my prostate

Time to start experimenting with padding your seat in exotic fashion?

Leaving an open space down the middle, like bike saddles sometimes do?
Maybe take out the stock seat foam and replace it with a piece of memory
foam, like the new mattresses are made from.
Maybe you could get a piece of closed cell foam like the kayakers outfit
their boats with and use an X=acto and a piece of 'dragonskin' metal
sanding sheet to custom outfit a saddle.

Good luck.

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Bike nix.

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Bike nix.

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Try a good pair padded bicycle shorts!! I tried every seat out there
and still had a similar problem to yours! Padded shorts takes care of
that prostrate and holds in those precious dangling bits so you can ride
on without leaning the unicle to compensate!

It seems 1/3 of this forum are teens, 1/3 are mid age and the other 1/3
are those of us in our later years (second childhood).

My winning seat combinations are the padded unicycle shorts + a Kris
Holme seat! This allows me about 2 to 4 hours of ride time with little
or no discomfort.

Good luck!

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You forgot to tell us what you're sitting on. If not sure of the seat
brand, look on Unicycle.com for a picture of a similar one (either under
whole cycles, or under parts). Post a link to the page with the picture
for best results.

Also look into some cycling shorts if you don't have any. They won't fix
a pressure-on-the-midline problem, but they make a great difference in
comfort otherwise.

Some crotches just have more problems with unicycle (or bike) seats than
others. What you need is probably something flatter. If your current
seat is round on top it's putting too much pressure in the wrong place.
I prefer air seats for best comfort, but most importantly you have to
get your weight more onto your sit bones and away from the centerline.

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Just wandering is there any risk in doing permanent damage to the region
in subect?
Should I be worried about becoming unable to produce little ones because
of unicycling?

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Even if you are it would be a hard dilema eh? Unicycling or evil-army of
children..... hard to choose.

Oh, and by Evil I mean nice.

And by army I mean familly.

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munimanpete said:

Just wandering is there any risk in doing permanent damage to the region
in subect?
Should I be worried about becoming unable to produce little ones because
of unicycling?

Hey, Jayne, you were right.

A few days ago, in another thread, Sarah Miller wrote:
"Looking at the rate the UK Unicycling mob are producing children I
think you would be able to sell on an out grown tiny uni in a few
years
quite easily. After all the BUC now has to have a chrech ( can't spell
it, you know, place for small kids to be kept while parents do
something more interesting) , quite a change from the pub crawling
debuchery of a few years ago. "

Of course you should be careful. Wear decent cycling shorts, find a
seat that suits you and make sure it's properly adjusted. Change your
riding habits if you start to suffer from pain or numbness. But as long
as you don't ignore the warning signs of impending damage, you should be
fine.

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i am riding a beginer model lets see if this picture comes out it is
similiar to this one.....thaks for all the suggestions peeps...

http://tinyurl.com/6l6kv

apparently im computer illiterate.

I do not have shorts but will check into them, they just basic shorts,
padded, some wierd funky kind i know nothing of?

I may try MESSING with my seat a bit, but it is definately taking the
beating i as a beginer am giving it. So its got perks. any how thanks a
bunch ill keep checking for more tips.

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johnfoss said:

*Some crotches just have more problems with unicycle (or bike) seats
than others. What you need is probably something flatter.*

A flatter crotch? :eek: I like unicycling and all, but that seems
like a pretty extreme modification...

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