of pages...

I think the British Special Forces, SAS and SBS, use as a regular ration, some kind of a chainstore cosmetic - when they're jogging in boots for 10 hours carrying 50 lbs packs up New Guinea mountains in 40 C temperatures, they lube with - what is it now? Boots No 7? L'Oreal something? Johnson's nappy cream?

Anyone remember?

DF riders are a hoot!!! If you ride a recumbent, your greasy balls will be in your wheel bearings!!!!!

I'm in the never used/don't need camp.

I use ChamiosButtr for any ride over 30 miles (more liberally for rides 100+). I bought the ChamiosButtr Euro style once a year or 2 ago at the LBS. Kind of liked it, and like the fact it is easier to get to all of it from the tub rather than from the tube. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find it since.

It's expensive, but always Assos Chamois Cream. If I'm going +40 miles I'll use some, but only during the summer months. It tends to get hot and humid down here in Florida.

Never have used it, on any bike, ever.

I don't always drink beer, but when I do it's... wait a minute, that's the wrong commercial :lol:

I don't have much of a need for chamois cream but I tried a free sample of DZ Nuts and liked it enough to send for another free sample. Then I bought a tube at the ToC last year. I love the cooling sensation :eek:

What is you preferred chamois cream? Do you use it for all rides or just certain distances? Do you use any other product as a substitute? If so what?

I prefer dznuts and use it for any ride over 30 miles.

If you ride a recumbent you don't need any!

Nu Butte and Beljum Budder. Both are excellent for long rides (80+) or high mileage weeks as in preparing for doubles. Hardly use any, but it lasts forever. Chamois Butt'r doesn't last for me.

Nu Butte and Beljum Budder. Both are excellent for long rides (80+) or high mileage weeks as in preparing for doubles. Hardly use any, but it lasts forever. Chamois Butt'r doesn't last for me.

Where do you purchase Nu Butte and Beljum Budder?