Originally Posted by
rsbob
Why spend the dough on padded cycling shorts if you don’t need to? If you are comfortable in whatever, good on you.
Sometimes it's preferred to use unpadded bibs, however, majority of them are padded with a thick material. Even the "Tri" advertised bibs tend to have the thick padding.
It's very difficult to find competitively priced full length bibs with the thin
chamois area stitched in them.