Originally Posted by
Racing Dan
As I said on page 1, I went ahead and got some unpadded shorts, seamless underpants and a seat with "relief groove" and thicker padding than a normal race seat. Tested it out last night for 2 hours. Its perfectly fine. No chafing or soreness and less sweating. I will test it out some more this month.
As was stated in another post, if 2 hours is your typical ride time and this combo works for you, cool!
For a short ride, this works for me too. Like today, I'll be riding to the LBS, leaving a bike for them to wrench on while I work at a nearby coffee shop. I don't like working in the coffee shop in a kit (that looks silly). So I have some bike-jeans with a non-padded shorts and I'll ride my B-17 - no padding on saddle or shorts. This is going to be about 2 hours total and I know from experience, this works fine.
However, when I do the Almanzo 100 in a couple weeks, I will very happy to be wearing my kit.
Here's another experiment to try (guy in red cap):
The padding is on the saddle, not your skin.
