Re: [CH] Underwear? Very OT

Rael64 (z42dkm@yahoo.com)
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:05:39 -0700 (PDT) 

Honestly, they are designed to be worn against the skin.  The fabric will not wick properly if you put something between the skin and the shorts....unless you're wearing CoolMax undies, which *is* weird if not completely unnecessary (sort of like "yoga shoes"....what?).  That said, just as one can wear undies on the outside of one's pants, one can wear undies under bike shorts.  No law against it.

But when you're doing 50 km down a hill and have your hand down the back of your skin tight shorts, trying to pull the Fruity Looms out of your crack, I do NOT want to be behind you when you crash and leave lots of skin along the pavement.

Makes me think of roadkill.

Anyway, eat mo' possum.

(with chiles, 'course.)

Yum.

Peace, Hendrix, and Chiles.......
Rael"...now balling up a pair and putting them down the front, well..."64


--- On Tue, 9/16/08, Dan Gillis <dangillis@earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Dan Gillis <dangillis@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [CH] Underwear? Very OT
> To: "Sandy Olson" <sandyo@myclearwave.net>
> Cc: "ChileHeads" <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
> Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2008, 5:16 PM
> I spent about seven years riding and training hard for an
> annual cancer 
> research fund raiser held in Massachusetts (the Pan-Mass
> Challenge), 
> which was a two day, 200 mile ride. I always trained and
> rode in spandex 
> which was not always a very pretty sight, but I also wore
> undies.  I'm 
> sure the fashion police would have pulled me over with my
> "tighty-whitey 
> lines" (as opposed to the panty lines that some women
> try to avoid), but 
> I none the less felt much more comfortable with that set-up
> than the 
> idea of just wearing spandex shorts with some foam padding
> in them.
> 
> Just me 2 cents, but if I were you, I wouldn't treat
> bike shorts like 
> they were swim wear.. I'd treat them like they were any
> other kind of 
> functional clothing that you would wear to the gym.
> 
> Have fun on the roads!
> 
> Dan
> 
> Sandy Olson wrote:
> > Okay, guys...
> >
> > I'm going out on a limb here and will probably get
> a ton of 
> > wise-guy/gal answers but here goes anyway:
> >
> > Are you supposed to wear underwear under those Spandex
> biking shorts?
> >
> > After you stop laughing, please let me know if any of
> you are bikers 
> > and how I am supposed to wear these things.  I know
> this has 
> > absolutely nothing to do with chiles and I could lie
> and say I'm going 
> > to wear the shorts while I pick my final harvest
> but...let's face it: 
> > I'm going biking in them!  I've not owned a
> pair of these before, just 
> > bike in whatever I happen to be wearing in terms of
> shorts, jeans 
> > etc.  They were on sale and....you know the program.
> >
> > Of all the groups and friends I have online, this is
> the group that I 
> > could feel comfortable asking for assistance.
> >
> > Thanks..;^)
> >
> > SandyO
> > CH #1146 of the moderate and casual biking persuasion
> >
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