Originally Posted by
bykemike
"There's a difference between pain and discomfort."
That statement may be key here. I am a weenie of the first order and I am revising my "pain" to "discomfort". I have a huge problem with stopping to take breaks, I need to learn to pull off and hang for a few minutes.
I am running about 115 PSI in my tires (stock tires on the bike) but the bike seems pretty comfortable.
I appreciate all the input. I listen to much of what I learn here and I have benifitted from a lot of it. ...not quite ready for a 'bent yet but I do look at them once in a while.
Mike
115 psi should be okay-but I have one set of wheels that are so stiff at 115 psi they translate a lot more road vibration that leads to a "jarring effect". You need to get rid of the discomfort so keep working on it. It will become real pain the longer the ride-especially if you have the desire to do a century-which I'm guessing is very doable if you're already doing 70 milers. Even little discomforts will become huge mental distractions, knaw at you and greatly take away from the ease of doing longer rides. It could mean something as simple as a cleat adjustment on your shoe, switching a stem to a different length, changing the bars to a different material, etc. My discomforts got so bad it led to having to go to an Ortho to get help with the joints. You can correct it-I would just hate for you to have to go through what I did!!!