Originally Posted by
Jay_M
Hello fellow friends, I currently weight 330 pounds at 5ft 10 Inches. A stroke or heart attack away from leaving this planet and family behind. I bought a used trek bike that holds my weight comfortably and was excited to ride but immediately started having bad problems with chafing and saddle discomfort to the point of I can no longer ride. Please help what should I get to help ? Don’t know which saddle or what biking shorts or what I should do ? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Go get a proper sized saddle. For me, stock saddles are all too small.
And the size of the saddle has nothing to do with how small or large someone is. As mentioned, it's about your sit bone.
You can do into almost any decent bike shop, and they should have a thing that you sit on and will show how wide your sit bone is. From there, you can choose from saddles that will work for it.
And personal opinion, the softest of saddles are not always the best saddles to get. Again, personally, I'm a big fan of the Brooks C17 saddle (have it on all of my bikes, from road to fat) which is a hard saddle, however it flexes which makes it great for me. I think saddles are a trial and error kind of thing, what works for someone which not work for someone else.
Also a big fan of padded shorts, more specifically bib shorts. But again, trial and error to find ones that work for you.