Quote Originally Posted by Crikey
I ride at lot, currently on the Damselfly, have hideous problems with ugly sores that turn to ulcerated areas on the skin between thigh and privates - and I just keep riding and more sores keep developing.
This sounds like my problem. Last week I finally installed the first saddle that hasn't either destroyed my girlparts or bruised my butt. However, when I took the bike out on Saturday I had serious chafing about where you describe -- for me it was in the butt-crease where buttock meets thigh. Thinking hard about it, I found that I was setting myself perched on the back of the saddle when I wanted to go hard, finding that I got better leverage. But in that position I didn't have enough clearance and my leg was rubbing the saddle on each pedalstroke. It didn't help that my shorts and saddle were creating weird friction -- the nose of the saddle was chafing my inner thighs to boot. I came back from that ride with about 6 saddle sores and general redness and soreness.

I tilted the nose up a bit (to get my weight off my hands -- another problem -- and onto my buttmeat ), moved the saddle to the aft (as far back as the rails allow, actually!), increased the saddle height a smidge to compensate, and wore my better shorts the next day. Fifteen more miles than the day before, and the only discomfort after ~3.5 hours was a general feeling of having sat too long -- similar to how I felt after 4 hours in the car on a recent road trip!

So, hopefully a few adjustments and/or a different saddle will help.