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Old 10-31-20, 08:53 AM
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Before you spend money, go for a ride with all the wrenches to adjust seat position, height, tip and fore and aft. See if you can make your symptoms go away. (This may put you seat in a poor place for overall position but you will have learned a key point, what works for "down there".)

When you get a new seat, you should do the same rides with the wrenches. A huge benefit to getting seat position dialed in right is a 2-bolt seatpost with a front and a rear bolt. Makes accurate seat tilt changes easy. Undoing a change you didn't like to exactly where you were before is just as easy. Seat position, just as much as the seats themselves<is critical to bike comfort.

For the vast majority of us, when we are comfortable, we are doing no damage. Find that comfortable place and ride.
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