I wear virtually exclusively MUSA shorts when riding in warm weather and (until now) MUSA pants when riding in non-warm weather. I intend to embrace the idea that knickers would be fine in cool weather so that the temperature "eras" would now be three: 70-up, shorts; 45-69.9999, MUSA knickers; 44.9999-down, MUSA pants.
However, no matter what the temperature, minus 20 to 100 plus (and yes I've ridden in both), I always where some petroleum jelly and wool boxers. The jelly really reduces friction in soft tissue; you'll know exactly where to put it. The wool boxers manage moisture and temperature perfectly. I wear lightweight or midweight wool boxers while riding, either one, in any temperature, all the time; I never have netherworld problems. Not that it's a particularly large amount of riding, but just for perspective: I ride between 4 and 5 thousands miles a year, from 5 to 55 miles on a given day, 6-7 days a week. Wool doesn't sound like it'd work. But it works perfectly for me. It is *definitely* worth a shot. Yours, Thomas Lynn Skean On Sep 4, 4:50 pm, charlie <charles_v...@hotmail.com> wrote: > I have too much of a beer gut to wear any of them....whaaaa! Actually > I purchased the last pair of 3X (or were they 2X) pants and while nice > I must hem them as they are for guys 7 feet tall. I do have the shorts > but they are a bit tight in some ways and loose in others. I like the > (idea) of knickers but am concerned that I may not be able to wear > them at my place of employment and generally because of their semi > nerdy, hippie, mountaineering look. I still can't find a combo that > allows me to ride more than about 20 miles in hot temperatures without > suffering from crotch discomfort. I've tried gel bibs, plain cheap > cycling shorts, athletic breathable undies and plain shorts, regular > shorts and undies, MUSA shorts with regular undies and the best combo > has been my KEY brand logger jeans with suspenders and regular undies > but only for temperatures below the low 70's. Every other combo > eventually bunches up the fabric and gets uncomfortable. Maybe its the > suspenders that are doing the trick..... not sure that the clip on > suspenders wouldn't tear the nylon fabric of the MUSA stuff. Any ideas > for us big boys, I can ride more were it not for the discomfort in my > nether parts? > > On Sep 4, 1:56 pm, "S.Cutshall" <clotht...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Sep 4, 3:43 am, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, I have the attention span of a two year old and somehow > > > managed to buy the shorts instead of the knickers. The shorts are > > > very nice. But I have the most gorgeous legs of any bike riding male > > > in Chicago. When I wear shorts, other riders distracted by my legs > > > collide with stationary objects. > > > Hilarious! Thank you for the laugh [and I agree... same holds true > > for me: ordered MUSA shorts, wife convinced me that they looked good - > > legs & shorts- and then a sat down... WHOA, no way Jose: too much leg- > > too many years at too big a weight. Muscles or not, I am not showing > > that much leg to society, society deserves better. Kept the shorts > > for swimming trunks -swimming in the middle of nowhere, solo- swimming > > trunks]. > > > -Scott- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
