For anyone who has tried the v-flow, or any new saddle for that matter...
I got re-fit on my tri bike on Saturday and had to get a new saddle because apparently mine had worn down on the right side and was now lopsided...nice. I was having post-ride swelling at the very top of my right inner thigh more this year than in the past, but it was not bothering me during the ride so I wasn't thinking much about it. My seat has never felt awesome, but after a few weeks back in it each season, it never bothered me too much either. I had a ravx athena.
They put a John cobb v-flow on the other day and during the fit it felt very similar in shape to my old one, and even felt like maybe the inner thigh stuff wouldn't be as much of an issue. I could tell there was going to be more pressure in the front while in aero, but figured some of that would just take getting used to.
Sooo....yesterday I rode 90 miles. For the first part of the ride the seat was fine, but as can be expected, it got a little less and less comfortable as the ride went on, but still never awful. The front pressure was there, but didn't keep me out of aero. I kept feeling a bit of pinching on the right side, but it seemed to go away temporarily when I moved my shorts around. Overall, during the ride, I would have probably given it a comfort level of a 5 out of 10, but I would say 7 is as good as I have ever felt on any seat.
So a few hours after the ride, everything was a different story. I was generally swollen everywhere - thinking that is from the new nose pressure, but also still had some of the right side swelling on my inner thigh and then had my first ever soft tissue injury or whatever you would want to call it - turns out the pinching was more serious than it seemed and now there is a lovely sore there. I guess chamois butter might be able to help that, but I've never had to use it in the past.
sooo...after this novel of a seat story, question is, how long do you usually give a new seat before saying it isn't for you, and what pains are a normal part of breaking in a new seat and what pains would make you think no way, this seat isn't going to work?
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Kathleen
http://kcwoodhead.blogspot.com/
I got re-fit on my tri bike on Saturday and had to get a new saddle because apparently mine had worn down on the right side and was now lopsided...nice. I was having post-ride swelling at the very top of my right inner thigh more this year than in the past, but it was not bothering me during the ride so I wasn't thinking much about it. My seat has never felt awesome, but after a few weeks back in it each season, it never bothered me too much either. I had a ravx athena.
They put a John cobb v-flow on the other day and during the fit it felt very similar in shape to my old one, and even felt like maybe the inner thigh stuff wouldn't be as much of an issue. I could tell there was going to be more pressure in the front while in aero, but figured some of that would just take getting used to.
Sooo....yesterday I rode 90 miles. For the first part of the ride the seat was fine, but as can be expected, it got a little less and less comfortable as the ride went on, but still never awful. The front pressure was there, but didn't keep me out of aero. I kept feeling a bit of pinching on the right side, but it seemed to go away temporarily when I moved my shorts around. Overall, during the ride, I would have probably given it a comfort level of a 5 out of 10, but I would say 7 is as good as I have ever felt on any seat.
So a few hours after the ride, everything was a different story. I was generally swollen everywhere - thinking that is from the new nose pressure, but also still had some of the right side swelling on my inner thigh and then had my first ever soft tissue injury or whatever you would want to call it - turns out the pinching was more serious than it seemed and now there is a lovely sore there. I guess chamois butter might be able to help that, but I've never had to use it in the past.
sooo...after this novel of a seat story, question is, how long do you usually give a new seat before saying it isn't for you, and what pains are a normal part of breaking in a new seat and what pains would make you think no way, this seat isn't going to work?
_________________________________________
Kathleen
http://kcwoodhead.blogspot.com/