Does chamois butter really help?

[emily_in_nc]

Emily--I'm sure you're right. I could spend a small fortune with potions and lotions! And my bootie comfort is certainly important. I've heard a lot about the Terry saddles. OK--let's start with the saddles. What should I look for? My LBS doesn't stock much--small town of 15,000.

I have the Terry Butterfly with leather cover and ti rails (a bit pricy unless you can find it on sale) on three of my bikes. I love this saddle. It's the third one down on this page:
http://www.terrybicycles.com/product...est+All-Around

Terry allows you to ride their saddles for 30 days and return them if unhappy.

If you like blue, you can get a leather Butterfly with chromoly rails (slightly heavier than ti) for a great price right here on Team E:
http://www.teamestrogen.com/products.asp?pID=11429

I recently installed this very modestly priced saddle on my mountain bike and find it to be very comfy as well. I can't really compare it with the Butterfly since I have only used it for riding on the trainer (I am recovering from a broken pelvis), but the price sure is right:

http://www.performancebike.com/shop/...tegory_ID=5211

Performance also often has Butterfly saddles on sale.

Good luck with your choice!
Emily

[CorsairMac]

I rode on 1 Terry saddle - the Sportco and could NOT wait to get it off the bike. All my bikes have either the Specialized Road Sport or Mountain Sport (depends on the bike) for women on them and I LOVE them. I've logged thousands of miles on them without any problems and I don't use any chamois cremes.

So....are ya confused yet AD? LOLOL

Where's Spazz??......now all we need is a Koobi plug!

[Aint Doody]

Well, y'all, I am sorta confused! I went on Cycle OR Week-end ride 60 miles 1st day and 77 the next. I had decided that the Bootie Creme wasn't quite right on the most intimate of tissue. (It sorta stung.) So I used it afterwards on the less delicate parts - from where my legs join towards the center. I think it helped. However, by about mile 72 on the 2nd day I was on fire. I applied the creme after I got off, and it did indeed help. I also had used some of the internal stuff twice a week. It's not hormonal--just vitamin E and aloe. As for a new saddle--I'm really interested in the Butterfly. Thanks for all the input!

[Aint Doody]

One aside--I met one of the wonderful ladies who works at Team Estrogen on Cycle OR Wk-end. She was riding with another nice lady I got in an argument with over which one of us was TE's best customer! We both thought we were! It was a friendly argument. We both looked pretty cute(?) in our purchases from TE.