Bike seat

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.