Originally Posted by
canklecat
The padding is too thick, especially around the butt bones. It's unnecessarily thick for my padded comfort saddle, and probably for most saddles. It just soaks up excessive perspiration and takes too long to air dry. While I'm sitting around after a ride having a beer, indoors or out, my nylon and lycra shorts and poly jersey dry quickly, but the butt pads feel soggy an hour later.
For now I'd give the Baleaf padded undershorts 3.5 out of 5 stars, deducting mainly for the excessive padding that holds perspiration too long.
In high humidity or rain, soaking will occur even in the better padding shorts. Many saddles have little padding and that's why the high density padding on the racing type shorts. I never tried this because I mostly ride in So Calif, but would entertain carrying an extra shorts on a long ride where a rest stop is available.
This brings up another point. How can the designers figure out how to keep and saddle contact point with the shorts, air dried. One thing I can think of is a kind of air scoop that channels the air under the saddle into the opening. The other thing is a honey comb design that takes the perspiration away from the skin onto the outer part of the material. Trouble is most perspiration goes faster than drying time.