Folding Bikes - Comfortable bike seat description!

I cannot believe that anyone would want to ride on a banana-shaped bicycle seat when he or she could have a seat that is made for the sitz bones to exert no pressure on the center of the pelvis where the pudendal nerve travels toward the penis and clitoris...

To the clitoris? I had no idea.

Bicycle seats are shaped like bananas because bicycle racers say they do not want any structure behind their legs. They believe that wide seats prevent them from extending their legs backward to achieve a full pedal stroke. Because many non-professional bicycle riders want to look like racers...

Think I might get this seat.

http://www.thecomfortseat.com/images/numbbutt-small.gif

http://www.drmirkin.com/fitness/8733.html

There are many opinions on bike saddles/seats. Some people are firmly convinced that a saddle with a long nose can't possibly be comfortable. That's OK. They can think that. Just stop trying to convince everybody else they're wrong, is what I say. I would predict if you become a cycling addict like the rest here, that "seat" may well gather dust.

YMMV. Especially with saddles.

I went to that site and that guy sounds like a nut. The seat he has on his site looks dangerous...like you could slide right off it. :eek:

The use of the word "seat" is always a red flag for me when it comes to bicycle saddles.

There have been plenty of noseless saddles over the past century. It's old news. Look, the nose is there not for the cyclist to sit on, but just to keep him/her in the right position, and also to help prevent falling onto the top tube.

Based on literally years of experimentation, I think that the conventional wisdom among road bike fans is correct:

The best way to ride a bicycle for long distances and with some degree of performance is to use a rather hard, relatively narrow racing saddle that supports the sit bones, and to have good, proper weight distribution between arms and butt. If you are too upright (and that happens even on a road bike if your handlebars are too high), there is so much weight on the butt that you pretty much need a wide, cushioned, sprung saddle to distribute the weight so you can ride any good distance. But then, you run into the problem of interference with pedaling, and also compression of everything by the padding such that numbness results.

The use of the word "seat" is always a red flag for me when it comes to bicycle saddles.

Yep ...

Not to harp on the topic; but the OP might want to check out Sheldon Brown's page on saddles. It really is helpful.

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/saddles.html

-G

Brooks, Brooks, Brooks. That is all i have to say/recommend trying! :)

I just got a Velo saddle on my new DT. It says it's "plush". It's a lot narrower and harder than my old bike had, and based on Comfort Brown's article, maybe it will be OK. Any thoughts from you more experienced folks on the Velo?

Saddle are highly individualistic. The best advice is to ride it and form you own opinion. :)