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@Rickshaw Phil you seem not to have found your ideal saddle yet.
What did you do your 100 miles on? Did that one stop being comfy too?
What did you do your 100 miles on? Did that one stop being comfy too?
I did the 100 miles on a Brooks B17, but just recently I've been finding it hard to get comfy and was getting a bit fed up about it. Getting back on it after this Specialized one it felt like luxury though, so perhaps I'll persevere.@Rickshaw Phil you seem not to have found your ideal saddle yet.
What did you do your 100 miles on? Did that one stop being comfy too?
Do you think it could have something to do with the hot weather? Maybe it's my imagination, I feel this heat has brought on chafing where none before existed.I did the 100 miles on a Brooks B17, but just recently I've been finding it hard to get comfy and was getting a bit fed up about it. Getting back on it after this Specialized one it felt like luxury though, so perhaps I'll persevere.
I think you are right, that it could be due to the warmer weather. It was considerably cooler when I did the century ride and my most recent 50 miler. I've been tinkering with the adjustment a lot lately and may have just been getting it completely wrong, so when I refitted it I set it up as if it were a new saddle.Do you think it could have something to do with the hot weather? Maybe it's my imagination, I feel this heat has brought on chafing where none before existed.
Would have thought that a Brooks, being real leather, was the best thing. Then again, try sitting on a leather car seat when the car has been left in the sun. Takes your skin off!
The chafing is brought on by heat, just 'clean' the sweat off every so often on the ride & you'll be fine.Do you think it could have something to do with the hot weather? Maybe it's my imagination, I feel this heat has brought on chafing where none before existed.
Coz it's fun.30:45 in the peeing rain this morning up my two nemesis hills. Bloody soaked when I got back so I was.
Why do we do this thing we do?
Do you think it could have something to do with the hot weather? Maybe it's my imagination, I feel this heat has brought on chafing where none before existed.
Would have thought that a Brooks, being real leather, was the best thing. Then again, try sitting on a leather car seat when the car has been left in the sun. Takes your skin off!
I'm glad the knee is getting better. With your injury and Doug not having done the miles lately I thought I might end up going for rides on my own.My 1st ride for a good 6 weeks or so, due to the heatwave and then injuring my knee playing cricket 10 days ago. I am off to the Lake District on Saturday for 2 weeks, with @Rickshaw Phil, and hoping to do some cycling up there, and so I needed to get out and try the knee out, as it has been ok for the last 3 days.
I took a regular route of mine out to Uffington, Upton Magna, up Haughmond Hill, down Withington Bank and back to Upton Magna, Uffington and into Shrewsbury along the old canal path. It was a nice sunny end to the day, but there was a gusty wind that blew me around at times and created a nasty headwind along some sections.
The knee seemed to cope ok, but I have seriously lost strength in my legs from not going out on the bike for 6 weeks . I think the rides in the Lake District will be gentle bimbles, certainly initially anyway!! I purposely didn't aim for a fast speed, as I didn't want to overdo the knee.
A psychological barrier overcome though, as I was seriously worried last week that I had no chance of getting on a bike on the Holiday.
13.2 miles at avg speed 10.9 mph. Hopefully the knee will be ok in the morning!!