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not resolvedI've always used Assos chamois cream, for no better reason than conservatism because I always have and it was the highest rated one on Wiggle when I was buying my first pot. It's £13 for 140ml (unless you buy the pink one, which is 50% more expensive)
@gembo is making the case for Tesco pseudocrem, at considerably less.
What is your chamois cream of choice for long rides?
I have never felt the need to slather up beforehand. But for the inevitable adult nappy rash afterwards the lovely smelling but expensive Bikemonger's Happy Bottom Bum Butter is goooood. (Also nice for sore cracked hands. Has clove oil in. Yum!)
As we are all friends here and talking about bras and pants and chamois cream I will set out my thinking in as clear a way as possible.
For me chamois cream is a real obfuscation. Bum butter is actually a better name.
The cream should go right up your jacksy distinctly where the sun don't shine. The idea is that it acts as a barrier. Same as sudocrem for napping rash. Yes put it on after for a rash if you want to but put it on beforehand if going on long cycles to prevent saddle sores.
If I get a saddle sore I use Germolene to try to stop it. Laurent Fignon lost the Tour de France due to them. They can be excruciating and stop you from cycling. The distances probably 60 plus miles for me before apply the stuff.
Years ago there was an American who posted monthly pics of his weight loss caused by cycling - he gets into hilarious discussions with a Swiss guy about menthol chamois cream where the yank appears to have applied the cream on or near the gonads which caused pain, the Swiss was defending the Assos brand against non expert American application.
A sensitive area but one we should feel free to discuss. In my opinion to maybe help avoid actual sensitive areas that stop y from cycling
I think possibly natural padding makes me less in need of added lubrication. That, at least, is my thinking. Plus the thought of having to wash the stuff out of shorts on a long trip has put me off too.
After my inaugural Dunwich Dynamo 10-ish years ago with a small group of friends and 1 pot of Asso. The only rule I recall wrt to arse butter was ... never double dip. We were all friends, but there's always a line.
My go to lotion is Aveeno, either shea or oatmeal. I always feel that the less chemicals there, the better.
@unhurt - I always thought nappy rash was 'inevitable' after a long ride (it didn't seem unreasonable that it would be a bit tender down there after 100 miles+). Then I changed to a Brooks leather saddle, after which the 'nappy rash' stopped.
+1 for the Brooks.
I'd not made the connection, but thinking about it now, I always do seem to fair better on the mile muncher cx commuter than the carbon road bike on +100miles.
Unhurt "Happy Bottom Bum Butter"
I am NOT googling that!
I just use a tube of whatever they had in the shop and it worked fine. I used to wear it on my feet when I did ultras and never had any blisters.
@Min it's a perfectly innocent set of search results! Here's the link though in case you have a more eyebrow raising set of algorithms in your browser:
http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/happy-bottom-bum-butter-vegan-cycling-chamois-butter-6781-p.asp
Prior to reading the thread I had imagined that chamois cream was for rubbing into the pads of cycling shorts, to keep them springy and supple; a bit like dobbin or beeswax for shoes and proofride for saddles. As it's an euphemism, if I was in charge of marketing such a product I'd probably go for a name like "nether better".
Nut butter?
@Greenroofer I bought a Brooks once but me and it never really bonded... I had assumed The Rash was due to synthetic padding meeting sweaty skin!
@Unhurt RE Brookes - need to give it at-least 10 years to start to bed in. Its a long term thing.
Chapeau i've used in the past and has been excellent.
now on Athlete Performance Chamois Creme
i used to uses Assos many years ago but it seemed to change about 2 years ago and didnt suit.
i usually do two strips where the edges of the saddle meet the edges of the skin surface
the worst way of getting problems down there is commuting in the rain, for some reason putting back on wet chamois thats hung in a changing room locker all day and not having chamois creme on seems to bring out the worst "down there"...
@Min it's a perfectly innocent set of search results! Here's the link though in case you have a more eyebrow raising set of algorithms in your browser:
Thanks Unhurt. I do like the descriptions!
@Ian McR - 10 years?!? That's probably longer than I want a sore seat. (I think Brooks saddles are wonderful things for most people. I maybe just have a weird bum.)
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