A question regarding lycra when cycling with regards to wearing undergarments and jocks:

Ok…. I have a serious question for you that I hope you can answer. I am kind of disturbed but an occurrence that happened to me.

Yesterday I went for a ride on my pushy and all was going swell. THEN… I came up behind another dude on his bike. He was in full lycra getup and also had a bike that put mine to shame the only thing was he was showing total ass through his lycra pants. They were soooo see through that even a few cars tooted! I could not handle the view and I had to pull over and stop for a while so that he could ride on.

Question: What’s up with the ass. It was total ass with no undergarments. Is this something you road guys get into?

Mmmmm, this can get a bit tricky for a non roady old skool commuter dude, yes there are no under garments and generally there are certain rules employed to eliminate ass shock.

Firstly your “knicks” or lycra shorts cannot/should nether be white or red for obvious reasons.
Secondly, knicks should never be worn within a whisker of their life, hence the ass shock.
Third and foremost no jocks, boxer shorts or under garments to be worn under any circumstances.

Wearing undergarments is not pretty, after 2 hours in the saddle, I will spare you the gross details but there is some method to the madness.

One morning, during my earlier days or road cycling, I wore undergarments and was politely told by a female at the café table that wearing jocks just isn’t the done thing for various aforementioned reasons.”

So if you are doing a lot of miles on the bike for fitness training and exercise, it’s worth going jocks free

Generally this is something you figure out after spending many hours in the saddle.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010 at 4:39 pm by Andrew Talati and is filed under Cycling.

Tags: boot camp, Boot Camp program, Bootcamp, Cycling, Fitness training

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