Quote Originally Posted by cyclinnewbie View Post
I hate shopping....I do like some of the Terry shorts that I've seen online, so maybe I'll try those. But did I mention that I hate shopping????
I share the loathing of shopping. Completely. What a waste of time, when you could be out riding, right?! The good news is that once you've found the short that works for you, you can get a bunch of them and you're done for a while.

I was a fiend about looking for jus the right chamois. I wandered around feeling the chamois of every pair of bike shorts I could get my hands on. I ended up with a Shebeest and a PI. The Shebeest had a chamois that was really thick, but I only planned to use it for 3+ hour rides. As it turns out, the PI chamois just didn't fit me well, and now I have 3 pairs of those Shebeest shorts.

As far as the undies or no, chamois or no, sort of debates ... I really thought I was fine with just about anything. And then this winter, when I was riding about 50 miles a week on the mountain bike, 30 miles a week on the road, in wet and sometimes muddy bike shorts (where'd that damned fender go?) ... without getting into TI territory, I'm thankful for having found a chamois that works for me, a saddle that works for me, and finally finding the "butt'r" of choice that works for me. That was a painful 6 weeks of training and trial and error, and adding underwear to that situation would have made it infinitely worse.