Hi,
As a new triathlete (first sprint was a month ago, 3 more this summer!!), I have a question. I noticed when riding my bike a couple days ago that if I spend a half hour or more on my drop bars, my family jewels were getting a bit numb… I had noticed this before but then it was also rather cold, so didn’t think anything of it. But I think it’s 'cause of my seat positioning. Any suggestions? Should I try to move the seat? Switch seats? Right now I have a Milano body geometry…
Thanks!
Don’t mess around - get a professional fit immediately!
Don’t mess around - get a professional fit immediately!
I doubt professional fit will do anything… I was fit by John Cobb and encountered the same problem. It’s a physiology/saddle relationship that isn’t always a happy marriage. I’ve found a fizik that gives me less problems than others but everybody’s built differently. Try some different saddles and see what difference it makes.
By the Saddleco Flow saddle!!!..forget what anyone says about other saddles…trust me on this one…and if you don’t like it you can send it back so there’s no reason NOT to try it…
Happens to me on the trainer/rollers all the time, but I think that’s more common than on the road. If it happens a lot on the road, get a new saddle.
-Colin
Like Mr. Sperera says, if you can send it back, why not try it? Although I doubt you can send back a Koobi Tri Saddle, give it a try if the Saddleco Flow doesn’t work. If you do try a Koobi Tri and it doesn’t work for you, I’d be interested in buying it from you…but not for list price. I’m always looking for a Koobi Tri on sale. I try to have a fresh one socked away for when one of my others gets old, but I sold my last hoarded one to a fellow biker that needed a saddle, tried it, and loved it.
Well, Colin, I’d advise a change of saddle asap. It happened to me once after a trainer session, and three hours afterwards I had ordered a nice cushy turbomatic4 (350 gm) to replace my skinny and jewels-numbing SLR (130 gm). My bike gained 230 gm but my wife did not filed for divorce.
I never again experienced numb family jewels syndrom on the trainer, and God knows trainer sessions are usually harder on one’s nether parts than road rides.
You certainly do not want to mess with such a material issue. In Antic Gaul, when frog legs were not hype, eating Ironmen-nether-parts with lettuce was tought to give extra-powers and increase your VO2 max. Roman legions gave us a serious beating, though.
have sex (or some substitute for sex) immediately after riding. that’ll get the blood flowing back to where it wasn’t
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Yes, definitely a saddle change too - I think it was late when I posted.
I had that issue many years back and did the fit AND saddle change, which helped. May be assuming too much, but the guy is new and most newbies have not been fit properly.