Hi Cecily, Yay on riding your bike again! I know that feeling well!
I haven't ridden much in the winter (and late fall), so when I went back to riding, I was definitely a bit saddle sore. But my recovery was like 1-2 days, provided I kept on riding everyday. Like you, most of my riding is short- anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes to my destination. However, I don't know if this would be helpful or not, but I have generally found Brooks women's saddles to be more uncomfortable than men's saddles. I can barely tolerate Brooks women's B17 but am very comfortable in a men's B17 (my favorite saddle). I can tolerate women's B67 but I have to remember to keep the nose up or I slide off it. Brooks Flyer in men's size is another okay-ish saddle for me- not as comfortable as men's B17, but definitely far more preferable than women's. I suspect it may be a YMMV thing, and there's probably a lot other factors going on (for example, the women's saddles were probably not broken in, but the men's were). And if it helps here's the saddle/tire/bike combo: men's B17 // nomad resist 700 x 45 // AHH women's B67 // hetres 650b // custom mixte men's Flyer // panaracer pasela 700 x 32 // Quickbeam All on Albatross bars and relatively similar saddle height. Also, my pain tolerance is crazily high, so you might not want to listen to me. I was riding uncomfortably on that women's B17 with the worst handlebar position ever (lots of stress on wrists) for about 17 miles in 97% humidity. On the other hand, I did get to ride on the tandem again as a stoker in the cool summer night, under the stars, so it was worth every mile and ouchie, but... -E. On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Liesl <li...@smm.org> wrote: > Hey Cecily! Good to hear from you! I too haven't posted in a long while > and barely kept up with my list reading. But when I see a call out to Riv > Chicas, I gotta do my part! > > I echoe all the comments about tilt of saddle, height of saddle, and bar > position. All quite subtle. I might add that all of my B17s feel different. > I have one that's consistently the most comfy. If you have a LBS that will > let you try a few saddles, especially the cambium carved or a flyer, you > might find out a lot. Best of luck and keep us posted. > > Yours in solidarity, > RCW > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
