Originally Posted by
mstateglfr
doesn't add to the OP's question, but cool to know your nuts lack the ability to chafe of feel pain.
5 hour ride in 'sorta whatever sorta normal shorts? Quick math guess puts me at like 85 miles of riding at that point. Good lord- that sounds terrible with 'sorta normal sorta whatever' shorts on.
...and basketball shorts don't sound better.
When I think 'what should I wear for tomorrow's century ride?' I have never landed on basketball shorts.
But I am impressed you do.
yeah, I get infinitely more chafing in tight shorts, especially if they have a bunch of stitching around the soft bits just to hold some hotspot generating padding inside, and I’m really not into the idea of putting a premptive cream all over to solve a problem that only exists when I wear some problem-causing tight shorts.
basketball shorts are pure “swish” and super airy on everything down there, they’re just not aero.
if you ride instead of sit on & tenderize-knead the skin between your sitbones and the saddle, you really don’t need padding