how long to "wear in" a new bike? (aka Help the saddle is hurting my girly bits!)

[Cataboo]

Listened to the various advice of people here... adjusted the seat (mostly raised it), figured out how to balance myself when stopping and dismounting.

It worked!!!!

Girly bits no more pain.
Knee no more pain.
Fear of falling from stopping gone.

And of course I feel more confident playing around with the adjustments now.

Thanks everyone!

That's Awesome, Aeiea. You got over your seat level hangsups really quickly!


Now what I'm curious about is - how the heck could a bike shop guy have sold you a bianchi and done a quick fitting or whatever on you - and let you leave with too low of a seat? Did you tell him you wanted to be able to touch the ground or did he just set it up that was to begin with?

'cause I can see someone selling a walmart bike or a beach cruiser and not bothering to set the seat at the right height, but it sounds like you bought a fairly serious road bike...

[aeiea]

Now what I'm curious about is - how the heck could a bike shop guy have sold you a bianchi and done a quick fitting or whatever on you - and let you leave with too low of a seat? Did you tell him you wanted to be able to touch the ground or did he just set it up that was to begin with?

'cause I can see someone selling a walmart bike or a beach cruiser and not bothering to set the seat at the right height, but it sounds like you bought a fairly serious road bike...

Yea, I'm curious too. I'm hoping he was just trying to have me feel comfortable. He did show me how to adjust the seat, but didn't tell me that most people are higher off the ground than I am.

He did something similar with pedal choice, saying "You'll probably want to get used to the bike first before going clipless".

He was super nice, especially compared to the attitudes I got at other LBSs, so I don't know what he was thinking. He's the owner of the store, had been in the business for awhile, and rode a few AIDS Lifecycles (and gives large discounts to people who go to lifecycle), so as a result I didn't question anything he had told me.

But now I'll go back to my usual "question everything" self