Question about bike shorts and commuting...

**Geonz** · 09-22-2006, 07:30 AM

Okay, now it makes sense :-)

Happy slime-skipping commutes!! See how long it takes you to get to a "commiting century" - 100 trips!

**Tater** · 09-22-2006, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by Geonz

Happy slime-skipping commutes!! See how long it takes you to get to a "commiting century" - 100 trips!

Woo-hoo! I am over a century. I will have to count the rest of the days in the year to see if I can squeeze out a double, though!

**GLC1968** · 09-22-2006, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by Geonz

Happy slime-skipping commutes!! See how long it takes you to get to a "commiting century" - 100 trips!

Oooh, what a great idea! I'm off to see if its possible get a century in before the end of the year....

**cherinyc** · 09-22-2006, 10:42 AM

hey - just contributing my 2 cents. When I commute to/from work, I turn the shorts inside out and wipe down the chamois with a clean baby wipe, and then let dry - hung up all day. It probably doesn't do much as far as bacteria is concerned (that stuff probably goes deeper than the surface) but I think it just gives me peace of mind.
Baby wipes are such a wonderful invention. After a long ride, when I have sweat a lot, having baby wipes in the car to wipe the scratchy salt off my face is sooo refreshing. And they're much cheaper than the Olay, or Ponds, etc facial cleansing wipes. I always figure that with the regulations being pretty strict with baby products, pretty much anything that says "baby" on it will be pretty gentle or soothing.
Good for you for commuting!!

**postiechic** · 09-23-2006, 06:20 AM

an ultra thin panty liner isnt a bad idea for keeping the chamois a little fresher/dryer for the commute home and a 2nd day's use from a pair of shorts.

**Veronica** · 09-23-2006, 06:34 AM

Originally Posted by Tater

Woo-hoo! I am over a century. I will have to count the rest of the days in the year to see if I can squeeze out a double, though!

Hey no fair. I don't work 200 days.

I have commuted 106 days this calendar year. Not bad when you consider I have the summer off.

V.

**BleeckerSt_Girl** · 09-23-2006, 07:31 AM

Watch out Cheri and Postie!- the forum anti-pantiliner/babywipe police are going to come after you!

Lisa "Don't get between me and my pantiliner" Johnson

**KnottedYet** · 09-23-2006, 08:27 AM

Originally Posted by Lisa S.H.

Lisa "Don't get between me and my pantiliner" Johnson

Snortin' coffee and rice milk out my nose, thank you very much!

Kitsune06 · 09-23-2006, 01:09 PM

wellll...
since I've only got one pair of biking shorts, and a million and a half sets of coolmax/drifit/whatever underwear, I just wear the underwear under the shorts and bring a spare pair for thru the day/ride home... It doesn't cause me any chafing issues to do so.

I probably wouldn't worry, I'm certainly not a neat freak, but I have a vague fear that my chamois would get sort of... uncomfortable being used 2x with nothing between me and it... and only one pair begs me to reuse as often as possible between washes. why do they have to be so expensive?!

**Lise** · 09-23-2006, 06:47 PM

The only reason I *don't* wear my undies under my bike shorts when I ride to work is because then the undies would be sweaty. So I wear just the shorts, wipe down and pull on undies when I get to work, then pull my bike shorts back up over my undies at the end of the day. Chamois Butt'r is never slimy--always fully absorbed into either me or the chamois!

As a women's health care provider, I would rather use my own bike shorts twice than overclean myself. Our culture is so obsessed with being "clean" that women are taught to over-clean, over-perfume, over-deoderize their vaginas, and it causes no end of misery. Many infections are caused by "feminine cleansing products". Our bodies are self-cleaning in that sense. When we interfere with over cleansing, the "bad" bacteria proliferate, because the "good" bacteria aren't there to control them.

**postiechic** · 09-23-2006, 09:49 PM

Watch out Cheri and Postie!- the forum anti-pantiliner/babywipe police are going to come after you!

yeah I'm pretty scared

**postiechic** · 09-23-2006, 09:52 PM

Originally Posted by Kitsune06

and only one pair begs me to reuse as often as possible between washes. why do they have to be so expensive?!

I hear ya.......although I have 2 pairs...just a tad better than having one

**light_sabe_r** · 09-24-2006, 04:51 PM

I'm with Postie on this one.

carefree barely there liners are FANTASTIC with bikeshorts. I have a pack at work and a pack at home and just rip em off when I get to work.

In my little cubicle I have a bar under my desk where I can dry my cycling gear so all the cycling gear is there drying during the day.

**7rider** · 09-24-2006, 06:03 PM

[QUOTE=light_sabe_r;126429]I'm with Postie on this one.

carefree barely there liners are FANTASTIC with bikeshorts. I have a pack at work and a pack at home and just rip em off when I get to work.

QUOTE]

I'll wear them once a month (I'll spare the description of the "when") only when I absolutely have to. I find they get all wadded up and in the way through pedalling when I wear them. Yuck.

**Tater** · 09-25-2006, 07:48 AM

Originally Posted by Veronica

Hey no fair. I don't work 200 days.

I have commuted 106 days this calendar year. Not bad when you consider I have the summer off.

V.

Yeah, but then there are those beautiful summer days when I am stuck on the inside wishing I could be outside and you can just hop on you bike and go! I envy your summers off!

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