chamois reviews? In search of...

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I have w-i-d-e sitbones and a Brooks B68 (wider than the B17), and I like the SheBeest Ultra D shorts best- great chamois.

[MillieNZ]

i love the Shebeest range as well...............

[Thorn]

Doesn't Shebeest use the same chamois as the Terry T-short?

I can't ride the Terry T-short I love the fabric, but the chamois isn't wide where I'm wide. I think that's the other thing--the placement of the chamois inside the short vs. you affects how you'll like the chamois.

The two shorts I've got that work for me (155mm sit bones) are last year's Craft Master short (TE had them on sale for a while). They're a really tight lycra so you get a bit of sausage leg, but the chamois was really wide at its widest and not to wide where it shouldn't be.

But, right now, my favorite chamois is Boure's Elite chamois ( http://www.boure.com/1650.html ) . Wide and not too thick. Not a TE purchase, but you are supporting a small manufacturer which is the next best thing to supporting TE? Can't say that I can tell you what it is like riding in hot weather--we haven't had it yet, but after washing it dries much faster than my T-shorts ever did.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Doesn't Shebeest use the same chamois as the Terry T-short?

No way. Why would they?- they are entirely separate brands with very different designs from each other.
In any case... my Terry-T short has a totally different chamois than any of my SB chamois. Different color, material, thickness, shape, everything. It's also thinner than any of my Lois Garneau or SheBeest chamois's, and so for me it's not my first choice for rides of over 3 hours. The Terry T short is nice for quick 20 mile neighborhood rides though, and the shorts fit me nicely- I have the longs and that helps avoid sausage leg effect.

[Thorn]

...uh...because somewhere on this forum someone once said they used the same chamois manufacturer? And, being the gullible person that I am, I believed them?

Well, then, I'll have to try a Shebeest short.

[VeloVT]

My Terry Bella shorts have a chamois that is very, very similar to the Shebeest SSS short. The Terry chamois is a different color, but they are reqlly very similar otherwise. The SSS short does have a softer, less dense chamois than the Ultra-D's Lisa mentioned, though.

It looks like this year's T-short has the pink Flex Air chamois (the one in my Bellas from last year), but I'm pretty sure the older T-shorts had a different, lower-end chamois...

I'm finding the chamois on my Castelli Visio shorts very, very comfortable -- as comfortable as their lower-end chamois, almost as thin, but much denser and thus more protective for longer rides. (The Kiss chamois is very comfortable too. It's seamless and very flexible, somewhat like the Shebeest chamois or the RS chamois, but depending on how much padding you like you may find it too thin. I have worn my short with the Kiss chamois up to maybe 60 miles comfortably; I haven't worn them on any rides longer than this though).

[Thorn]

OK, picture shopping....

Shebeest Ultra D
http://www.teamestrogen.com/images/p...etch07_xlg.jpg

Terry T-Short
http://www.teamestrogen.com/images/p...lexair_xlg.jpg


Oh, and Jenrod...sigh...and shorts manufacturers like to "update" their chamios. Pearl Izumi's attack shorts used to have a nice wide thinner chamois, but now it comes with a narrower, thicker (13mm) chamois.

Lisa--does that look like your chamois?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

OK, picture shopping....

Shebeest Ultra D
http://www.teamestrogen.com/images/p...etch07_xlg.jpg

Terry T-Short
http://www.teamestrogen.com/images/p...lexair_xlg.jpg

Lisa--does that look like your chamois?

Yes, the pink one is in my last year's Terry T short. The grey one is in my SheBeest UltraD short. Of these two chamois, the UltraD is much denser foam and suitable for very long ride, the T short chamois squashes down easily and feels much more lightweight when you're sitting on it. They are about the same 'puffiness' but the D protects better. Both are wide enough for my VERY wide sitbones. They are both good for different types of rides.