if you ride your bike every day for everything, as i do, you often find yourself out longer than anticipated, and your undercarriage starts to hurt cause you’re just in boxers or briefs with jeans over em. well, THESE are for you.

the novara padded cycling liners are somewhere between boxer briefs and cycling shorts. cycling shorts are performance material with chamois where it counts, but if you’ve ever tried to wear em as your underwear, like under your jeans or whatever, you know they get uncomfortably tight off the bike. that’s where these come in. this product brings the cycling short down from a true cycling performance product to somewhere near boxer briefs, but they’re better than boxer briefs because they have the rubberized bit at the legs to keep em from creeping, and they’re much less restrictive. tighter than boxer briefs but looser than cycling shorts, and with chamois. they’re also not made of cotton like boxer briefs, but not made of the true lycra of cycling shorts. it’s tough to explain.

the point is that high-quality cycling shorts could be over a hundred bucks. even low-quality cycling shorts are up in the 60s. these are right around $20. so even pricewise, they’re right in between the two products. i picked some up yesterday and wore em today around the city, under my jeans, as underwear. i’m still wearing them, obviously not on my bike anymore, and they’re SUPER comfortable. if i were in cycling shorts, i’d have taken them off already.

i’m DEFINITELY going to pick up a few more of these things. they could even be used in a pinch out on a day-long ride, in place of cycling shorts. (though you’d have to wear something over them cause they are technically underwear, but i do that even with my good cycling shorts.)

these are such a great product for people like me, who are in the saddle every day.

HUGE win.

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