Ladies cycling issue...advice please!

[shouldbeinbed]

No specific advice, not being a lady and all that, (which is nobody's fault not even the Romans) however if the sore bit is persistent, think what 20 years of nursing training would have had you advising someone else.
Downstairs numbness issue is non gender specific, Early in many a cycling career one of the old stagers will notice you walking a bit funny or shaking your shorts (not a euphemism) after a group ride and will quietly say two little words to you **penile numbness** before checking your bike over for you and advising on saddle tilt, height and distance adjustment, making sure you have the right length cranks and your handlebars are set right.

*stop reading now if you are of a sensitive disposition - we're going into too much information territory*

If you and the friendly old stager happened to work in the same photographic lab in the days before photoshop; when you could close a door and nobody would dare open it for fear of fogging films; they may well also advise massaging the numbness away yourself just like they did every morning. Luckily (I guess) I worked in a shared area so had to rely on correct bike set up to alleviate the symptoms.

 

[ayceejay]

Feel free to move, I am squirming in my chaise at my lack of visual memory but this may be a hygiene problem and since you mention only one pair of tights I wonder if this is indeed your prob.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

the lawn is....erm...bare

slabbed front?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

slabbed front?

Crazy paving

 

[Pikey]

Selle smp trk saddle, that'll sort it.

 

[ScotiaLass]

GET SOME KNICKERS ON

Never!! Go Commandos!!

 

[ScotiaLass]

Feel free to move, I am squirming in my chaise at my lack of visual memory but this may be a hygiene problem and since you mention only one pair of tights I wonder if this is indeed your prob.

Washed after EVERY ride. I do have others but they aren't comfortable

 

[ScotiaLass]

Selle smp trk saddle, that'll sort it.

That looks nice! Do you have any experience of these?

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

Never!! Go Commandos!!

Simply no other way

 

[Fab Foodie]

Simply no other way

Naked is even better .....

 

[ScotiaLass]

Naked is even better .....

What? You WANT me to scare the local wildlife, not to mention small children?

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Mrs 26 uses a Brooks saddle as do I. She has the wider version. Padded shorts and unpadded tights over the top in colder weather. Personally I have found that in the warmer weather on less absorby saddles (ie not leather) the sweat builds up between pad, bot and saddle and that causes problems. Always sorted by going back to my Brooks

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Can I suggest a minor saddle adjustment - talking 1 or 2mm backwards just to see if the sore point moves. I know it sounds odd.
I too have a skinny backside and have often had sore points around the sit bones and found that it either coincided with the edge of the padding on my bib-tights/leggings or that the saddle was almost in the correct place but not quite. Moving it back (for me) just 1mm helped deal with the issue (up until the old saddle gave up that is.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Well err - here's a helpful local chap. http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/thanks-son.147623/#post-2876800 You could show him the problem.

 

[ScotiaLass]

Well err - here's a helpful local chap. http://www.cyclechat.net/threads/thanks-son.147623/#post-2876800 You could show him the problem.