Originally Posted by
dkatz1
I DO suffer with out it...when i was riding in the summer, wearing ordinary shorts iwth underwear, I would get HORRIBLE itching. And worse. Cycling shorts got rid of that. Maybe depends on how much you sweat?
Probably depends on a lot of things. Any latex, and I'm itching more than possibly could be caused by sweat.
I think there may be more than one group here--people who know they'll suffer, people who think they might suffer, and people who are fine without the special clothes. I also think there's a lot more riding being done by that third group than people on BF might suspect. We get stuck in our atypical sample of cyclists here.