cyclingnovice
Reged: 25/08/2008
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Is it true that cycling shorts should be worn next to the skin with nothing underneath?
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 1614
Loc: Wickerman land,Scotland
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Yes very very true with a layer of chamois cream!
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Smokin_Joe
Reged: 09/06/2006
Posts: 1677
Loc: Fishguard
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Yes, the point of them is that the padded insert has no seams to cause chaffing against the skin.
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
Posts: 380
Loc: location, location
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Yes very very true with a layer of chamois cream!
Udderly Smoooooth is great
www.wiggle.co.uk/p/Cycle/7/Udderly_Smooth_Chamois_Cream/5360036098/
They've cottoned on and produced a special cycling version. The first couple of pots I bought had to come from a tapestry supplies website. Cannot cannot cannot work out the link between needlework and udder cream...
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rover1971
Reged: 09/06/2008
Posts: 261
Loc: Aberdeen, Scotland
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In all the years I've been cycling I've never used Chamois cream....am I weird? 
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 1614
Loc: Wickerman land,Scotland
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Cannot cannot cannot work out the link between needlework and udder cream...
Nipple piercing?? 
Udderly smooth is good stuff.
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 1614
Loc: Wickerman land,Scotland
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Go on rover, once you go to the soggy side you will not go back!
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
Posts: 380
Loc: location, location
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If you're really unsure, ask someone to help you apply it. I can guarantee you'll be converted.
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Bicycle riding as little as three miles a day will improve your sex life.
- Dr. Franco Antonini
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rover1971
Reged: 09/06/2008
Posts: 261
Loc: Aberdeen, Scotland
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If you're really unsure, ask someone to help you apply it. I can guarantee you'll be converted.
Nobody going anywhere near my arse with cream!
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Former Deeside Thistle loon!
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rcruise63
Reged: 27/03/2007
Posts: 476
Loc: Consett
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In all the years I've been cycling I've never used Chamois cream....am I weird?
For a cyclist - wierd 
For the rest of the human race - perfectly normal!
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wuverley
Reged: 16/05/2008
Posts: 1490
Loc: Man of Kent
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I'm with you rover, chamois cream was necessary when shorts had leather chamois seat pads, to make it soft, with modern foam and gel, whats it for?
You are all wimps
Or something....
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 1614
Loc: Wickerman land,Scotland
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Ah well wimp I am! extra comfort wins every time!
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rover1971
Reged: 09/06/2008
Posts: 261
Loc: Aberdeen, Scotland
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My first ever pair of cycling shorts, when I were a lad, had a real Chamois. But my Mum ruined them by putting them on the radiator to dry! I wasn't a happy chappy!
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Former Deeside Thistle loon!
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
Posts: 380
Loc: location, location
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More like a chappy chappy?
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Bicycle riding as little as three miles a day will improve your sex life.
- Dr. Franco Antonini
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bfergie
Reged: 19/04/2008
Posts: 1614
Loc: Wickerman land,Scotland
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your on blistering form tvr!
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tvrbird
Reged: 21/06/2008
Posts: 380
Loc: location, location
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Dammit, I was trying to avoid the blistering form - see above udder cream comments.
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Bicycle riding as little as three miles a day will improve your sex life.
- Dr. Franco Antonini
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scm
Reged: 24/06/2006
Posts: 1228
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In all the years I've been cycling I've never used Chamois cream....am I weird?
Well, if you're weird you're not alone - I've never used it either. I have got a tub of Assos cream but I've never yet felt the need to use it - as has been said, modern synthetic pads are wonderfully soft (although I never used to use cream in the days of real chamois either).
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colnagodream
Reged: 06/04/2008
Posts: 325
Loc: Langholm, Dumfriesshire. 10 mi...
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Used the Assos cream  ,a bit tingly at first , but startin' to enjoy it now!
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CattlegridConspiracy
Reged: 25/04/2008
Posts: 276
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i agree with the no need-ers.
have never used it nor had any consideration to. my specialized and nike shorts are prefectly comfortable dry and spongy
rather they didn't feel like i've just sat in a puddle.
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Sly
Reged: 07/02/2008
Posts: 730
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On my first Sportive I kept feeling a dampness on my lower back as I was driving the short distance to the event. I realised when I was using the facilities that my nappy cream had "squidged" over the top of the padding and seeped out through the lycra. I felt somewhat self-conscious throughout the day, and my wife wondered about the white stain on her car seat.
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