On Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 5:28:35 PM UTC-6 Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote:
You need shorts to stay put on the thighs and not ride up and expose your skin to chafe against your saddle. This is almost 100% a women’s problem because of the short length of our shorts. I wanted wool. Unpadded merino biker shorts is a TALL ORDER and good luck to you. But I am nothing if not an accomplished shopper and I found the world’s perfect bike shorts with pockets at this company: https://www.simplymerino.com Another timely topic from Leah. In the fall I started wearing my long-sleeve wool base layer tops as what-I-wear-every-day, and all my long-sleeve cotton t-shirts are sulking in the closet, untouched. Also, I've been on an anti-diaper shorts crusade for a while. The only bike shorts I can wear are from Aerotech and they have the thinnest pad I can find anywhere. Aerotech only puts that pad in one model, but luckily I like it. We had a week of nice weather recently and I wore my Ibex wool knickers every day. They had a bit of a pad in them, but I noticed the stitching had worn away at the thighs (it's a problem for guys, too :-) so I just tore out the rest of the stitching and oh man they are so much better. As Leah Wilcox once said, "I worked hard to find a saddle I like, I don't want anything between me and my saddle." Also, referring back to a thread about noticing small changes in bike fit, it was amazing to feel the saddle height after removing the pad. I have a four wool undershorts, a couple of which (DeVold, Ibex) turned out to have too-short legs to be good on the bike. My good ones are SmartWool (from long ago) and Minus33. Wool undershorts and Compass knickers (alas, Jan has discontinued them) are my perfect combo in almost any conditions when I don't want the wool knickers. Thanks for sharing the link, Leah - like what I'm seeing there. Ted Durant Milwaukee, WI USA -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/bbf90fdc-2de6-470b-9295-3a3a5c93ed8fn%40googlegroups.com.
