Is There a Way to Repair a Hole in Cycling Shorts?

[fidlfreek]

Great option on the fray check!

Instead of sacrificial shorts you could just buy a little lycra at the fabric store. Or look on ebay for used shorts. (There are tons that don't sell for even their initial $1 bid because who wants a used chamois?) Maybe a super crafty local tailor could make the patch on the inside...don't know for sure on that one

[Aggie_Ama]

I have a pair like that, just get a cute cycling wrap. My holey shorts are used for commuting, no one knows they have holes. They also do "under tights" duty. I love those bibs and can't give them the heave-ho for a little hole.

[wackyjacky1]

(There are tons that don't sell for even their initial $1 bid because who wants a used chamois?)

LMAO!

Yup, I think I'll try the Fray Check + patch route. I used to cross stitch, so I'm familiar with the stuff (and I'm pretty sure I still have a bottle tucked away in my cross stitching box).

I have to wonder, though, why she couldn't chew a hole somewhere less embarrassing. Why go straight for the butt-cheek area?!

[spokewench]

Murphy's law!

[RoadRaven]

We have a few holey shorts and jerseys due to crashes.
I can repair the jerseys ok using a zig-zag stitch... but have had no success at all with lycra.
Maybe I need to get an overlocker...?

Our ripped shorts continue to be used... the latest pair is my son's - his first wearing of new shorts, new jersey and almost new gloves and he crashed so well we had to get him a new bike frame! (Carbon doesn't withstand impact well at all!)

So he still wears his shorts on training rides...but I ask him to wear sunscreen under the shorts on his thigh/hip where the road shredded his shorts (and skin).

[malkin]

If the hole is small enough I'm almost always happier with hand stitching than machine. One grandmother taught me to stitch from the inside, but the other granny told me to watch the outside as I worked on a mend so I'd see how it was going to look.

[bmccasland]

I think if you're hand mending, you'd want the least amount of thread on the inside, so that might make a difference on your stitches.

My experience with fray check is that it itches.

I'd either wear the shorts under tights, or got to the fabric store to find some lycra to mend them.

Can you use the stretchy serger thread to darn the various loops back together? The stretchy serger thread would have give that regular thread wouldn't. (for some reason I never saw the photo before).

[RoadRaven]

All this talk of fraying has me confused... we are talking lycra???

Its just that our lycra shorts with road-crash shreds don't fray... so I am confused...