I've had it!

[Miranda]

Maybe we should post pics of the thicknesses of chamois if inquiring minds want to know. It's kinda hard to tell from the description of the product.

Sundial... you just read my mind.

I had something with one of my orders that I had to call TE for the first time the other day. The phone service was just what I would expect of the site... awesome. Which, I expressed .

However... if I had to come up with something that might make TE even more unbelievably better, it would be chamois dimensions in the reference library.

I LOVE how you can click on the chamois type in the shorts description, and a pic of it pops up. The dimensions factor could be a CAD overlay, or another window maybe... or maybe even just text. That would be really really hard though if you did sizes within a particular short. Maybe for a start you could pick the most common size... say medium, and just ball park the width AND length in a single text line. This would at least give you an idea of how each brand compares.

Here's a couple things in shorts I own from TE...

EXAMPLES (rough measurement):

Sugoi Gusta size small 20cm wide, puff pad thingy (sorry really techy I know, bear with me) 15.5cm wide, length 30cm

Sheebeest Triple S road short size small 18cm wide, puff pad thingy 14cm, length 25cm

NOW THEN... let's look at my humble bum...
My sitz are 140mm/14cm, and a quick measurement from my sitz bones to my pubic bone is 25cm.

Let's see what happens to my bum in the two above shorts...
The Sugoi covers it all.
The Sheebeest short puts my bones directly on the edge of the puff pad thingy.... which doesn't really stay stationary in a ride, or probably doesn't even go on proportionally... sooo, my chamois isn't quite working there.

Now, the Sugoi Gusta short I LOVE (used for mtb), but might be too thick a material for whatever road saddle I evntually find. I think it's really hard to find a thinner thickness chamois, AND have it be the extra width if your sitz bones are further apart. That is indeed what those old PI Sugars did.

Plus, if you have enough meat on your bum to tightly fill up a small short (as the lycra should be), but enough bum bone to fill up a size med or lrg chamois... that mixes it up even more. Guess that means I have a big ole boney bum.

Umm, I have massive piles of laundry I need to catch up on, but when I do, I think I will take a couple pics of the shorts chamois... like the one old pair of Sugars I hoard for spin class (btw, purple chamois, & sz small W=20cm x L=30cm).