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photo credit: Material BoyHow to settle your bike seat

Tell your friend to help you to regulate your bike seat, so while you’re riding backward, he will get ready the right adjustment.

Level your bike saddle and center the rails in the seatpost clamp.

Get on your bike and pedal backward. While you’re riding backward, raise the seat until your legs are completely extended.

Start to pedal and stop pedaling with one foot at 3 o’clock. Your friend must level the crankarm and the pedal. Also, he will hold a plumb line against the indentation underneath the bone beneath your kneecap. Adjust the seat fore and aft on the rails until the plumb line bisects the pedal axle.

Tilt the saddle in a confortable position, but not over 3 degrees, because your body will slide forward making weight pression over a sensitive part (your pudenda).

After these adjustment, if the nose bothers you enough, try a different bike seat.

How to beat seat sores

To avoid bike sores try to get out more times in a week, so you’ll fit your sit bone to the saddle.

To improve your comfort, consider to apply a lube to the padding in your shorts, so you will avoid friction and chafing of your crotch.

Wash your short!

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To improve your comfort on the bike when you ride on dirt roads or trails, it is recommended the assembling of a shock-absorbing seatpost.
Generally, you will run into two kinds of these, a simple and a complex one.
The simple has the drawback of changing the height of your saddle when you ride over bumps.
Furthemore, it will be possible the increasing of frictions and wear. Consider that your weight isn’t always focused on the seat, and its force applied to the post isn’t always in line with its movement.
The complex shock-absorbing seatpost has a parallelogram in the top that absorbs bumps by moving the saddle horizontally, and your seat height remain costant.

photo credit: cleverchimpNow it is better to say something about how settling the saddle’s tilt-angle.
Try regulate the seat a little at a time. Go from one extreme to the other leads until you’ll find the right tilt-angle.
To distribute pressure across a wide area the saddle must be relatively horizontal.
If you tilt the saddle far up at the front, you will slide forward on the saddle, and your most delicate parts will make pressure up the nose of the seat.
If you tilt the saddle too far down at the front, you will ride pushing back from the handlebars. This will create a lot of tension in your shoulders and arms.

Generally, consider that the top of the handlebar don’t be lower than the top of your saddle.

Some bikes allow small height difference:
-with a smaller road bike try to keep this difference to 5cm (2 inches).
-with a mid-sized road bike keep a difference of 6cm (2.5 inches).
-with larger bikes keep this difference not over than 8cm (3 inches).

Sometimes lesions aren’t due to a wrong seat settlement, but the cause can be your riding style.
If your ride on the saddle without taking a break, you’re much more likely to have problems.
The best way to avoid this is to stop and stand up for a bit.

The women’s average seat is that with wider rear sections, and shorter and well-padded noses. The reason is that they have wider and shallower pelvises that tend to tilt forward, putting weight on their pudenda.

The places where seat contact occurs are:
-your site bones, where your ischial tuberosities support most of your weight;
-your pudendum, where occurs the contact with the saddle’s nose.

The saddle must be positioned with the top horizontal or tilted nose-down just a degree or two, not more, because a greater tilt may cause you to lean too far forward, putting uncomfortable pressure on your hands and arms. For the right position set your bike against a wall
and lay a yardstick lengthwise along the center of the seat. Stand back to see if the yardstick is horizontal with the ground or tilted in either direction.

Consider that the same saddle may be right for you, but completely uncomfortable other riders. This is because each of us has backsides in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. You will want to find a saddle just wide enough to support your weight on your sit bones. A narrow seat bike will cause an extra pressure just where you don’t want it. If it’s too wide, you are much more likely to suffer from chafing and saddle sores.

The drawbacks of an incorrect seat are the saddle sores, that are a crotch infections that typically start as a small pimple formed from irritation or chafing of the hair follicles. In some cases the sores can spread to adjacent tissue and create larger sores, boils or cysts.