If you don't want/need padding, just use some lycra boxer-briefs with shorts over them, like the Champion-brand ones at Walmart or similar. I usually wear those in the summer with some slim-fitting polyester shorts if I'm doing some short, casual group rides or something.

re: talc powder - it is not advised to make continual, regular use of talcum powder, or anything containing talc like most baby powders. Talc is a known carcinogen and repeated, continual use could become a health issue.

Yay for Lebanon, OR! :)

I have nothing further to add to the above, other than maybe to change your underwear/shorts after the ride if you do not already do so. 2 minutes in the restroom can save you a lot of discomfort.

Good info, Patrick. Talc is a mineral, i.e. a rock. I guess our skin doesn't like rocks put into it.

asmac: cute!

Erm, talc is the ingredient of baby powder, and it is a very fine powder, not "rocks". It is also hydrophobic, so it won't cake, and it lessens friction. It is very useful for your feet, bumb or any other part of you which sees moisture and friction. But hey, it's "rocks" :rolleyes:

Edit:
And as for talc powder being a carcinogen: Most likely not:

http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancerc...der-and-cancer

OK, it's not rocks, it's a rock, ground into fine powder.

The studies about talc as a carcinogen are all over the place, which means there's not much to worry about, compared to the other risks one runs into daily. Especially us non-talc-mining (lung cancer unknown risk combined with asbestos exposure) ovary-less (ovarian cancer unknown risk) male cyclists.

Still, no talcum powder in the world could deal with my sweat. I could literally be called a human river, when I sweat. I don't do sweat drops; I do sweat sheets, which run like an actual river, following the topography of my body straight to my ... er... gluteal divide and groinal areas. Long rides on warm days leave my cargo shorts looking like I sat down in a public fountain or peed myself... My only recourse is to dry off and change into dry clean clothes ASAP after a long ride.

+1 on changing.

David, thank you for the visual description. I think.

I notice that if I'm really hot and sweating, I can continue sweating after showering and changing, because the heat is in my body's core. I know not everyone has this happen. I first witnessed this in a friend who was 300 pounds (136 kg). It took a long time for the heat to leave his body. I'm not so big, so it started happening with me only a few years ago, and not often.

I'm overweight, and yes, after exercise I have to cool down for quite a while before I even think of showering. Fortunately my ride to work is downhill, and unless it's over 30C (86F) I can ride to work at a pleasant pace without sweating enough to need to change. Going home is when I sweat.