Ladies' Undergarments

cosmic

Ok this is a bit humiliating but can anyone recommend decent cycling underwear for ladies?

I've never had a problem before with regular underwear but I went for a lovely long spin on Sunday and was so uncomfortable that I had to turn about and come home after only about 20km (the other 20km coming home were not pleasant!)

Thanks!

Caroline_ie

Do you not wear padded Cycling shorts?

cosmic

I was wearing them but still had the other problem. It's never happened before. Maybe it was just a one off I guess

Caroline_ie

cosmic wrote: »

I was wearing them but still had the other problem. It's never happened before. Maybe it was just a one off I guess

OK I will PM you

StudentC

If you look on chainreaction / wiggle / evans etc (or decathlon also) you can usually find padded cycling underwear, but I would've thought (based on fairly limited experience it has to be said) that if you sort out your shorts and saddle then padded underwear might be a luxury rather than a necessity?!

Caroline_ie

I think wghat Cosmic was saying is that sometimes it's safer to wear proper undies under your padded shorts. Regular ones would make your ride very very uncormfortable ... so I recommend seamfree undies, the best ones would be silky thin and you wouldn't feel them 'around the saddle' ....

StudentC

Yep I agree, seamfree FTW

blorg

You don't need to wear padded cycling underwear under padded cycling shorts, in fact ideally you should not be wearing *any* underwear under your cycling shorts (I will admit I do myself when commuting but I would not if going for a long spin.)

Note ladies shorts have a different shaped chamois to mens shorts and from what I gather it _does_ make a major difference so make sure you have the right one... There was actually a letter in I think Cycling Plus from a transgender cyclist and the idea is as it is to do with skeletal structure rather than the presence or absence of bits you need to go with your birth gender...

Having said that I have a pair of ladies cycling underwear myself which works OK (thanks Aldi) although I have not used them for longer spins

Hermy

blorg wrote: »

There was actually a letter in I think Cycling Plus...

It's Pro Cycling - the one with the Official Tour program.

JacksonHeightsOwn

how can we give advice without seeing pictures of these "said underwear" :cool:

ha ha, as if i could give advice, im just contemplating getting into cycling myself

kona

blorg wrote: »

You don't need to wear padded cycling underwear under padded cycling shorts, in fact ideally you should not be wearing *any* underwear under your cycling shorts (I will admit I do myself when commuting but I would not if going for a long spin.)

Note ladies shorts have a different shaped chamois to mens shorts and from what I gather it _does_ make a major difference so make sure you have the right one... There was actually a letter in I think Cycling Plus from a transgender cyclist and the idea is as it is to do with skeletal structure rather than the presence or absence of bits you need to go with your birth gender...

Having said that I have a pair of ladies cycling underwear myself which works OK (thanks Aldi) although I have not used them for longer spins

Blorg is right its got to do with your pelvic bones, basically men and woned are different.
Also Females have female specific saddles, when you see them they make sense;)

Hermy

What's a woned?:o

kona

Hermy wrote: »

What's a woned?:o

turn the W upside down to a M, then you have a word which commonly follows woman:D

Nah its a typo:o

carav

Had the same trouble until I realised not wearing any under a good pair of cycling shorts is much more confortable..... I surf a lot as well, and used to wear swim wear underneath the wetsuit until I got fed up of being uncomfortable (will refrain from saying why....;)). Much much easier....

If you really don't want to not wear some, then try out the cycle shorts style underwear, they've much lighter padding and are a kind of light lycra material. I picked some up in Aldi or Lidl (Crane sports brand), and they're great.