Saddle and tailbone pressure?

[bellissima]

1+ on deskrider. The fact that when you are forward you experience pain, plus your hands feel pressure, it points to the saddle not being the correct one for you. What maybe happening is that in order to avoid the discomfort on your private area you are seating to far back of the saddle and this causes tail bone issues on some riders. Try to find a saddle that you can seat with more of your whole body ( back as well as front) and your private part does not get so affected, also use a good chamois cream and I am talking about the types that ultra- endurance or hardcore racers use.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

That kind of tailbone pain happens to me right away whenever i ride a borrowed bike with a cushy soft or gel padded saddle. OW !!!! Creeping tingling and numbness, followed by piercing pain when i stand up off the saddle. Too soft a saddle that my sitbones sink into.

[emily_in_nc]

I ride the Ldy Gel Flow saddle as well and can offer a couple of observations:

It's a wider saddle - has the same shape and width as the Terry Butterfly; in fact, I've read/heard that it's the same saddle frame. So it's probably somewhat unlikely that it's too narrow for the OP.

Even thought it has "gel" in the name, it is not (to me, at least) a squishy, overly padded saddle. In fact, it took my sits a few rides to get toughened up for it. Now that I'm used to it, I find it extremely comfy. For me.

It's possible that it may break down over time as many saddles do eventually, and perhaps that is what is going on here. I haven't ridden enough miles on mine (maybe 1500 total over the past 3 years) for that to happen.

No tailbone pain here, but I ride in the drops and bent over quite a bit and am fine doing that on this saddle. That probably keeps my tailbone and ligaments well out of the danger zone.

Good luck, deskrider!

[emily_in_nc]

Just to add a P.S. to my post above. I did a little googling, and apparently there are a ton of different Selle Italia Lady Gel Flow saddles. This is the one I have (though I have it in blue to go with my bike)

http://www.bikesomewhere.com/bikesom...uct/7/37/41093

This may or may not be the same one the OP has. The width is 160mm, so pretty wide.

[Reesha]

I'm going to resurrect this thread because I've been having a similar problem. The sensation I've been feeling is more of a 'tugging' feeling on my tailbone. Like the muscles/ligaments around it are a bit stressed out.

To be honest, I've had the stock bontrager saddle on my road bike since I got it four years ago and while it hasn't given me major problems, I tend to slide forward on the saddle, so I'm not really sitting on the part that my sit bones are meant to be on and thus wind up crushing my squishy parts.

I'm hoping to find a good place to do a saddle fitting in St. Louis, but I'll have to wait to see what people on the St. Louis biking forum say about these places. I'm sure a guy could be somewhat helpful, but I'd really like a place that knows their women's saddles.

[KatzPajamas]

I really like the seat that came with my Synapse...it's not my tailbone or sit bones that hurt after a ride tho-its the front part of the crotch that is tender. What up with that?

[Reesha]

You could try fiddling with the angle of the saddle. If that doesn't help you, you can get a saddle with a cutaway or a depression for frontal bits.