2008-06-14 Sat - 100k Ride to Oxford, the people's choice

nice video peterd
@nimbles,on sat i was running a slr, which i took the padding off, so just a hard carbon shell, my jockey y-fronts and a pair of the same trousers you were wearing (endura humvees) with no padding and my arse was fine.
as hippy said, i think different saddles suit different arses.

Up to a point a hard saddle is more comfortable. Certain parts of your anatomy are out of the way/recessed due to their delicate nature. As soon as you start padding things out to any great extent you allow areas that would normally not make contact with what you are sitting on bear some of your weight.

I have run an old SLR stripped of padding for a while and loved it - did the 2005 L2B on it with an old pair of cut down jeans and got zero bum trouble, my friends who had gel saddle covers on already very soft wide padded saddles and padded shorts had to stop every 5 or 10 miles for an arse break.

I also think that folk who have cycled for a few years naturally tend to shift about on the saddle quite a bit, where as newcomers tend to sit in one position - this can also add to the arse trauma.

Thank you.

Tynan (Professor of Arseology)

Next week: Balls.