Quote Originally Posted by Bikechic
How do you guys wash your shorts? My hand or washing machine? Mine say to do it by hand but I never feel that they are clean enough when I do that.
Machine wash cold, delicate, "heavy soil," with baby shampoo as Irulan suggested. No softener! A lot of performance gear says not to use softener. I have an overly expensive front-loader, though, so I trust its ability to get things clean on delicate better than I would another washer (but then I may just be succumbing to marketing hype).

Then dry on a rack. This works great in my dry climate, but I can imagine it wouldn't be all that effective in more humid areas.

I wash jerseys, socks, basically any other athletic equipment in the same load, but not my gloves ... My gloves just kinda get nasty. I washed my old pair, and they never seemed quite the same after that.