Bike seat pain, long trips
04-08-20, 02:38 PM
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Completely agree.
Fit is an empirical process, never trust anyone who says "this is how it should be" and who ignores feedback - everyone is different. Fit can change over time, due to changes in fitness, flexibility, type of cycling (how far/fast/aggressive), etc. You need to be willing to listen to your body and to be open to making small, incremental changes.
My saddle feels MUCH different after time off the bike than it does if I've been riding a lot, even if the position has not changed a millimeter. As others mentioned above, lower levels of fitness can mean that more of your weight is on your butt and hands, and less on your legs and core. At the beginning of the season, my butt hurts. Mid-season, it hardly feels like I'm sitting on my saddle at all, it is more like I'm hovering over it (not true most of the time, but it feels like it).
Fit is an empirical process, never trust anyone who says "this is how it should be" and who ignores feedback - everyone is different. Fit can change over time, due to changes in fitness, flexibility, type of cycling (how far/fast/aggressive), etc. You need to be willing to listen to your body and to be open to making small, incremental changes.
My saddle feels MUCH different after time off the bike than it does if I've been riding a lot, even if the position has not changed a millimeter. As others mentioned above, lower levels of fitness can mean that more of your weight is on your butt and hands, and less on your legs and core. At the beginning of the season, my butt hurts. Mid-season, it hardly feels like I'm sitting on my saddle at all, it is more like I'm hovering over it (not true most of the time, but it feels like it).
04-08-20, 02:44 PM
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Completely agree.
Fit is an empirical process, never trust anyone who says "this is how it should be" and who ignores feedback - everyone is different. Fit can change over time, due to changes in fitness, flexibility, type of cycling (how far/fast/aggressive), etc. You need to be willing to listen to your body and to be open to making small, incremental changes.
My saddle feels MUCH different after time off the bike than it does if I've been riding a lot, even if the position has not changed a millimeter. As others mentioned above, lower levels of fitness can mean that more of your weight is on your butt and hands, and less on your legs and core. At the beginning of the season, my butt hurts. Mid-season, it hardly feels like I'm sitting on my saddle at all, it is more like I'm hovering over it (not true most of the time, but it feels like it).
Fit is an empirical process, never trust anyone who says "this is how it should be" and who ignores feedback - everyone is different. Fit can change over time, due to changes in fitness, flexibility, type of cycling (how far/fast/aggressive), etc. You need to be willing to listen to your body and to be open to making small, incremental changes.
My saddle feels MUCH different after time off the bike than it does if I've been riding a lot, even if the position has not changed a millimeter. As others mentioned above, lower levels of fitness can mean that more of your weight is on your butt and hands, and less on your legs and core. At the beginning of the season, my butt hurts. Mid-season, it hardly feels like I'm sitting on my saddle at all, it is more like I'm hovering over it (not true most of the time, but it feels like it).
I've also had the opposite experience relatively recently--a seat that seemed fine, but got pinchy in a nasty bit after many miles. They really are the equivalent of shoes--some of them just won't fit no matter what you do.
04-08-20, 03:24 PM
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How can anybody recommend a proper saddle when OP hasn't even told us or posted a picture of what type of bike he/she is riding ??. We need to know the geometry of the bike and a riding position before we start recommending saddles.
04-08-20, 03:58 PM
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No one mentioned it yet, so I will - what about the sprung seatpost? Putting in longer rides on a power robbing pogo stick of a seatpost is not going to help a person's saddle comfort. I went through the OP's previous public thread postings and see where the person's bike is a fairly upright hybrid design. Just by the looks of the photos I saw, they saddle area/cockpit area looked pretty cramped. Perhaps it is for a very small individual but to my eye it does not look very ergonomic.
Overly soft saddles get more uncomfortable the longer you ride - this has been my experience. The sit bones just bottom out on the soft foam. Better to have thin, firm foam in a saddle that is the right shape.
04-08-20, 04:13 PM
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I went through the OP's previous public thread postings and see where the person's bike is a fairly upright hybrid design. Just by the looks of the photos I saw, they saddle area/cockpit area looked pretty cramped. Perhaps it is for a very small individual but to my eye it does not look very ergonomic.
