Hey /n/, what strategies do you use to mitigate ass pain and skin health? I only experience deep muscular soreness on very long rides, but as I get older my skin is getting irritated more often. Painful red bumps crop up and ruin the ride. I hit them with neosporin and cover with a bandage, which works, but I want to prevent them in the first place. I always ride with a clean ass and clean undies, but now those padded cycling shorts are suddenly making more sense. I might even pick up some chamois cream even though the idea always seemed gross to me.
Anyway, how bout you? Is your ass chapped like mine? Tips from ass masters would be appreciated.
I just wear bib shorts and i do not have issues
It seems to be, what most people who actually cycle wear.
>>2043922 (OP)Just don't sit on your ass? The upright bike meme is cancerous.
>>2043961Take it one step further and just don't ride bicycles like a homosexual.
my ass where it touches the saddle is basically as rough as knees and elbows, nothing I can do about that, but as long as I'm diligent with a clean bib shorts and chamois cream before the ride and taking them off immediately after and showering with a loofah and then moisturizing with first a buffer layer of cerave SA cream and applying a finish of 0.05% tretinoin gel blended with 20% azelaic acid and additional SA cream and an as-needed 50/50 blend of hydroquinone/mometasone fuorate to preemptively hit insect bites or other potential PIH sources (have to be careful with that one because it's strong shit), then be sure to not put on pants and work from my standing desk for the first 30 minutes before finishing getting dressed, I don't have issues and my legs/ass are as good as any woman (male) ass
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It works, especially on longer rides if you apply a fuck ton of it to your groin and the side of your groin, and add a little to the chamois as well.
just get some bibs like non retarded people
>>2043922 (OP)god i cant even imagine what its like to have a bike gf with a huge ass like tht, and she wears the bike shorts. imagineyou go on a long sweaty ride with her and when youre done she takes them off and gives them to you for you to inhale for the next hour
Bibs that fit well (so that the chamois stays fixed in place, with no seams that create pressure spots) and saddle that suits your posture well are the most important things. Anti-chafing cream ('chamois cream' is a bit of misnomer) won't magically fix things if you don't get those two right, but it does help protect your skin since some friction is inevitable no matter how perfect your setup is. Personally I find how long the ride is determines how useful chamois cream is: for 1-2 hours I don't really need it, 2-4 hours it's noticeably helpful, 4+ hours not having means I'll be in pain if I sit on a saddle the following day even if there aren't any particular sore bumps.
I use the cream very sparingly and find you don't really need to put it anywhere except the spots where your skin is going to be exposed to pressure from the saddle. Someone gifted me an 8oz tube of Chamois Butt'r 10 or so years ago and I still have 20-30% of it left today. This past Christmas I snagged an 8oz tube of their "Euro style" cooling version to try and I really like it.
>>2043922 (OP)Correct fit. Correct saddle, Correct pants, Correct embrlocation. Proper riding form that puts maximum weight on feet and minimum on ass. Go faster.
>>2043922 (OP)Why would one need padding on a mountain bike? The lift ride is not that long.
>>2044095I unironically wear a pad if i do laps at the bikepark tho.
Lifting 6 times or more is more uncomfortable than a 6h ride on my roadbike without one.
