I've heard a few recommendations for Rockgardn armour from female mountain bikers. If you already have a set then give them a go.

I have founds chafing is mostly to do with stitching, and with the race face pads the first ride was great, 2nd ride was a longer one (2.5hours or something) and the rubbing developed, a ride or two after that & all was fine again - I have found havint the top straps pretty tight works best.

Interested to know how you go with the rockgardn pads though. If you can, go out for a 30min to 1hr ride with them, if they're fine then you can try a longer ride. But going for up to an hour if there's any real bad chafing you'll make it home before it gets too bad.

The place where I purhcased mine seems to sell the Small size: (it's in Australia though)

http://www.phantomcycles.com.au/prod...7&cat=0&page=2