injured by your bike shorts?

Biker chicks often roll them over so grippers don't touch your skin.

Hope it heals up.

Um nope...that's weird...I'd find some new shorts. (pearl izumi's don't do that).

OH gosh, that's horrible!

Roll up the bottom- or better yet, buy a new brand. That's nuts.

I body glide that area...may help next time

Yeah, but then they ride up...that's what the gripper stuff is supposed to be for!

I get marks or depressions, but they have never drawn blood or chafed.

wow, that looks like it hurts like hell, i hope you feel better soon!!!

That same exact thing happened to me with my 2xu racing jersey! I still have slight marks, and the race was over 1 mos. ago. Sucks!!

I just did a ride in my new 2XU shorts the other day, and this morning I had an itch, and scratched my leg not realizing I had totally gotten a chafe spot. Ouch! I was thinking mine might have been from my underseat bag that was annoying brushing against the back of my leg, but I don't think it would have left the spot I have.

One thing to try which has helped me in the past is to pull up the shorts slightly more, which decreases the friction around the grippers. Also add some chamois cream on the grippers before the ride.

Not to sound dumb, but do you have the right size?  We bikers tend to earn disproportionately large thighs and the size of your waist might not lead you to buying correctly-sized shorts when it comes to your thighs.  Maybe this particular 2XU short doesn't compensate properly for that difference.  It looks like they might have been clinging a bit too tightly to your thighs while being tugged by your waist band.

x2 on the Pearl Izumis, btw.  Love mine.  I have also heard good things about the Aevero (sp), which are way cheap and I'm going to try next.

Good luck! 

Hello

I have been riding in black Under Armour heat compression shorts  -  IE no pad.  

My wife thinks they show to much-

So I buy some tri-shorts with a pad-  Now when I ride my bike in the tri-shorts my stuff is numb from the rubbing of the pad texture.  Not numb like bike seat entire package numb but numb from rubbing.

The tri-shorts with the pad dont really cover everthing anyways so I think the UA is what I need to wear.   I try to tell my wife that nobody is looking and if they are theres nothing to see after a swim-ride-run or even just ride.  Sweat-Air equals  cool and shrinkage.

So if the pants don't fit you can convict!  Sorry  Get new ones!

Kevin