Last year I ditched my 853 Inbred frame which, although a great ride, was giving me grief with chainsuck (it has very wide chainstays) and replaced it with an Pipedream 853 Sirius. For various reasons I didn’t ride much over the winter and having re-started recently I’m finding that I’m getting pain in the sit bones after an hour or two.
The ride position on the Sirius is great and it’s a nice fit, I’m using the same model saddle (ti-railed Bel-Air) as I was on the Inbred and a Thomson post (although this one’s layback instead of inline); saddle height and angle feels fine.
I may simply be out of practice and in need of hardening my behind up a bit; I suspect that I also have a slightly rosey memory of the Inbred and that any new bike will take a while to get right. The Sirius does have chunkier seatstays which may affect things but I’m not feeling remotely beaten up on the Sirius, even though I’ve switche d to a rigid steel fork (there’s no lower back pain for example), generally it’s a comfy ride, it’s just these nagging sit bone pains.
Is it just a case of persevering or is there anything I can try?