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  • An underwear question
  • robgclarkson
    Free Member

    Chaps… And this is really aimed exclusively at chaps!

    Do you wear underpants under your liners? So three layers, pants, liners, baggies…

    Or do you skip on the underpants?!?

    Genuine question as I’ve always done the 3 layer thing but I’ve been advised by mates that the whole point of the liner is that you don’t need underwear….

    A liner just doesnt feel like it’ll be supportive enough…

    Jamie
    Free Member

    Do you wear underpants under your liners?

    No. That’s crazy talk.

    surroundedbyhills
    Free Member

    What sort of “support” pants do you sell?

    gonefishin
    Free Member

    No. The chaffing doesn’t bear thinking about.

    atlaz
    Free Member

    no as well. No point in undershorts and underpants

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Nope. Never. No pants under lycra.

    Sweaty, chafy, bacteria-rich crotch is not a good thing!

    robgclarkson
    Free Member

    Oh… Well, looks like I’ve been doing it all wrong for the last few years 🙄

    I’m going for a ride in about an hour… Let’s see how this pans out!

    DezB
    Free Member

    3 layers?
    2 is the maximum allowed under STW regulations 😉

    sandwicheater
    Full Member

    No, no and sometimes.

    Would prefer not to but if I know the ride is going to be a mud bath I’ll keep my under crackers on. I can then strip down to my pants in the kitchen without upsetting the neighbours too much.

    nickc
    Full Member

    If you’ve always done it, and its not a problem, then on you go.

    mikewsmith
    Free Member

    feeling painful just thinking about it.

    and edit

    I can then strip down to my pants in the kitchen without upsetting the neighbours too much.

    You either need to discover curtains or stop letting your neighbours into your kitchen.

    Jamie
    Free Member

    I’m going for a ride in about an hour… Let’s see how this pants out!

    centralscrutinizer
    Free Member

    Underpants for me, It just seems wrong without them.

    footflaps
    Full Member

    What’s with the liners?

    I just wear proper lycra cycling shorts – 1 layer is all you need.

    thepurist
    Full Member

    There’s only one way under lycra…

    kcal
    Full Member

    nope. not since wore denim cut-offs for shorts. that was a while ago..

    surroundedbyhills
    Free Member

    Some ninja editing going on up there!

    Changed more than your underware Rob?

    rocketman
    Free Member

    feeling painful queasy just thinking about it.

    teamhurtmore
    Free Member

    No

    One layer is all that is needed.

    Two acceptable if you don’t like showing your nodger (a self aware cyclist!!)

    Three – more likely to lead to “ouch” + not necessary

    sandwicheater
    Full Member

    You either need to discover curtains or stop letting your neighbours into your kitchen.

    It’s been on my list for about 2 years. Every time I do it I then remember ‘must get around to fitting some blinds’

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    Those wearing underwear, do you smear chamios cream on your pants??

    Or apply it to the chamios then put your pants underneath?

    *confused*

    sandwicheater
    Full Member

    I’d only keep my keggs on if the ride is less than 2-3 hours. Much more and it would be unbearable.

    Jamie
    Free Member

    Just clicked. The OP is a Never Nude.

    olddog
    Full Member

    Just to be different – I wear nike combat pro undershorts under my cycling shorts. I previously used to wear nothing. As they are tight and lycra they don’t rub and wick sweat away from skin.

    I actually got the compression underwear for running and other sport where I didn’t want my tackle flapping about, but tried them under my cycling shorts and they are fine – plus my, more expensive cycling shorts get less, ahem, directly, err, bodily contact.

    I’ve never had to use Chamois cream – so that isn’t an issue for me.

    I know I fail the cyclist test wearing any form of undershort, sorry.

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    I wear nike combat pro undershorts under my cycling shorts.

    Eh? So you wear these…

    UNDER padded lycra cycling shorts??

    Do you wear baggies on top to complete the sweaty hell?

    plus my, more expensive cycling shorts get less, ahem, directly, err, bodily contact.

    But your expensive cycling shorts presumably have an expensive pad that has been carefully designed to be directly against your body and to flex, wick, breathe, be hygienic and not shift about or bunch up.

    Why would you put something else in there? It’s like buying a luxury soft sofa, but leaving the cellophane on “to keep it good”.

    olddog
    Full Member

    The ones I’ve got are not like that (and I don’t just mean they are not dayglo orange), much thinner than lycra shorts or mtb short liners.

    Hey it works for me – but I know it makes me a failure as a cyclist and a man!

    GrahamS
    Full Member

    If it works for you then cool – I just don’t understand the logic of buying “more expensive cycling shorts” and then slipping a pair of cheap liners between them and your skin.

    You’ve spent that money to get shorts that have good breathable antimicrobial anatomical padding and other comfort features like flatlock seams, seamless panels etc, so it just seems a bit odd to then spend more money to add something in-between that negates most of those features.

    curiousyellow
    Free Member

    I find these help really well with my body shape:

    olddog
    Full Member

    Surely all STWs wear Spanx for Men on a night out anyway…

    http://www.mytights.com/gb/shapewear/spanx-for-men.html?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=spanx%20for%20men&utm_campaign=UK|Brand–Spanx–(E)

    Remember – these a not just a girdle for guys – and – no-one will ever know

    robgclarkson
    Free Member

    Ok, I’m on a mid ride lunch break… This is a revelation!!!!

    Today I have learned how to dress correctly 😆

    As for the ninja editing… I don’t know what you means *whistles innocently*

    pictonroad
    Full Member

    Are you the same Rob G Clarkson that used to have a baby blue golf?

    This is not a thinly veiled euphemism regarding the state of your undercarriage.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    I just wear normal boxers under baggies, never liked chamois and never found any need or benefit from them. Though it’s always possible I’m now as sterile as a mule.

    emsz
    Free Member

    Wear whatever you want? It’s not really anyone else business 🙄

    robgclarkson
    Free Member

    Pictonrod, I am he… Where do I know your name from? Dubmarines or e38? (Or somewhere else?!)

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    Or somewhere else?!

    Everyone on stw has to have their own personal stalker. You got the short straw and pictonroad 😉

    klumpy
    Free Member

    I can then strip down to my pants in the kitchen without upsetting the neighbours too much.

    Try getting changed in your own kitchen.

    (Late I know, but one of the earlier posters really should have thought of it.)

    pictonroad
    Full Member

    Dubmarines from back in the day, I’m one of the reprobates that went and formed F6 Squared. Still mates with all the F6 lads, not seen most of the DM crowd for a few years.

    robgclarkson
    Free Member

    Ah yes… Knew I knew the name…. Hope you’re well old chum 😉

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