Originally Posted by
Jtsweeep
I tried moving the seat fore/aft and up and down and it doesn't seem to make much of a difference. My butt is killing me. Is that a sign of a wrong size bike?
This bike is online only and the stem/bars is one piece.
Those adjustments actually make a lot of difference, but you haven't ridden enough to see what they do. There are 2 possibilities w/r to your butt:
1) Your sore butt is a sign of a person who hasn't been riding. This is the most likely. The cure is to ride every day if you can, but only for 30 minutes. 2 weeks of that will pretty much take care of it. Unless:
2) The saddle is too soft or too hard or too narrow. You want a saddle that's not hard as a board, but yet not squishy. You should be able to depress your thumb into the padding, but not have it sink very far. If your sit bones are on or near the edge of the saddle, it's too narrow. Bike shops can measure your butt and recommend a proper width saddle. However,
#1 is more common.