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Old 03-12-07 | 03:07 PM
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From: College: K-State; Home: Overland Park, KS

Bikes: 2005 Allez Triple, 1971 Schwinn Varsity Fixed Gear Conversion

Ugh, another numbness thread.

Yes, I know this has been written about a hundred times, but please hear me out, i want to have children someday, and I don't know what to do:

I go numb in my special area whenever I ride. Feeling returns in seconds after I get off the saddle, so it's a circulation problem I assume.

I've tried 2 different saddles (specialized, terry fly), high, low, forward, back, tilted forward, level, tilted back, short stem, long stem, bars high, bars low, nothing helps.

I have not tried: super expensive shorts, super wide saddle, brooks saddle. Now for those of you who want to yell "BROOKS!," I really dont think it'll help. If it has to be broken in, your sit bones are sinking down and into the saddle, which means the rest of the saddle will rest against the sensitive area. As far as wide saddles are concerned: I'm a skinny guy, so I dont think my sit bones would be very far apart, they feel like they're solidly on the saddle, there's just always too much pressure in the middle.

What do I do?
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