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Samuli in reply to @frank9755

My tuppence on saddle sores is that you either get them or you don't and there's not a lot you can do about it in the short term.

This isn't really a solution to aim for, but an interesting experience: In 7400km NCT, about half way through, I had bloody saddle sores, kind of shocking. After a good sleep and some hardening up, I grew a thicker skin somehow and stopped having problems for the rest of the race, felt like I could carry on forever. A dry layer was peeling off a while after the race.

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frank9755 in reply to @Samuli

Steve Abraham has talked in the past about having built up rhinoceros skin on his arse from volume of riding.

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