Hi Karen,

I agree with the mtb suggestions, or buy the underwear liner with pad and wear under regular baggies. That's what my son did, until he went on a 3 week bike trip where they required cycling shorts. He then realized how much more comfortable this was. He was also 14 and it seems like in 1999 he got a lot more heckles than today. So did my husband; once they were sitting on a bench in West Acton and someone screamed out "fags" to them....
My husband goes anywhere in his bike shorts, even when we ate lunch on Martha's Vineyard and he got more stares than me it didn't bother him!

Robyn