Originally Posted by
NYMXer
I imagine you could go back far enough on many things, but at the end of the day, you have to appreciate it when something good comes along, like padded cycling shorts. Ah, it's about the little things in life, haha
It's only silly when people refuse to give something consideration and suffer because of it. Not all mousetraps are better, but many are!
True, but many, many cyclists find that padded shorts and heavily padded saddles are counter-productive. It isn't stubbornness, it is trial and error.
In case you don't remember, before internet forums you never heard anybody complaining about bike comfort, and it wasn't because of steel frames, I assure you. Many of those were just as uncomfortable as anything ever made. No, it was because they knew how to ride a bike. I cannot remember a riding buddy ever saying that his ass hurt or he was tired out by the beating he was taking. And guess what, that was on 19 mm tires inflated to 120 or more pounds. No carbon, no laterally stiff but vertically compliant BS. Carbon and Ti frames, heck even aluminum, are so much more comfortable now than anything we had back then, and that doesn't even begin to take into account the wide tires, low pressures, carbon rims, carbon seat posts, carbon saddle rails, carbon handlebars, etc. So all this talk about needing heavily padded shorts and/or saddles is just comical. And get off my lawn, dammit!!!
