Do you really need padded shorts?

[screenman]

I always take the lining out of my Speedo's.

 

[Drago]

 

[Globalti]

You don't need heavily padded shorts; thick squidgy padding makes you hot and sweaty as your sit bones sink in, transferring the load to soft tissue. You need a well shaped saddle and a thinnish but dense pad, which resists creasing and folding.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I hate any kind of padding, my own is enough

 

[screenman]

I rode a bike once this year without padding, I was a bit painful in the saddle the next day. Never again.

 

[ColinJ]

I always take the lining out of my Speedo's.

Don't stand in front of any bright lights at the poolside!

 

[ayceejay]

If anyone is padded in the area between 'that area' and a saddle I think there may be a connection problem when you 'plug in'.

 

[screenman]

Don't stand in front of any bright lights at the poolside!

Are you kidding, that is why I do it.

 

[ColinJ]

Are you kidding, that is why I do it.

"An astonishing revelation ..."

That's what the elderly woman in the pool said!

 

[screenman]

"An astonishing revelation ..."

That's what the elderly woman in the pool said!

Blimey, do you know Sheila?

 

[mjr]

Haha, its because ive no natural padding down there that I reckon I need them.

I'm bony-arsed and ride unpadded. Good saddle selection becomes more important but it's fine. Like the OP, I remembered riding unpadded in the 80s and 90s, so after some problems following the usual advice to engage in a never ending search for a decent pad, I switched one bike to a 1980s replica saddle... then another... then a third to a 1970s...

 

[Dogtrousers]

I rode thousands of miles in the 80s in jeans or shorts from milllets and it never did me any harm.

Although I do recall one summer when the tour song went "I've got a knackered bum and. ... I wanna get off, I wanna get off" To the tune of something or other.

 

[Pale Rider]

I rode thousands of miles in the 80s in jeans or shorts from milllets and it never did me any harm.

Although I do recall one summer when the tour song went "I've got a knackered bum and. ... I wanna get off, I wanna get off" To the tune of something or other.

Probably the chorus to this:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0nlygb1Qfw

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've been cycling for over forty years and I've never used padding.

 

[screenman]

I've been cycling for over forty years and I've never used padding.

Do you ever try anything to see if it improves things? A guy I know does not like the way a 29er rides, he has he admits never sat on or ridden one though.