Originally Posted by
FrenchFit
Unless you are a newbie rider I suggest you adopt a zero tolerance policy for saddles that put your man parts to sleep. That said, it may be the saddle and/or your bike fit that causing you problems, e.g. your saddle position and bar/reach/rotation position may need tweaking. My two cents is make changes until you solve the problem, and I would probably start with the saddle. Find a shop that offers a demo program, start testing. If you can find a shop that loans out the SMP line of saddles, that might be a perfect first stop. My son would argue for a Specialized loaner program as the first stop.
As I look at my herd of bikes in the garage I'm seeing 7 different saddles, and I like them each for a particular purpose. The is no one perfect saddle, for me anyway.
far from a beginner on the bike, but this whole saddle thing has me befuddled. I would run out and buy an s works toupe tomorrow if I was confident it would solve my problem, because I have that saddle on my allez and it is great (though I've never ridden the allez longer than 3 hours and my madone sees 5,6, even 8 hour rides), but on the off chance it is a fit issue, which I have explored and not been able to identify, I'd hate to be out $250 and not solve the problem. I went a degree nose up last night and I'm going to ride that today to see if it changes anything. I've tried moving the saddle forward and backward with no luck. I'm starting to think the nose is too narrow, and the saddle has a huge bulge on the front of it, which dictates that you sit in a specific spot, and this morning's research revealed that trek sells this thing as an upright position saddle, which I definitely am not. I like to be stretched out, low, and aero as I can be on the bike, a very aggressive position with a -17 105mm stem.
It may just be totally the wrong saddle for me. Here's a picture.
