Originally Posted by
Retro Grouch
I think you just have to experiment.
Road biking you may plant your butt in the saddle and not move it much for an hour or more. If you're doing real mountain biking you're constantly up and down on the saddle as well as sliding forward and back to weigh the bike for up and downhill. It's that sliding forward and back that gets to me. That can really hurt. I use a personal lubricant for that.
Yeah, I do move around a lot while MTBing but I honestly spend most of the time outta the saddle except for while riding along the C&O. I probably should have been clearer in my original post as to what I was looking for. I'm looking for shorts I can use while on the C&O when I'll constantly be ON the saddle as to moving a whole lot. Maybe it's the "posture" of sitting on a MTB that's different from that of the roadie, which is putting weight on different areas. If I ride the C&O wearing road shorts I get no protection in the rear, yet when I wear the same shorts while riding the roadie I don't have any issues and they're great.