Saddle bruises
07-31-18, 08:56 PM
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Saddle bruises
Hi,
I have a PN 3.0 saddle since early last Spring and today, after a 110 km ride, which was painful for the last quarter of the ride, I have two bruises on my cheeks. Those bruises are aligned with my sit bones (so the saddle width is correct) but about an inch BELOW my sit bones (ie, toward the legs and not the back). Do you know what could be causing that?Thanks.
I have a PN 3.0 saddle since early last Spring and today, after a 110 km ride, which was painful for the last quarter of the ride, I have two bruises on my cheeks. Those bruises are aligned with my sit bones (so the saddle width is correct) but about an inch BELOW my sit bones (ie, toward the legs and not the back). Do you know what could be causing that?Thanks.
08-01-18, 02:49 PM
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I contacted ISM (I have a ISM PN 3.0) and they mentioned that this usually happens when a saddle is too high. Indeed, I remembered raising my saddle a bit a few weeks ago. I'll lower it and see for my next metric century and who knows, if it goes well, it might turn into a real century 
08-02-18, 10:19 AM
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Makes sense.. to have such a hole down the middle they have to have a wider nose,
essentially 2 of them, side by side..
essentially 2 of them, side by side..
08-03-18, 10:33 AM
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I think there is some truth to post #3 , in that where you are sitting is wider tan you have space for. But it may not be altogether due to a wider saddle. There would be the same effect of too much width if the saddle were tipped a bit back so that you slid aft just a bit. I have a saddle with a cut out also. If it begins to cause discomfort, I either slid forward or drop the nose of the saddle a touch.
08-03-18, 05:36 PM
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The ISM looks like it has a wider nose than other seats. In fact, the ...prongs? horns? pieces that stick out toward the front? ... are a lot shorter than every nose I've seen. So the comparison isn;t the nose of other saddles. It's the taper of other saddles back where a normal saddle starts to taper towards the nose.
08-03-18, 05:38 PM
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I tried one and thought it excruciatingly painful due to the width of the nose. My bod's not shaped like that - my legs are too close together. OTOH my nominal saddle width is 155, so I don't have a narrow butt.
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Too much time in the saddle, not enough time out of the saddle. I once experienced bruised sit bones while tandeming without getting off for long periods.
08-03-18, 09:55 PM
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