Kit review: Hoo Ha Ride Glide
Super Bendy Laney… you know who you are! … this is the kit review you’ve been waiting for! Not that you imagine for a second that it’ll come in useful for you (so you say, although you just never know when the notion to convert from your super bendy yoga to cycling will come over you!) but because you are totally tickled pink by the name of this product: Hoo Ha Ride Glide!
I tested it this evening. I spent 45 minutes on the turbo trainer (that’s a gadget that converts your road bike into a stationary bike in the house and usefully simulates a tough cycling workout). I sweated and pedalled and sweated and pushed myself and sweated and grunted and gave the Hoo Ha Ride Glide a right good testing!
Hoo Ha Ride Glide is a chamois cream for cycling women. On application the cream for your “bits below” feels very pleasant. It’s due to the peppermint oil ingredient apparently!
The Hoo Ha Ride Glide was developed by women for women. So, unlike products made for men, such as Assos Chamois cream (I had a bad long-term stinging experience with this while cycling in the Pyrenees!), you can liberally apply Hoo Ha to all areas of your, well, Hoo Ha! Lash this stuff on wherever you want and in all “nooks and crannies”! Men, as you’ll be aware, we are different down there and so we need a cycling cream that works for us, not one that works for you and really shouldn’t be used liberally by us.
Here’s what the label on the Hoo Ha Ride Glide says: The original skin and chamois cream formulated for women by women. Protects your most girlie parts from infection, chafing, friction burns, irritation, inflammation and saddle sores. Provides healing and a lasting cool feeling so you enjoy the ride. Do apply to your nooks and crannies. Do apply to your chamois. Do apply to other skin areas where exercise chafing occurs. Enriched with barley extract, lavender, eucalyptus leaf, tea tree and peppermint oils.
These are the product’s dos and don’ts (hilarious!):
- Do apply to your nooks and crannies (for external use only).
- Do apply to thighs and other areas where chafing occurs when running, cycling or exercising.
- Do apply to your chamois.
- Do wash your hands before and after. (Note: Rubbing your eyes with this stuff would not be so pleasant!)
- Don’t settle for nut cream!
- Don’t ignore the needs of your Hoo Ha!
- Don’t cycle, spin or run without it!
The Hoo Ha Ride Glide goes on easily (I’ll not go into details). I was sent a handy throwaway tube of the stuff. This is ideal if you’re out on your bike and just want to pop a small tube of Hoo Ha into your pocket or rucksack. The pleasantly cooling and tingly sensation lasted for the full 45 minute turbo ride… and for sometime afterwards… until I’d had a shower. (Aaargh, there is definitely too much detail going on here!) I can report a total lack of chafing, rubbing or any sort of soreness. I’d like to test the ride glide on a long summer’s bike trip and the first chance I get to do this I will. I’m waiting for some sunshine!
I also have a couple of other women cyclists giving the Hoo Ha a test so I’ll get them to comment about the product.
Currently the Ride Glide is sold on various America websites (could this be where the word Hoo Ha comes from? I’d only ever heard of Hoo-Ha as a “commotion” but I rather like it as a way of describing those lower parts of one’s body!). Now the aim is to have it distributed in shops and on-line in the UK. It’s possible to buy a tube for £16.95 from Minx Girl and Motion Junkies – but it’s likely that other companies will be selling it soon.
Ho Haa can also be used:
* On the inner thighs, nipples, armpits, sports bra contact areas and other skin areas where exercise chafing occurs.
I have reviewed another excellent lube for one’s undercarriage called Crotch Guard. This product is good for both men and women. While I still rate Crotch Guard I now prefer the pleasant feeling offered by Hoo Ha Ride Glide. It depends on what you like really as both do a great job of stopping the chafing when out on your bike.
Thank you so much for taking the time to review our product, really appreciate it!! Your readers can also purchase our products, including Hoo Ha, at http://www.motionjunkies.com/. Love your article!
thanks for the comment. i’ll add your motion junkies link into the actual blog, too. do send any other products you’d like tested!
I tested this product as well and was fairly impressed.
The sample pouch didn’t have the ingredients listed but you could guess from the faint tingle, warming and nice smell rather than fragrance to constituents.
The name is insprired, if The apprentice chiefs were impressed by ‘Urboun’, Lord only knows what AMS would have made of this but it’s accurate, humorous and simple.
It’s neither a cream, paste nor gel and isn’t tacky. However, it’s not so thin that you think you may have bought product intended for ahem…other recreational pursuits! Potentially a risk with that name?
I tested it on a few turbo rides of 45mins-1.5hrs and found it certainly helped reduce the sore bits I’d normally expect having spent very little time in the saddle lately.
I’d like to test it on longer rides, outdoors and during triathlons as opposed to just turbo but maybe a better option than sportslick which does tend to be messier to apply and seems to disappear into the chamois fast.
Think there is definitely a Market for these products, about time someone addressed the problem of sore girlie bits.
Thanks!
Great write up Maisie. Thanks so much for taking the time to give us your thoughts. I’ll keep you in mind for future test-drives (test-cycles?!) x
So I finally got around to doing another turbo last night… and I tried the Hoo Haa sample.
As Maisie says, the texture is interesting, and the mint does give it an extra kick.
I used it on a 45min turbo and also found that the ‘bits’ were less sore than usual, but still not completely at ease… perhaps I need to go back to the good old saddle question?! Or just slap on more?
I would use this again on a turbo, but don’t find it nearly as annoying during outdoor rides because I am in and out of the saddle more.
Thanks for the tester!
thanks for your review Romy (and she’s 26 weeks’ pregnant!). What a woman!
I love Hoo Ha Ride Glide – I am never on my bike without it. I was introduced to it at my first triathlon last year. Dummy me – not knowing that you are not supposed to do or try anything differnt that you haven’t trained with – happily applied Hoo Ha to all the right places and more. I liberally slathered the cream on – felt the “cooling” effects and got ready. On went the bathing suit. I didn’t have anything fancy to wear for that first tri -I was there to see if I could even do one. So I swam in my swimsuit with a wetsuit, transitioned into bike shorts and a tee shirt and hit the bike and run. All the while – Hoo Ha was still with me. I rode 18 miles that day – never felt a thing. It wasn’t my girlie parts that were sore when I finished – it was the legs. So me and my bike – never without Hoo Ha Ride Glide. And the best thing about this story – I did the same triathlon this past spring – took forty minutes off my total time from last year.
What a great comment! And a fab triathlon PB. Hoo Ha Ride Glide has helped me to survive my first two cols in the Pyrenees today! Fabbie stuff.. and the name is genius!
Bit of an old article but it may help someone noseying. I had a wedding to to and decided to wear a dress. Having sizable thighs the chubb rub is real. This stuff lasted all day and night without a single bit of chaffing and a rather pleasant smell.
I use it for exercising normally so never done a long test but it passed with flying colours .
That’s another good use of the cream!