Most people like the LD comfort shorts but they did not work for me at all. After about 30 minutes the pain would begin down under (flat seam up the middle was very irritating) and became absolutely unbearable.
This is an old thread but as the OP, I thought I'd update it. Short story is that the LD Comfort pants did no good. For the long story, read on.
After receiving the LD Comfort pants, I used them in late July of 2014 on what was going to be a relatively short trip... Houston to Fort Worth with a stop for lunch about 80 miles from my starting point. At about the 30 minute mark I could start feeling that big flat seam in the taint area. By the time I got to the lunch spot, it was getting uncomfortable so I took them off and put my normal riding undergarment on (took it along just in case). After lunch I took off but didn't get even 100 miles when the discomfort became so bad I turned around and went back to Houston. Because of the pain, it was a LONG ride home, a ride in which I spent a lot of time standing up on the pegs. So, obviously the original problem wasn't the undergarment, it's just that the LD comfort pants with its huge seam just made things worse.
The discomfort after the above ride acted different this time because it took a week to go away completely. I couldn't explore a cause or solution any further because just a few weeks after my ride, I had shoulder surgery which meant no riding for about 6 months.
Flash forward to October or November of 2014 when it finally occurred to me to go see a Doc. When I saw him, I could tell he was stumped but finally he blurted out that it was XYZ and prescribed cortizone cream. He did this probably because he didn't want to look unknowledgeable to his little interns who were following him around. Turned out to be a BAD call. That stuff made things orders of magnitude worse and the discomfort didn't go away for at least a month!
I finally found out exactly what was going on when I went to a dermatologist. Within 5 minutes he knew what it was. He sent me to another doc who verified what was going on. The condition has a tongue twisting, $10 word that describes it, but the upshot is that it's a somewhat rare neurological condition that has an unknown cause and no known cure. Basically, if I'm riding in hot weather, the nerves down there start sending false messages to my brain that I've got a burn blister down there about the size of a quarter... problem is, there is no blister, no rash, no abnormality of any kind. Despite the fact that it's not real, it hurts like the dickens after about 45 minutes or an hour.
This "condition" has caused me money! When I bought the bike in the dead of summer, 2012, I rode it 600 miles home in one sitting in temps as high as 108 degrees. I had no problem with sitting that long. A couple of months later on a day ride, I noticed that the seat seemed to be uncomfortable, unlike what it had been when I rode it home in hot weather. On subsequent rides I started noticing the discomfort more and more, and remember feeling my seat at gas stops to see if the ST's legendary heat might be raising the temperature of the seat but it wasn't. Later I had my seat Spencerized. That didn't seem to do much so I bit the bullet and bought a Sargent. At first, it seemed to be better (probably my wishful thinking). As time progressed however, even the Sargent wasn't making things any better and as a matter of fact, the discomfort was growing worse and was coming on quicker each time I rode.
Because of all this, I've had to make a final, painful decision about riding, one that I really didn't want to have to make. I'm
selling my ST and giving up two wheels. I could probably get away with riding in the dead of winter but I don't want to risk making things worse and/or permanent because my wife and I have a lot of 4-wheeled travel plans made for the next few years of retirement.
I've been trying to get back to normal riding since 2009 when I had my first shoulder operation. Since then my body has thrown roadblocks in the way of motorcycling. First it was my shoulders which required 4 surgeries, then while that was going on, my neck began bothering me a lot which turned out to be arthritis, and now this new thing that has stopped my riding dead in it's tracks. 'Taint fair
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So, what next as someone on another forum asked? Well, below is a picture of what's next. It's not a motorcycle but it's fun in it's own right. If it gives me just 10% of the joy that all my ST's and other motorcycles over the last 16 years have given me, I'll be happy. I can already tell you that it's a blast in the corners. That thing is amazingly stable and sticks to the road in the curves like glue!
Meet my new to me, 2010 Miata w/ just 19k miles, power retractable hard top, 6speed Auto-Manual transmission (has paddle shifters for manual mode), 2 liter engine, Dynamic Stability Control with TCS, and ABS disk brakes all around:
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