Hincapie Power Lycra shorts - good or bad?

[Eden]

That's the evil backside eating chamios .

To be a bit more fair - I did not have problems with it on shorter rides - but there were several times (and I think it was only one of my two pairs of shorts that had a rough seam) on longer rides and once when it had been very wet and gritty that I took those shorts off and had what could be described as a small shark bite on my heinie... a lovely crescent shaped gouge in my backside from the stitching on that chamios - not, I think, from contact between the seam and the saddle, but more from the sawing action of the seam against my backside - it was up further on my rear than the saddle contact area. Slathering up the seam with chamois butter had a minimal relieving effect. I have other Hincapie shorts with a grey chamios and those are just fine, but I don't recommend risking the red one.