Thank you all for your sensible advice on the padded knickers a few months back. I bought an expensive pair, thank you Janet and Runcarla for suggesting.

I am thinking that I ought to be thinking about clips now. I have however just booked a cycling lesson with a cyclist who said it was about technique, and that if you get the technique right, then clips aren't necessarily the answer. I will let you know how that goes.

I wondered what experience fabbers have had of using clips?