Gopi_1177

Hi,

New to cycling...

purchased an MTB a couple of months ago..... made some initial adjustments to my saddle to get rid of knee pain... and now am stuck with a dull pain on the perineal side and it keeps lingering around an entire day ...

My cycling frequency has reduced from 5 times a week to 3 times a week due to this pain

Should i go in to adjust my handle bar height to help me reduce the perineal pain. Will this help reduce..

Or probably should i go ahead and change my saddle, i do understand that anatomy of each person varies.

Am around 5'8"...

Looking forward to inputs.

Thanks,

Iride01 

Are you positively certain it's perineal pain? Or is it perhaps more a pain in the bones and joints that you sit on?

The former will need some adjustment of you or saddle, maybe even a change of saddle or change of bike if it's completely wrong size for you. The latter might just need a few more weeks of riding to get your body used to using that part of your body to sit on.

grizzly59

I put WTB saddles on all my bikes years ago, no more pain. They make a lot of models, so diff widths, hardness, etc.

phughes

You probably raised your saddle thinking that was your problem with knee pain. That is what caused your perineum pain. Drop your saddle slightly. Go here and read about saddle height. https://www.stevehoggbikefitting.com...ard-can-it-be/ People try to jack up the seat height so much, thinking that is causing them to lose power, or causing their pain, when usually, note I said usually, seat height isn't causing their knee pain, it is generally overuse, or simply trying to do too much too soon. Here is what you started with, "New to cycling..." That is what was causing your knee to hurt.

People generally tolerate a too low seat height than a too high seat height.

Moisture

To add to this.. after playing around with saddle height i can confirm that going a bit higher did not help with leverage over the cranks or take pressure off my knees in any way. All it did was make my centre of gravity higher up.

Bottom line, unless you are riding a wholly ill fitting bike, maybe you're using the wrong size stem, wrong crank arms, pushing too hard on the cranks during your ride or a combination of all these factors, if your knee pain is bad enough id suggest taking a serious break from biking for the sake of your joint health.

Ptcycles

Let us know about your saddle. When I started riding again, I used a nice soft, squishy saddle. I started training for a triathlon and had perineal pain. And it pinched all of the area. My LBS let me try a few different saddles , I found one that felt great, stiff and long nosed, and all was well. Old saying: you won't ride if the saddle is uncomfortable.

phughes

Though all that is true, the OP said the pain came after making adjustments. He induced the pain by the adjustment he made, most likely raising the seat slightly too high.