Womens Bike goUnders Style Guide
Padded Underwear for Bike Seat Comfort
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What are Womens Bike goUnders?
Bike goUnders are a fitted performance underwear for women with padding (a chamois) sewn in to provide comfort between your body and your bike seat when biking. Bike goUnders provide you with bike seat comfort so you then have choice in your Bike Clothing.
Wear Bike goUnders to improve your riding enjoyment and ride more.Â
What to consider when choosing your Underwear Style
Your body shape – Our range of underwear styles have been designed to suit certain body shapes, please read our advice.
Your preferred underwear style – all our Bike goUnders are comfortable to wear but you may only feel happy in a certain style that you are familiar with.
Your size – the choices you have may be determined by what size you are. Please contact us if you can’t find what you need.
Level of Riding – Your chosen style should match to your riding and comfort needs. Match to either Endurance or Recreation Bike goUnders.
Endurance Bike goUnders
Riding Match: Fitness and distance biking. Multi days on the bike.
Riding Match: Indoor Endurance – stationary bike, gym workout, Spin classes
Performance Fabric:
- Endurance level compression onto the body. Medium lift & support
- Mid weight – 260gsm
- Great fit with ease of movement providing 4 way stretch from 14% elastane.
- The fabric provides firm non slipping, placement of the padding against your body. It is a strong, durable fabric known for its ‘hold in’ sensation, giving women smoother contours and great support.
Padding Match – Endurance: Thick dense cushioning that will hold it’s shape over time on the bike, includes Endurance or Active EnduranceÂ
Also ‘Specific Comfort’ Padding:Â Connection Endurance, Indoor Endurance, Genital Endurance.
Recreation Bike goUnders
Riding Match: Casual, fun & social biking, with the kids. Town, easy tracks & trails, short commute or indoor gentle, beginner
Performance Fabric:
- Recreation level compression onto the body. Gentle lift & support.
- Lighter weight – 200gsm
- The performance fabric has 12% elastane giving you a great fit with ease of movement – 2 way stretch.
- It has a soft firm feel with a slight peach finish giving it a silky cotton like sensation against the body.
Padding Match – Recreation: Soft wide cushioning.
Womens Bike goUnder Styles – Fitted Underwear Design
Brief Style – High Waist (HW)
Design:
- Sits high on the body near the natural waistline.
- The waistband is elastic free – a double layer of comfy fabric, 4cm wide.
- Leg hem designed to follow your natural crease line.
Boyleg Style
Design:
- Waist height is around your high hip level generally just below belly button.
- The waistband is a double layer of comfy fabric, 4cm wide.
- A modern style offering more rear fabric to hold your chamois more firmly in place across your bottom and are therefore better for moving/active riders
- Leg hem designed to sit just below the natural crease line at the front, 1 cm inside leg length,
Brief Style – Mid Waist (MW)
Design:
- Sits 5cm lower than the HW. Sits across your hips at the height of the two prominent boney points (front of the body).
- The waistband is elastic free – a double layer of comfy fabric, 4cm wide.
- Leg hem designed to follow your natural crease line.
Womens Bike goUnder Styles – Fitted Underwear Body Match
Brief Style – High Waist (HW)
Body match:
- They suit lots of bodies but especially average to tall women
- They are the preferred style for curvy, round figures. The higher a waistband sits on your body the less likely you will create a “muffin top” or bulge above the waistband
- If you normally wear clothes & regular underwear at waist level you will prefer this design.
Size Range 8 to 22
Padding Options: Endurance, Recreation or ‘Specific Comfort’
Riding Level Options: Endurance or RecreationÂ
Boyleg Style
Body match:
- Suits all body heights.
- Suitable for most body shapes but great for straight bodies – little or no waist and/or flat bottoms
- If you normally wear clothes & regular underwear at or below this hip level.
Size Range S to 2XL
Padding Options: Active Endurance or Indoor Endurance
Riding Level: EnduranceÂ
Brief Style – Mid Waist (MW)
Body match:
- They suit bodies that have a below above average length between the hip joint and waist (often shorter women).
- They are the preferred style for flatter, wide body shapes.
- If you normally wear clothes & regular underwear at or below this hip level.
Size Range 8 to 18
Padding Options: Endurance or Recreation
Riding Level Options: Endurance or RecreationÂ
How to wear your Bike goUnders
They become the underwear you ride in. The padding (chamois) sits directly next to your skin. Do not wear everyday underwear with them. This is important as any additional seams and fabric under your Bike goUnders can cause chaffing and moisture retention and cause issues.
The surface of the pad is specifically designed to be anti-bacterial and pull moisture away. This is very important when you are exercising and creating heat, moisture and friction where your body meets the bike seat. Choosing to wear cotton underwear because it is breathable and natural is not recommended when exercising on a bike as cotton is hydrophilic meaning it attracts and holds moisture.
What to wear with your Bike goUnders
With comfort on your bike seat sorted, with padding in your underwear, you can bike in your choice of riding clothing. Clothing that matches the season, the weather, your destination and your mood.
Choose clothing that allows movement and won’t get caught in any moving parts of your bike and you feel good in. Shorts, long pants, tights of varying lengths, skirts, dresses… the choice is yours.
LiveLifeMove (goRides Movement Clothing Brand www.livelifemove.com) designs and makes Movement Clothing in NZ. Look and feel amazing in our stylish, flattering and comfortable clothing for movement and living. Wear with Bike goUnders on the bike or Active goUnders for all other movement and living.
SHOP: Move Pants
SHOP: Move Shorts
SHOP: Live Pants
SHOP: Movement Tops
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