Re: [RBW] Re: We’re sick of winter so we’re shopping and wool is on the menu

[Leah Peterson]

Well, after Ted’s response I went on a quest to find you men the unpadded merino bike shorts of your dreams…and came up empty-handed. They don’t make such a thing, it seems! I’m gonna write to Simply Merino and ask if they’ll make you guys some bike shorts. There are several women’s versions on the market but just nothing for men!  I know what you mean about cotton being neglected, Ted. I wore these Simply Merino long-sleeved shirts and a down vest all through this cold, bitter winter. Come summer, I’m going to buy some of the Simply Merino tee shirts and see how those do for biking. L On Feb 25, 2026, at 10:48 AM, Ted Durant <teddur...@gmail.com> wrote: 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 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/jlDUCCFMDA8/unsubscribe. To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/bbf90fdc-2de6-470b-9295-3a3a5c93ed8fn%40googlegroups.com. -- 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/B42E1CD0-D354-4136-BA9E-CE47C4797CE2%40gmail.com.