Originally Posted by
Papa Tom
From the OP:
OK, I took the advice posted here and just got back from a 36-mile ride with no (cotton)underwear beneath my padded bike undies. You guys were trying to kill me, right? I gotta tell you, that was the most uncomfortable ride I have taken since I used to ride in cut-off jeans 15 years ago, and now my upper thighs are beet red from chafing.
Never gonna do THAT again!
Well that tells me one thing, your shorts either do not fit properly and or are low end shorts, because for normal people if they were to ride with underwear on the chafing problem would be there. You need to talk to your LBS and see what they recommend because I can guarantee you that less than 1 percent of people that ride bikes will wear underwear.