Hi all I usually do around 30-40K twice a week on a full sus bike on the rocky tracks near to where I live. I sometime get slight pain from my testicles but this has never caused me to stop riding. However, yesterday I was out on a 90K ride when the pain started around at about 2. O'clock and by 5 O'clock was soooooo bad that I was carried off the track and taken home as I couldn't stand up let alone carry on riding. If this were not bad enough, I was less than 7 K from the end!! Bummer! This only happens when I ride and I have seen the doc so know that nothing sinister is going on down there. Do any of you guys have a similar problem and what do you do about it? Athletic supports do not appear solid enough but any advice on what to wear would be good. My saddle is WTB with cut out and otherwise comfortable.
Hi all I usually do around 30-40K twice a week on a full sus bike on the rocky tracks near to where I live. I sometime get slight pain from my testicles but this has never caused me to stop riding. However, yesterday I was out on a 90K ride when the pain started around at about 2. O'clock and by 5 O'clock was soooooo bad that I was carried off the track and taken home as I couldn't stand up let alone carry on riding. If this were not bad enough, I was less than 7 K from the end!! Bummer! This only happens when I ride and I have seen the doc so know that nothing sinister is going on down there. Do any of you guys have a similar problem and what do you do about it? Athletic supports do not appear solid enough but any advice on what to wear would be good. My saddle is WTB with cut out and otherwise comfortable.
Hi all I usually do around 30-40K twice a week on a full sus bike on the rocky tracks near to where I live. I sometime get slight pain from my testicles but this has never caused me to stop riding. However, yesterday I was out on a 90K ride when the pain started around at about 2. O'clock and by 5 O'clock was soooooo bad that I was carried off the track and taken home as I couldn't stand up let alone carry on riding. If this were not bad enough, I was less than 7 K from the end!! Bummer! This only happens when I ride and I have seen the doc so know that nothing sinister is going on down there. Do any of you guys have a similar problem and what do you do about it? Athletic supports do not appear solid enough but any advice on what to wear would be good. My saddle is WTB with cut out and otherwise comfortable.
Hi all I usually do around 30-40K twice a week on a full sus bike on the rocky tracks near to where I live. I sometime get slight pain from my testicles but this has never caused me to stop riding. However, yesterday I was out on a 90K ride when the pain started around at about 2. O'clock and by 5 O'clock was soooooo bad that I was carried off the track and taken home as I couldn't stand up let alone carry on riding. If this were not bad enough, I was less than 7 K from the end!! Bummer! This only happens when I ride and I have seen the doc so know that nothing sinister is going on down there. Do any of you guys have a similar problem and what do you do about it? Athletic supports do not appear solid enough but any advice on what to wear would be good. My saddle is WTB with cut out and otherwise comfortable.
Thanks D.
Try different shorts, different saddle? Hernia? Nose of saddle pointed too high? Rearrange gear in shorts. Maybe poor packing :-) Stand up every once in a while to take pressure off important bits.
Hi all I usually do around 30-40K twice a week on a full sus bike on the rocky tracks near to where I live. I sometime get slight pain from my testicles but this has never caused me to stop riding.
People often complain about pain to the perineum, but not often to the testicles. Generally, your knackers should be out the way, so you need to work out why you're getting pain in them.
The one thing you don't mention is using cycling shorts. If you're not wearing those, your balls get to swing about and bash the saddle, which can make them a little tender. If you are wearing decent cycling shorts then you should look at proper, ahem, positioning of your bits and / or saddle tilt.
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by 5 O'clock was soooooo bad that I was carried off the track and taken home as I couldn't stand up let alone carry on riding.
:: Wince ::
Where are you sitting on the saddle? I'm thinking maybe the thin part. In which part the "cockpit" of the bike may be a little long for you. If that's a stem that brings the handles father back might help slide you back taking the weight off the sensitive bits.
FWIW I got one of those split saddles recently and I'm not sure they are the last word in comfort. They seem kind of hard.
What? Could you explain how using kilometres makes me a commie? I live in Europe which is outside of the US (for the moment at least) we use kilometres.
What? Could you explain how using kilometres makes me a commie? I live in Europe which is outside of the US (for the moment at least) we use kilometres.
A) If you don't quote anything, no one will know what you're talking about.
B) Not quoting is a well-known commie trait.
C) GET A SENSE OF HUMOR! (I think you have one, based on your reply to guy who advised castration. 🙂)
Bill "finally, Google Brock Bailey, the world's foremost authority on matters of the nuts" S.
all I can say is ice....and I hope you're wearing adequate bike shorts. LOL if this is even a real query. I've never had a problem down there, and ya I'm pretty sure everyone has the same equipment. can't imagine what you could be doing differently.
bri
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Hi all I usually do around 30-40K twice a week on a full sus bike on the rocky tracks near to where I live. I sometime get slight pain from my testicles but this has never caused me to stop riding. However, yesterday I was out on a 90K ride when the pain started around at about 2. O'clock and by 5 O'clock was soooooo bad that I was carried off the track and taken home as I couldn't stand up let alone carry on riding. If this were not bad enough, I was less than 7 K from the end!! Bummer! This only happens when I ride and I have seen the doc so know that nothing sinister is going on down there. Do any of you guys have a similar problem and what do you do about it? Athletic supports do not appear solid enough but any advice on what to wear would be good. My saddle is WTB with cut out and otherwise comfortable.
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Try different shorts, different saddle? Hernia? Nose of saddle pointed too high? Rearrange gear in shorts. Maybe poor packing :-) Stand up every once in a while to take pressure off important bits.
main pressure points on the saddle should be those bones in your rear (what are they called, perenial?).
if not, that should be the first clue that the rider is doing something wrong. bri
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What? Could you explain how using kilometres makes me a commie? I live in Europe which is outside of the US (for the moment at least) we use kilometres.
forgot to ask, since indeed you seem sincere (on the surface, in replying): how well broken in is your saddle? it's not a new seat is it...
could be another thing to *ahem* look at. congrats on not yet being annexed by us, by the way :-) ya never know, maybe Team America is coming...LOL I loved that movie this weekend (yes I'm a Republican).
bri
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Hi all I usually do around 30-40K twice a week on a full sus bike on the rocky tracks near to where I live. I sometime get slight pain from my testicles but this has never caused me to stop riding. However, yesterday I was out on a 90K ride when the pain started around at about 2. O'clock and by 5 O'clock was soooooo bad that I was carried off the track and taken home as I couldn't stand up let alone carry on riding. If this were not bad enough, I was less than 7 K from the end!! Bummer! This only happens when I ride and I have seen the doc so know that nothing sinister is going on down there. Do any of you guys have a similar problem and what do you do about it? Athletic supports do not appear solid enough but any advice on what to wear would be good. My saddle is WTB with cut out and otherwise comfortable.
Thanks D.
Is the pain from 'knocks' or from pressure? If it's the former, I found that a switch to lycra shorts (normally under regular shorts) totally eliminates this. Otherwise i don't have a clue, not heard of that kind of pain just from saddle pressure... Good luck with that.
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Hi all I usually do around 30-40K twice a week on a full sus bike on the rocky tracks near to where I live. I sometime get slight pain from my testicles but this has never caused me to stop riding. However, yesterday I was out on a 90K ride when the pain started around at about 2. O'clock and by 5 O'clock was soooooo bad that I was carried off the track and taken home as I couldn't stand up let alone carry on riding. If this were not bad enough, I was less than 7 K from the end!! Bummer! This only happens when I ride and I have seen the doc so know that nothing sinister is going on down there. Do any of you guys have a similar problem and what do you do about it? Athletic supports do not appear solid enough but any advice on what to wear would be good. My saddle is WTB with cut out and otherwise comfortable.
Thanks D.
Maybe you should set your saddle horizontally instead of vertically.
What? Could you explain how using kilometres makes me a commie? I live in Europe which is outside of the US (for the moment at least) we use kilometres.
Ah Yes! But Russia is part of Europe, the Commies lived in Russia, and it's RIGHT NEXT DOOR to you! As everyone knows, Cuba is RIGHT NEXT DOOR to the United States. The USA was very worried that such close proximity to Commies would cause them to BECOME commies. So they pointed a bunch of missiles at Cuba and nearly reduced the world to radioactive ashes in an effort to stop the USA being assimilated by the commie threat.
So unless you are pointing missiles at your commie neighbours, you have probably succumbed to the commie threat and are now a commie yourself. QED.
BTW, I'm not in the US or Europe or anywhere near Russia or commie threats so it's OK for me to use kilometres. ;-P -- Westie (Replace 'invalid' with 'yahoo' when replying.)
