Comfortable bike seat

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!