Where EXACTLY are the sit bones?
09-11-08 | 05:49 PM
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No.
Luckily, there is a solution.
HTFU and pedal harder. That'll put more weight on your feet and less on your sit bones.
I see way too many riders with the saddle too low. This not only means the pedalling is inefficient but also too much weight is being borne by the sit bones.
Luckily, there is a solution.
HTFU and pedal harder. That'll put more weight on your feet and less on your sit bones.
I see way too many riders with the saddle too low. This not only means the pedalling is inefficient but also too much weight is being borne by the sit bones.
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09-11-08 | 05:56 PM
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09-11-08 | 06:00 PM
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09-11-08 | 06:14 PM
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Last week I bought one of the Bontrager Insight saddles which come in 3 widths depending on your "sit bones". It is the most comfortable saddle I have ever ridden. Well worth the $69 dollars I paid. I rode 35 miles the first day. Your weight rests on the bones instead of compressing your @#$% and your nerve endings. The next day I rode 20 miles but noticed I was a little sensative on the skin under the "sit bones" since I was not used the new saddle. By the 3rd ride I was back in love with it. It comes with a 90 day return policy. Can't go wrong there.
09-11-08 | 06:16 PM
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Last week I bought one of the Bontrager Insight saddles which come in 3 widths depending on your "sit bones". It is the most comfortable saddle I have ever ridden. Well worth the $69 dollars I paid. I rode 35 miles the first day. Your weight rests on the bones instead of compressing your @#$% and your nerve endings. The next day I rode 20 miles but noticed I was a little sensative on the skin under the "sit bones" since I was not used the new saddle. By the 3rd ride I was back in love with it. It comes with a 90 day return policy. Can't go wrong there.
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09-11-08 | 06:40 PM
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DrPete is absolutely right. You should be weight bearing predominantly through your ischial tuberosities/sit bones, with some light pressure on your pubic ramus, and slightly more in an aero position. If you are sitting further back, you are sitting on your sacrum or coccyx (which a lot of people do). This can cause injuries from sacrotuberous sprain to muscle straings to nerve root impingement, and so on.
If you're riding further forward, your pelvis is tilted likely more anteriorly or forward, and you are sitting on your perineum, and resting on the ischiopubic rami, and the internal portion of genitalia. NOT a place which was designed to bear weight. This area is surrounded by nerves and arteries.
If I ride that far forward, it just squishes my girl parts... which kust sucks. If you're a man and you're bearing weight in this area, you're also squishing erectile tissue and your urethra.
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If you're riding further forward, your pelvis is tilted likely more anteriorly or forward, and you are sitting on your perineum, and resting on the ischiopubic rami, and the internal portion of genitalia. NOT a place which was designed to bear weight. This area is surrounded by nerves and arteries.
If I ride that far forward, it just squishes my girl parts... which kust sucks. If you're a man and you're bearing weight in this area, you're also squishing erectile tissue and your urethra.
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09-20-08 | 08:08 PM
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09-20-08 | 08:08 PM
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