willhub

So I recently started up doing longer rides again last year, and one thing I started to notice was that I am sliding off the saddle sideways, I'm not literally sliding off, but my left sit bone is essentially hovering to the left side of the saddle, so this seems to really effect my ability to be comfy on the bike and get the power, any strong wind blowing a certain way or bump can easily make it hard for me to keep the bike in a straight line because the way I imagine it is because I'm not putting any force on my left sit bone, if something caused the bike to nudge right, the bike will swerve as my sit bone isn't in the way.

I've also realised I'm more comfortable on my commuter bike, especially whilst maintaining high efforts, and that bike usually has two panniers heavily weighted, interesting having a pannier only on the left side with a few D locks in increased my stability as I imagine it's pulling the bike sideways so my left sit bone is actually in contact with the saddle.

I've had numerous bike fits and they've all failed to look at this or correct it even when I've specifically mentioned it, to the point I feel I'm done with bike fits because it's A LOT of money thrown away, I need to try and troubleshoot it myself now.

It's very tiring for me this problem as it's effecting my ability to go more than 25-30 miles and I used to be doing 100+ miles but that was 5+ years ago, It just makes me upset that I'm loosing lots of cycling time and spending lots more time I could be cycling messing with the bike and I feel I'm getting closer and closer to giving any cycling apart from commuting up, but I don't want to do this, I see the hills in the distance and aspire to be munching the miles tearing it up in the hills again like I used to, but I'm really upset how bad my form is getting due to all this disruption and trying to figure how to fix it.

Honestly, I can waffle and waffle forever about this I'm that frustrated, literally half of me wants to quit but the other half wants to get those long miles in because the achievements are so worthwhile and the fun that it is but I feel alone and like I can't get any help with it, and money is an issue too so I can't be spending all the time.

I've just bought some 20mm pedal axle extenders to try as when I look at my knees I can see on the left side my knee is pointing in towards the top tube, the right knee pointing out, my stance standing is duck like, feet pointing out, cleats adjusted the same trying to mimic this.

Re the saddle I am using it's a Specialized Bridge Sport, every single saddle I've tried has the same issue, I've stuck with this saddle as in general it's the most comfy.