Regardless of saddle shape
Your ischial tuberosity (arse bones) should be supporting your weight.
If you're feeling perineal pressure whilst using a traditional 'racing' saddle, it's because your posture is wrong, or the bike setup is wrong (most likely the saddle height/angle).
Now, there's no denying that there's a much wider margin for error when using a dutch/ladies style saddle. But the tradeoff is that you're either forced to go slow as fuck, or put far more effort than is necessary to keep up with your significantly more aerodynamic pals.
I currently use a Brooks C13. In the Spring/Summer I do around 180 miles a week on it. Would I recommend it as a beginner's saddle? Fuck no. But when you're riding a bike that has been properly fitted and set up, and you're adopting the correct posture in the saddle, it's significantly more comfortable than a
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Thank you.
I've done about 3,600 miles this year split between a charge spoon saddle on my commuter bike (a rather nice steel frame, disc brake gravel bike) and my carbon bike which has a fizik antares. I don't have a very aggressive posture any more as I'm old and never work on flexibility at all. But never had any of the problems discussed here.
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Mon 17 Dec 2018, 18:39,
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Mr ICantFeelMyPenis
Again, unlike the waffle that the man in the bike shop tells you about bike set-ups to squeeze some extra cash out of you, it really comes down to some pretty basic physics.
Weight to surface area means that small profile seats, like the Brooks c13, exert more pressure on the body than wider seats with greater surface area contact.
Then you look at where the contact is. The BrookC13 is your typical long nose blade profile, so unless you're upright with 70s dragster handlebars you're going to be experiencing quite a lot of that additional pressure on your perineum. Additionaly, the more give the less that pressure will spike when riding over compression points like the odd bump or pothole. Gel is better than hard seats, but neither comes close to the sprung/padded combination of the dutch style seat.
And there's all these research papers that show this additional pressure is causing you long term damage and impotence. I can understand why the industry would like to downplay this and distract with waffle about biomechanics. there's an awful lot of money in convincing middle-aged men that they're the next Chris Froome (without his asthma steroids, of course) and buy all the super expensive kit to lower the strava times they like to tell the world on facebook, and informing them they're cutting their rooting years short isn't going shift any stock.
As for comfort, it's a bit like if you came to a bar and were offered a padded chair or narrow bicycle seat to sit on all night. You might crap on about gel/carbon fibre and how your unqualified seat expert at the seat shop has personalised your set up based on the his analysis of the biomechanics of your sitting, but I guarantee the chair is the more comfy choice, because it has wider surface area and more padding, just like the dutch big arse sprung bicycle seats.
In conclusion, with an upright stance and a wide snub nosed seat I won't be winning any races, but I'll be more comfortable and less likely to sustain long term cock damage, which is a not insignificant factor in my thinking
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 17 Dec 2018, 20:30,
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christ, why am I arguing about bicycle seats?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 18 Dec 2018, 4:45,
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