I'm starting to come to the conclusion that I can't wear any of the shorts with the wide, compressive leg bands -- not even if I go up a size (then they are too big through the waist and hips). I have yet to find a single pair with the wide leg bands that doesn't give me horrible sausage legs. I seem to carry a lot of fat in my inner-thigh area. Even when I was running track in HS and weighed 120#s I would get wretched "chub rub," as this was the days before Body Glide or Sport Shield. When I wear shorts with the snug leg bands (with or without grippers) I end up with big blobs of inner-thigh pudge that tend to cause shorts to wear-out FAST. So many manufacturers are starting to put these bands on cycling shorts and it's limiting the styles I can wear. I really liked the PI PRO In-R-Cool shorts, but after just 2 rides in a pair had already worn a small hole into one thigh.