What make of chamois cream do you use ?

no seriously
I'm curious to know what everybody recommends and uses.
I'm looking for a change and all the ones I've tried to date smell so strong they would stun a herd of Bison at 100 yds :shock:
Are there any out there that are moderately fragranced or better still no fragrence? or just smell mmm great :roll:

I'm looking for a change and all the ones I've tried to date smell so strong they would stun a herd of Bison at 100 yds :shock:
Are there any out there that are moderately fragranced or better still no fragrence? or just smell mmm great :roll:
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I think some use Sudocrem, but I've never used it, but it is easily available at most drugstores.
Kona Jake the Snake
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Kona Jake the Snake
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+1 to Udderly.
Sudocrem isn't a chamois cream - it's a skin-healing cream for use when you have got sores, not to stop them
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+1
It lasted 130km with temperatures in the mid thirties yesterday.
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I do sometimes use Sudocrem if I have run out of the proper stuff, just find it a bit too thick.
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Is it really necessary? How far are people riding before their gonads start getting sore?
My usual rides of forty to sixty miles don't seem to cause any problem. And that's with a crappy cheap pair of shorts with a dish sponge as a pad.
Come on fellas, is it just because the pros use it?
Not cheap either is it?
It's not the gonads thats the problem, at least for me anyway. I only use Sudocrem for 100km+ rides on hot days (i.e. lots of sweating over a long period of time) or if I am suffering from sores already. Back in the old days when a chamois was made of chamois rather than synthetic, I remember using hand cream to keep the pad supple after washing or else the chamois ended up like cardboard. I resorted to hand cream as it contained lanolin which kept the chamois soft and it was in plentiful supply from the bathroom cabinet as the 'real stuff' was out of the budget of a teenager. With modern shorts that isn't necessary but having a layer of cream can reduce friction if you you find your shorts do rub, but saying all that I don't generally have a problem with saddle sores (although I do at the moment! :evil: ) and I don't use any cream at all, especially not for the ride to work (30km each way).
The longest ride I've ever done was 220km in 10 hours with 4000m of climbing and was all done without cream and I suffered no problems.
No, which is why if I use anything, it's sudocrem, which is cheap as chips, (relatively)
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it's a hard life if you don't weaken.
This topic comes up rather a lot though and i get the distinct impression that some guys on here won't walk to the kitchen to make a cup of tea without first lubing the censored out of there 'nads with fifty quid a gram bull semen or something.
I've had lots of problems hill walking with my undies rubbing the tops of my thighs especially on hot humid days to know that you need to take every precaution possible.
I know my friends use sachets of butt'r cream on their long journeys. Getting sore on their first day of 7 doesn't bode well for cycling joy
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I use this when out on longer rides and it works a treat, feels nice too
Don't you think that's a slightly extreme case?
I'm talking about individuals getting through gallons of this gear on nothing more than thirty or forty mile pootles around their locality.
Anyway, i suppose if a man wants to do that then it's no one's business but his own.
As an aside, your 9 day experiment with the cream, whilst commendable is worth nothing as an advert for your particular brand without a 'control'.
Your going to have to do the whole thing again dry.
Bargain!
It isn't the gonads that get sore, it is more the chaffing, especially when you DON'T pootle around
I find going without underwear works the best - sweat evaporates quicker so you don't get as sore and there's no seams which dig into you.
My rides aren't normally that long time wise though. I find things start to get sore if I've been sat in the same sweaty cycling shorts for 6-7 hours.
No,
intelligent conversation.
Not essential , but now I'm earning a fair bit, worth the extra expenditure.
Assos for me, though given it's the only one I've tried beyond Savlon, I can't make any comparisons.
Nah.
It's not actual chamois for leather anymore as far as I am aware.
occasionally
but most often, nothing.
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