Road Cycling apparel designer seeking tips

[cycle chic]

Hello cycling pros,

I am a outdoor apparel designer and recently got a project designing a line of road cycling apparel includes jersey, jacket, shorts, bibs.
I read that the biggest thing for shorts and bibs are rash and chafing. I have some basic ideas as I ride road bike myself and have warn shorts. But I don't ride long distance. And I never got rash or chafing. So I don't know what I don't know. Would love to hear from you if you have complains of the shorts/bib (or other clothes) you are having, so I'll try to avoid that in the new designs.

Many thanks!!

 

[vspa]

over the years i have noticed that the pad or chamois ( where you should actually be seated) tends to go upfront, sometimes to the rear or sometimes to the left or right, no idea the reason why. Yesterday i got it a bit to the front and quite a bit to the left, on some nice Scott's bibs with panel construction and everything.

 

[globecanvas]

Bike shorts eventually fail (rip) along the seam where the chamois is sewn in. This happens even with high end shorts. I wish shorts had a reinforcing strip along that seam.

 

[Yojimbo_]

In my experience none of the above happens, but they do go thin in places. I've had to throw some out because they became see through at the back.