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  • Numb nuts- no taking the piss please
  • chilled76
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    Evening all,

    Really struggling with my road bike. I’ve tried various saddles at various angles and I keep getting numb nuts during rides.

    Feels like the bloods being cut off for some reason.

    I don’t get this on either of my mountain bikes..

    Any advice to stop this would be most welcome.

    qwerty
    Free Member

    Viagra.

    chilled76
    Free Member

    Thanks, riding around with an erection will definitely solve the issue 🙄

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    Ming the Merciless
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    ISM saddle, I have very a very grumpy prostate and delicate pipework on my rh testicle after epididymitus a few years ago so normal saddles are excruciating for me. I got one off eBay as a trial and I’ve got them on all my bikes now.

    bearnecessities
    Full Member

    Don’t sit on your balls.

    spennyy
    Free Member

    Stop riding a road bike

    nerd
    Free Member

    What’s the saddle to bar drop? Try increasing this (removing spacers, flipping the stem, etc.)
    Try moving your saddle forward a bit.

    Basically – put more weight on your hands / arms / wrists rather than your perineum. The lack of blood flow through this is causing your numb nuts.

    tomd
    Free Member

    Have you tried different shorts? I find some Lycra is designed for a more upright position, so a more aero roady position leads to crushed balls.

    If it’s not that it’s probably advanced cat aids of the bad sort.

    fifeandy
    Free Member

    A) Have you tried a really firm saddle with a centre channel or cutout.
    B) Have you tried top quality shorts with a firm variable thickness chamois?
    C) Road riding is a lot less dynamic than mtb, have you tried 10s out of the saddle every 5-10mins?

    bails
    Full Member

    A saddle with a cutout should help. Not normally needed for MTB because you’re in and out of the saddle so much. With a road bike you tend to just sit there.

    ISM or Selle SMP saddles are at the more extreme end of things, but there are plenty of more conventional (and cheaper!) saddles that might help: http://www.wiggle.co.uk/selle-italia-x1-flow-saddle-with-alloy-rails/

    kneebiscuit
    Free Member

    Try an Sq Labs saddle. Designed to avoid “numbness ”

    chilled76
    Free Member

    Error. Tried very little of the above. Just lots of different normal road saddles at different angles.

    The bars is a good idea, I’ll try that.

    The ism saddles look like a torture device for testicles! Rather pricey too to just try 🙁

    hammyuk
    Free Member

    ISM – I have blown discs and permanent nerve damage.
    No issues “there” with the Prologue

    therevokid
    Free Member

    for fear of being hunted down … get someone to look at your
    “fit”.

    most try to emulate the pros with 120mm or more of saddle
    to bar drop without the same levels of flexibility.
    i may be able to touch my toes but an aliante is perfect and an
    arione agony so. .. don’t believe the hype either.

    is the current too far back, too high, wrong shape … there are so
    many things in a road fit that don’t apply in the muddy world.

    hairybiker84
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    I’ve had issues for ages and been through loads of different saddles. Eventually bit the bullet and spent a fortune on the ugliest saddle known to man but it turns out it works the best for me – SMP Dynamic. So impressed I bought another SMP for the CX, the Drakon.

    allthegear
    Free Member

    Well, I can think of a solution, but…

    Rachel 😉

    davidtaylforth
    Free Member

    Saddle too high.

    chilled76
    Free Member

    Could saddle too high cause that?

    I’ve always put it so I if my heels in the pedal legs about locked out as a rule.

    I’ve done that for this and I’m getting no knee pain etc.

    I’ll look into some of these other saddles but blimey they don’t half cost a whack! Could blow through £500 trying different saddles until you find a good one!

    I love the Kore one I’ve got on my mtb but you just can’t buy them anywhere now.

    davidtaylforth
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    Could saddle too high cause that?

    Probably as good a shout as any. Most people I see tend to have their saddles too high. 0.883 x inseam is the classic Lemond starting point (measured from the centre of the BB BTW).

    davidtaylforth
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    Buy saddles second hand off ebay, then you won’t lose much money if it’s not right. Go for something quite firm. I believe the Spesh Romin is highly rated if you aren’t prepared to spunk a load on one of those SMP saddles.

    fifeandy
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    @chilled. Many LBS’s have a range of test saddles you can take away for a few days and try out so doesn’t have to cost the earth.

    MoreCashThanDash
    Full Member

    Well, I can think of a solution, but…
    Rachel

    😮 😯 😆

    chilled76
    Free Member

    Thanks I’ll have a measure, never heard of that method… well worth a go!

    Will look at the specialized one too cheers

    chilled76
    Free Member

    Yeh thanks Andy. I did this but it was only fizik ones they had… none of them worked well for me

    fifeandy
    Free Member

    I’d also take Rachel up on that offer of a mid ride massage – can’t hurt to try 😆

    i_like_food
    Full Member

    Ditto for ISM and buying one secondhand from a forum (try the timetrialling forum, they often come up on there). Worked for me on my TT bike.

    tjagain
    Full Member

    You should not have pressure on your perineum – you should be sitting on your sit bones. tip the saddle nose down more, move it foreward or raise the bars. You are flirting with life long impotence by doing what you are doing – permanent damage is not far away

    tjagain
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    chilled76 – Member

    Could saddle too high cause that?

    I’ve always put it so I if my heels in the pedal legs about locked out as a rule.

    thats too high – the knee should be slightly bent

    orangespyderman
    Full Member

    spunk a load on one of those SMP saddles.

    Which would be a waste. And a bit of a mess.

    hopefiendboy
    Full Member

    ISM

    Adamo

    Had same issue and i’ve converted all my bikes to them now- all good!

    flashinthepan
    Free Member

    Have you tried your MTB saddles on your road bike?

    Xylene
    Free Member

    Manta Saddles based in Inverness

    iainc
    Full Member

    As others have said, try an ISM saddle, but follow the setup videos to the letter.

    I have iSM’s on all bikes after prostatectomy a few yrs ago.

    pipiom
    Free Member

    ISM for me

    huffnblow
    Free Member

    I really struggled when I got my first road bike, my advice get a proper bike fit and an ISM saddle. Also a shorter stem will give you a more upright riding position. Never had a problem since!

    granny_ring
    Full Member

    Have you tried your MTB saddles on your road bike?

    Sounds like a good idea to me, if you still have pain then you’ll know it’s your set up.

    weeksy
    Full Member

    I had this with a Fizik, swapped to a spoon and it is super.

    jim25
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    Quirrel – Member

    Manta Saddles based in Inverness

    That looks really cool! have you riden with one?

    chilled76
    Free Member

    Lowered my seat slightly, hasn’t helped the numbness however I did prefer the general feel of how my legs were pushing. Thanks for that David.

    I’ll look into a used ism saddle to try.

    I unfortunately can’t use my mtb saddle i love on the road bike as it has a strange clamp system that needs the kore seatpost that comes with it and the post is 31.6. My roast bike has a seat mast instead of a post.

    iainc
    Full Member

    chilled, if you haven’t already, have a look on the ISM website at the background to their design. It makes a lot of sense.

    Pedalon in a London used to have demo ones that you can get for a few weeks with a deposit, worth a call.

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