I'm late to the party here but let me throw my experience on the pile: I prefer to ride in street clothes: cotton underwear and jeans to ride to work or across town. Shortish rides, say 25 miles: shorts and underwear.
This is on mostly B-17s. I've come to the conclusion that I can lose weight, but it won't make my sitz bones much narrower. I bought a B-68 from Rivendell last fall but haven't mounted it yet. While we're at it: the Cambium C-19 feels a lot like a B-17. Last year, I thought I'd figured this out, or trained my butt, or whatever, and started doing longer rides in the spring... and then it got humid and I went on a 45-mile ride and my (synthetic) Costco shorts sand-papered the back of my legs, just below the cheeks. I didn't even notice anything beyond mild discomfort, but then I took a shower and discovered I had chafed my legs bloody. Took a week to heal, never again. I don't like bib shorts, but I'll wear regular cycling shorts for longer rides; the price is washing them by hand. A good compromise is Andiamo shorts under street shorts, that protects the legs from shafing, and the padding is minimal. That will work for all but the longest rides. cheers -mathias East Lansing, MI On Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 6:31:50 AM UTC-5 Frank Burkybile wrote: > Ha! It makes me wonder how they came up with the idea of using meat as a > cushion? Kind of like who was the first person to figure out which > mushrooms you can eat? Or which toads to lick? > > Reminds me of a time in my college days where we took a road trip across > Texas and tried cooking a meal on our engine while we drove. I assume it > worked better than the steak trick but then again I’ve never tried it so > who knows? > > On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> All actors were professionals, don’t try this at home, but I recall a man >> who belonged to our church 20 + years ago who had moved from Denver to >> Albuquerque in mid-winter riding a KMart mountain bike over the Raton Pass. >> He told me how, back in the 1960s, he and friends would ride from LA to San >> Diego wearing whatever they had in lieu of real cycling clothing, which >> meant, for shorts, cut-off jeans. To prevent chafing they’d stuff steaks >> down the crotch; I don’t know from steak cuts, but these must have been >> quite thin ones. Apparently steak was much more affordable back in the >> early 1960s. I expect that the steaks stained their Brooks saddles a nice >> oxblood color. >> >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM Eric Marth <eric...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> .. In warm weather I like to lubricate my under carriage with coconut >>> oil to prevent friction and chaffing >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/rbw-owners-bunch/cfbOToQj2sY/unsubscribe >> . >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvzXLCyA%2BPK-%2B%2BTQisfLLyPuETSoBfcpBcCmkZ2SR4B-Q%40mail.gmail.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgvzXLCyA%2BPK-%2B%2BTQisfLLyPuETSoBfcpBcCmkZ2SR4B-Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/7522fd2f-fa4a-4d65-8c73-b611e4b3db7an%40googlegroups.com.
