Scrotal Mashing

So I ride a regular 7 miles a day on my Fuji and, although great for a steak, my balls aren't enjoying the tenderising. I need to get something sorted quite soon before my hopes of having children are dashed. I know that people say the saddle on the Fuji isn't great, I think it might be more of an aesthetic thing than a functional thing, but I wouldn't really know what to replace it with. I'm toying with the idea of getting some bibshorts and wearing them under what I currently wear.

Anyone riding with bibshorts able to offer some encouragement?

what bike you riding Andrew? : )

seriously, buy a rock hard saddle. in the long run it will help. bibshorts are good if you are doing a long run but for 7 miles i would think that is excessive.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FIZIK-ARIONE-WINGFLEX-SADDLE_W0QQitemZ120178667829QQihZ002QQcategoryZ22693QQtcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

should solve your problems

If wearing them under something, just buy undershorts?

jonny what bike you riding Andrew? : )

It's the Fuji track that I talk about all the time that I'm riding. I do intend on doing more long runs once I outgrow my 7 mile a day routine so I'm thinking towards the future.

jonny seriously, buy a rock hard saddle. in the long run it will help. bibshorts are good if you are doing a long run but for 7 miles i would think that is excessive.

In the long run? What do you ahve to put up with in the short term?

Got some of those endura, padding ain't amazing....

specialized toupe are great - they look razor thin but the flex and the cutaway do a proper job and i'm a big lad

[generally, not specifically in the saddle area before you chip in hippy!]

asm [quote]jonny seriously, buy a rock hard saddle. in the long run it will help. bibshorts are good if you are doing a long run but for 7 miles i would think that is excessive.

In the long run? What do you ahve to put up with in the short term?[/quote]

a little bit of pain dear boy. tis all.

I need a new saddle very badly too y'see. Was going to go for a brooks swift but good lord they cost more than the moon! The search continues.

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should solve your problems

seconded

i got a rolls a bit ago and it tore me a new asshole

I found the Endure more than adequate for the commute, which is also about 7 miles, I also have so DHB, but they are even less padded!

Less padded saddle = better if you ride a lot, right? I use an old turbo, and it's surprisingly fine. I also have those same enduro undershorts and not really impressed, but do the job better than nothing.
Perhaps try tilting the nose down a smidgen to protect the old walnuts for now? Is that bad advice?

asm I need a new saddle very badly too y'see. Was going to go for a brooks swift but good lord they cost more than the moon! The search continues.

Buy a narrow brooks b17 or a normal b17 (about 30 -35 quid) and do this chopping malrky. Been going on for as long as leather saddles exsisted as far as I understand. Results don't look too bad.

http://www.wallbike.com/content/butchering.html

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=183432

pad = bad

IMHO

More links

http://www.cyclingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-306516.html
http://velospace.org/node/1618

I think I'm going to stay away from the Brooks. Just don't like the aesthetics of it. I think I'll suffer for the time being and get a Selle Italia or Fizik at around £30-£50 next month.

Don't get the Selle Italia whatever you do. I've got one of their Max Flite jobbies & I only keep it because it's yellow. That said, the Italia was the most agonizing thing I've ever sat on. And I have a Brooks. And a skinny little "track" lump of saddle... IMO.

I can vouch for the Brooks Swift but its a bit £££

Just wear some padded lycra jobbies, they're great.

Selle Italia with padded shorts is amazing but with jeans it gives me the fear. And chafing.

jonny seriously, buy a rock hard saddle. in the long run it will help. bibshorts are good if you are doing a long run but for 7 miles i would think that is excessive.

+1

The problem with a soft saddle is that it will allow some of the padding to creep into recessive areas (and exert pressure) that evolution deliberately kept out of harms way - a harder saddle will protect the crown jewels much more than seems commonsensical.

Although in the short term (a few days, perhaps a couple of weeks) a stiff saddle might feel a bit hard but it will become your best friend after a while (I recently went out for a drink with mine and ended up sleeping with it in a £12 hotel - it felt so dirty).

I did this years London to Brighton on a Selle Italia SLR and cut down jeans (commando style).

The rest of my friends did the whole gel saddle + padded shorts + gel seat cover (I rode around on one it was like sitting on jelly) - my arse won ! - I had zero discomfort - pretty much everyone else complained about their sore arses.

You need to develop calouses on your bag.
Or what I do is have the saddle at such an angle that the majority (but not all) of contact is made on the cheeks - wears through your jeans in no time, but gives the scrote a break. I've used £20 selle italias for years and they're fine after a little use.