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jnrice posted 1 year ago.
I worry about ability to put power into my bike on a saddle with no nose. I haven't spent much time on them but I feel more attached to my bike on a traditional saddle (maybe I'm just a head case).
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Anton posted 1 year ago.
I borrowed on from Beads once and tried it for awhile...felt like jnrice...less control. You steer a bike with your hips, not your arms and I found it sort of disquieting. I found, for me, that riding sitting up to remove a shirt, or stretch or eat or kiss my sweety, just too precarious.
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tsilcyc posted 1 year ago.
A real athlete will put their athletic performance above their sexual performance. :) But seriously, if you're riding the nose of your saddle on your perineum, I think you're going to have long term problems. You're not supposed to ride on your junk... scoot to one side and get your junk out of the way.
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TriSooner posted 1 year ago.
tsilcyc wrote:
A real athlete will put fashion above athletic performance and above their sexual performance. . . . you're not supposed to ride on your junk
Added to your rankings for you :) And I couldn't have better explained the importance is off-centered junk.
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beads1985 posted 1 year ago.
Maybe you all need to do the 'Buns of Steel', workout so your Butt muscles can control your bike better from your seat!! ;-)
I liked the ISM adamo and I also liked the Selle Stryke saddle which I borrowed from Anton.
It has a nose but has a split in the middle and a downtilt on the nose, so it has the effect of being noseless.
They were both comfy and were good for long rides.
Padded shorts, correct bike fit, correct saddle position, and correct sitting position will help.
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cuds posted 1 year ago.
I tried that saddle. HATED it. It wasn't until I tried it that I became truly thankful for the saddle I already had.
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tsilcyc posted 1 year ago.
beads1985 wrote:
Padded shorts, correct bike fit, correct saddle position, and correct sitting position will help.
I think it's a preference thing. I find that shorts with pads cause me problems. I like tri shorts with very little padding. It allows me to position the tip of the saddle exactly where I want it. I think more pad redirects the pressure to areas that I don't want it.
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
cuds wrote:
I tried that saddle. HATED it. It wasn't until I tried it that I became truly thankful for the saddle I already had.
+1 -- it really just didn't work for me.
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Star posted 1 year ago.
I also use the Selle SMP Strike (but am looking to buy the Glider which is a little more narrow)...its meant a lot less pain on those long rides. I'm so happy I found it...and so is my husband ;)
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Toothless posted 1 year ago.
I understand the handling concerns. I haven't tried riding with no hands yet but this is on my tri bike - I won't be riding in the peleton with it anyway.
Getting used to it wasn't easy but now that I figured out how to sit on it right I find it to be comfy. Of course, no saddle works for everyone. BTW, I purchased it at Colorado Multisport in Boulder where they work on the bikes of many of the top world pros. They told me that all of their staff except one guy has switched to this saddle.
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tsilcyc posted 1 year ago.
Toothless wrote:
Of course, no saddle works for everyone.
I beg to differ... I prefer a saddle. :)
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Anton posted 1 year ago.
I like a saddle too! Beats feeling like you just had a six hour colonoscopy without the drugs!
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beads1985 posted 1 year ago.
tsilcyc wrote:
Toothless wrote:Of course, no saddle works for everyone.I beg to differ... I prefer a saddle. :)
That would seriously test your butt muscles!! ;-)
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I just switched to a ISM Adamo after trying many other tri saddles (but I use an ergonomic Selle SMP on my road bike) and the result is great for the "undercarriage". Long term blood flow loss to the groin isn't a good thing to accept. My father-in-law is a urologist and here is an article that caused me to make the saddle change besides the occasional numbness. Not definitive, but I like the results so far:
Noseless bike seats may alleviate ED, groin numbness, study suggests.
ScienceDaily (8/8) reports that "noseless bicycle saddles [might] be an effective intervention for alleviating deleterious health effects, erectile dysfunction (ED) and groin numbness, caused by bicycling on the traditional saddle with a protruding nose extension," according to a study published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Researchers evaluated "90 bicycling police officers from five metropolitan regions in the U.S. (Northwest, Southern, Desert West, Midwest, and Southeast) using traditional saddles...prior to changing saddles and then again after six months of using the noseless bicycle saddle." The team found "that use of the noseless saddle resulted in a reduction in saddle contact pressure in the perineal region," and that "[t]here was a significant improvement in penile tactile sensation, and the number of men indicating they had not experienced genital numbness while cycling for the preceding six months rose from 27 percent to 82 percent using no-nose saddles."