CyborgQueen
11-19-2011, 10:58 PM
My sincere apologies for such a long post, but I figured an explanation is needed and hopefully someone can help me a little bit.
A few months ago, I bought Selle Italia Diva Gel Flow (and I bought it on impluse buy...didn't look at the price...Should have done that first before dropping $$$ :eek::eek: I figured that I love my LBS, and figured to "throw them a bone" once in a while since they've done a lot of free service for me).
I really like it and found it more comfortable than my Terry Butterfly Ti (I may/will sell that one soon if anyone is interested).
However, after riding the SI for a few months and doing my first Century in that saddle, there is one issue that I can't seem to solve, and I don't know if it's just my anatomy or the saddle.
The umm (my apologies for the TMI), upper part of my girly bits - pretty much pubic bone area seem to hurt after a while. It's more of the bones/ligaments that hurts than the soft bits. Everything else seems fine.
http://www.reshealth.org/images/greystone/em_0179.gif If you look at the link, it hurts more on the ^ shaped part of pubic symphysis. I *think* it's the Gracilis muscle attachment (not sure exactly what ligaments they are) that hurts as well. If you feel the sides of your pelvis, there's two ligaments that I can feel from my leg to the "girly bits". On me, it feels really tight and "sticks out" compared to the rest of my flabby areas. :-) That's what hurts more.
On the saddle, there's two "rails" that creates the cutout that seems to "dig" in me, hence pressing against the two ligaments and pelvis bone.
When I rotate my hips back a little, the pressure is off, and it doesn't hurt, but I can't seem to "stay" in that position, I just naturally go forward.
The sit bone area is fine, no issues so far.
My questions are: is the saddle too "long"? The "rails" of the cut out too wide? (I don't think I've ever seen a very narrow nose with a wide back type of saddle). Or do I need to move the saddle nose up a little bit?
Lastly - will it be better if I've gotten the SI Ldy Gel Flow? (shorter nose, larger sitbone area - I'm not too concerned as it most likely will fit, and smaller cutout.)
I'm just sick and tired of trying different saddles. I liked the Terry Butterfly, but it was just slightly too narrow. I hated the Felt, Bontrager inForm, and Specialized (although I only tried it for a short time).
When I tried the Bontrager's inForm, without a cut out, I didn't like the feel of the squished soft tissues, hence I thought a cut out would feel better.
After hours of riding (even riding hard), the only thing that hurts is the bony area of my pelvis, and it's annoying.
OH - Forgot to add - I also noticed that for all my bike shorts, the chamois stops just right before the two ligaments that I told you about. It feels like I want a padding that goes all the way to the sides of my leg.
Thanks for all the help!!!
(PS: Will I have any issues selling my SI Diva Gel Flow? The white of the saddle has been ruined by using Body glide...that's a whole 'nother story...I can't return it. :-( It's practically brand new. )
A few months ago, I bought Selle Italia Diva Gel Flow (and I bought it on impluse buy...didn't look at the price...Should have done that first before dropping $$$ :eek::eek: I figured that I love my LBS, and figured to "throw them a bone" once in a while since they've done a lot of free service for me).
I really like it and found it more comfortable than my Terry Butterfly Ti (I may/will sell that one soon if anyone is interested).
However, after riding the SI for a few months and doing my first Century in that saddle, there is one issue that I can't seem to solve, and I don't know if it's just my anatomy or the saddle.
The umm (my apologies for the TMI), upper part of my girly bits - pretty much pubic bone area seem to hurt after a while. It's more of the bones/ligaments that hurts than the soft bits. Everything else seems fine.
http://www.reshealth.org/images/greystone/em_0179.gif If you look at the link, it hurts more on the ^ shaped part of pubic symphysis. I *think* it's the Gracilis muscle attachment (not sure exactly what ligaments they are) that hurts as well. If you feel the sides of your pelvis, there's two ligaments that I can feel from my leg to the "girly bits". On me, it feels really tight and "sticks out" compared to the rest of my flabby areas. :-) That's what hurts more.
On the saddle, there's two "rails" that creates the cutout that seems to "dig" in me, hence pressing against the two ligaments and pelvis bone.
When I rotate my hips back a little, the pressure is off, and it doesn't hurt, but I can't seem to "stay" in that position, I just naturally go forward.
The sit bone area is fine, no issues so far.
My questions are: is the saddle too "long"? The "rails" of the cut out too wide? (I don't think I've ever seen a very narrow nose with a wide back type of saddle). Or do I need to move the saddle nose up a little bit?
Lastly - will it be better if I've gotten the SI Ldy Gel Flow? (shorter nose, larger sitbone area - I'm not too concerned as it most likely will fit, and smaller cutout.)
I'm just sick and tired of trying different saddles. I liked the Terry Butterfly, but it was just slightly too narrow. I hated the Felt, Bontrager inForm, and Specialized (although I only tried it for a short time).
When I tried the Bontrager's inForm, without a cut out, I didn't like the feel of the squished soft tissues, hence I thought a cut out would feel better.
After hours of riding (even riding hard), the only thing that hurts is the bony area of my pelvis, and it's annoying.
OH - Forgot to add - I also noticed that for all my bike shorts, the chamois stops just right before the two ligaments that I told you about. It feels like I want a padding that goes all the way to the sides of my leg.
Thanks for all the help!!!
(PS: Will I have any issues selling my SI Diva Gel Flow? The white of the saddle has been ruined by using Body glide...that's a whole 'nother story...I can't return it. :-( It's practically brand new. )