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Padded cycling shorts. |
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First thing to do is buy decent padded shorts. Second up is to get a decent bike fit or learn how to do your own bike fit. This will highlight your real pressure hot spots. The third thing is to get a measurement of your sit bones. This can be done 'professionally' but a stack of 3 or 4 squares of corrugated cardboard on a hard surface works quite well.
Now you're sitting on the saddle properly and know how wide your sit bones are you can go out and buy the correct saddle. The saddle maybe a conventional shape or it might be something a little different, I ride on an ISM PN 1.1 for instance. |
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Interestingly the sole upright bike I still ride is a TT bike because it's the most comfortable upright I've ever ridden bar none. I've done >400km Randonneur/Audax rides on the bike & also a LEJOG. The bike has a total of 3 riding positions, aero bars, horns sitting & horns out of the saddle. As the latter two are very O2 & fatigue expensive I spend >90% of my time on the aero bars which is a fixed position. |
I agree - I have aero bars on my long distance bikes, and ride extensively on them too to keep the pace up (PBP 1200km in vedette group, 2x LEL 1400km, 2x24hr TTs, Mille Cymru 1000km etc.). I'd actually rather ride at the front of a group on the aero bars than upright in the group (riding on those bars in a group of tired riders isn't ideal).
They reduce the pressure on your arse compared to sitting upright, but having said that I still recommend moving around a bit. Dancing on the pedals doing a climb I could easily do seated gets blood circulating around everywhere and reduces overall strain.
edit: actually, remembering now, aero bars were banned on PBP 2011, so that and some of the qualifiers were ridden without - which was harder on my hands and arse. done on this bike |
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Tight boxers... Riding home in open/free flowing boxers is a big no no and I'll pay for making that mistake. The tighter boxers hold everything in place and there isn't any 'knocking about'.
If you're actually sitting on them errrrm, sit differently? |
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Yeah was just adding my perspective on a cycling budget. I know people who spend 3k on a frame A few hundred quid is my maximum if it doesn't have an engine. |
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A reliable source told me that a banana skin inside your pants will prevent this.
I think he said the skin only but I'm not sure, because I'm sure some of the cyclists I've seen have a whole banana stuck down there.
Try both, either way you've got a healthy snack before or after your ride.
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The only problem with that is there shouldn't be enough space in your shorts for two bananas. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 167 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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