Commando or boxers

scottarm
scottarm Posts: 119
edited August 2011 in Road beginners
Just a question I wouldn't ask at the LBS LOL

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  • pease
    pease Posts: 150
    well boxers aren't as aerodynamic as a jock strap.....


    On a more serious note its a preference thing, but 99% of pros will commando it. Nothing worse then a vpl !
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Commando.

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  • AidanR
    AidanR Posts: 1,142
    In padded shorts? Commando. They're designed to gently caress your undercarriage in a way the seams of boxers will not.
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  • merak
    merak Posts: 323
    Cycle shorts are designed to be worn next to the skin. Boxers, or any underwear chafes.
  • ThatBikeGuy
    ThatBikeGuy Posts: 394
    Even in the harshest winter weather it has to be commando...
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  • MrChuck
    MrChuck Posts: 1,663
    Commando, otherwise there's no point to cycling shorts.
  • Peddle Up!
    Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
    MrChuck wrote:
    Commando, otherwise there's no point to cycling shorts.

    Er, quite. :roll:
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  • MaxwellBygraves
    MaxwellBygraves Posts: 1,353
    Yep commando.
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  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    pease wrote:
    99% of pros will commando it.

    I think you mean 100%
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  • Hierotochan
    Hierotochan Posts: 108
    Free-ball it.
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  • solboy
    solboy Posts: 368
    thats why i am always amazed to see people buying second hand shorts on ebay. i mean really, would you buy a pair of used pants??? :shock:
  • mouth
    mouth Posts: 1,195
    On a ride, I might go commando. Commuting to work? Whatever I've got on.
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  • MountainMonster
    MountainMonster Posts: 7,423
    solboy wrote:
    thats why i am always amazed to see people buying second hand shorts on ebay. i mean really, would you buy a pair of used pants??? :shock:

    That always wonders me, as well as people who would even sell used cycling shorts. I would never consider sending my shorts which have touched the mother region for many a KM on to someone else, let alone even consider buying them.
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  • AlunJ
    AlunJ Posts: 40
    commando!
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  • MichaelW
    MichaelW Posts: 2,164
    Y-fronts
  • Sirius631
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    MichaelW wrote:
    Y-fronts

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  • Calder
    Calder Posts: 51
    Had worn boxers and have never had a problem with chafing (maybe I don't cycle far enough?!). But I tried commando yesterday for the first time and it did feel much more comfy. Kind of liberating in fact!
  • andy46
    andy46 Posts: 1,666
    Commando, sometimes wear boxers on the mtb though.
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  • alwaystoohot
    alwaystoohot Posts: 252
    Commando.

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  • Rouge Penguin
    Rouge Penguin Posts: 347
    Gots to be commando.
  • chiark
    chiark Posts: 335
    I can't quite comprehend how anyone would consider wearing anything under lycra...
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  • Mark Bom
    Mark Bom Posts: 184
    chiark wrote:
    I can't quite comprehend how anyone would consider wearing anything under lycra...

    Absolutely! Why would you wear anything under your lycra?

    Its like wearing underwear under your swimming cossie, you know not to do that so why don't people know not to wear anything under Lycra?

    Always amazes me!
  • Richa1181
    Richa1181 Posts: 177
    Until I saw this thread I never even contemplated wearing anything under my bibs! I might give it a try, and also pour half a cup of sand in there to boot. See how much of a man I am!
  • Duffer65
    Duffer65 Posts: 341
    Mankini. :shock:
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  • Headhuunter
    Headhuunter Posts: 6,494
    If you wear anything under lycra you get the most awful VPL...
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  • RowCycle
    RowCycle Posts: 367
    solboy wrote:
    thats why i am always amazed to see people buying second hand shorts on ebay. i mean really, would you buy a pair of used pants??? :shock:

    You wouldn't use a second hand pair of shorts as someone elses privates might have been touching them. So I gather you choice of women is limited to virgins then?
  • ollyridesfirst
    ollyridesfirst Posts: 486
    I did try some padded underwear once from Nike....useless!

    Commando every time!
  • Lycra Man
    Lycra Man Posts: 141
    As MrChuck says

    Commando, otherwise there's no point to cycling shorts

    The explanation: the chamois pad is designed to remove moisture from your ars* as you ride, and provide a padded interface with the saddle, with no seams to chafe your tender parts. Wearig any form of underwear will prevent the chamois from working, and any seam will probably rub and make you sore.

    That might be minimal for a 30 minute spirint around the block, but go out for a fiull day's ride, and it will be another story.

    So commando under bib shorts is the only way.

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  • t.m.h.n.e.t
    t.m.h.n.e.t Posts: 2,265
    Commando :P Tri-suits are the same 8)
  • anto164
    anto164 Posts: 3,500
    So one second.

    What happens in winter when you wear longs?

    Do you go, unpadded longs under padded bibs, or padded longs under unpadded bibs?

    I'm confused what happens in winter.

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