Switched saddles....OUCH!

On Aug 10, 1:55 am, [email hidden] (Dennis P. Harris)

Quoted message said:

yep. once yer sitbones get used to it, you'll do much better.
just work up to those long rides by taking short rides on it
every day.

I tried a Terry Fly, which I wouldn't call "hard". I found it hard on
my taint despite the groove up the middle, so I returned it.

I'm curious enough to give hard saddles another shot. What kind of
shorts have you found comfortable with hard saddles? Do you prefer
thin, simple chammies, or the ones with lots of different padding
"zones"?

Also, how long should someone expect to take to get used to a hard
saddle? Two weeks/250 miles? A month/500 miles? (I know, tough
questions even for an expert, but I'll accept a good guess...)

- JR

Quoted message said:

On Aug 10, 1:55 am, [email hidden] (Dennis P. Harris)

Quoted message said:

yep. once yer sitbones get used to it, you'll do much better.
just work up to those long rides by taking short rides on it
every day.

SlowRider said:

I tried a Terry Fly, which I wouldn't call "hard". I found it hard on
my taint despite the groove up the middle, so I returned it.

I'm curious enough to give hard saddles another shot. What kind of
shorts have you found comfortable with hard saddles? Do you prefer
thin, simple chammies, or the ones with lots of different padding
"zones"?

On my Specialized Alias, I'm good to go in jeans up to about 30 miles.
I can deal with up to 40. In my cheap Nashbar shorts, I rode a metric
century and was just starting to feel the presence of the saddle at the
very end.

Quoted message said:

Also, how long should someone expect to take to get used to a hard
saddle? Two weeks/250 miles? A month/500 miles? (I know, tough
questions even for an expert, but I'll accept a good guess...)

Took me a couple of days.
\\paul

Paul Myron Hobson said:

Quoted message said:

On Aug 10, 1:55 am, [email hidden] (Dennis P. Harris)

Quoted message said:

yep. once yer sitbones get used to it, you'll do much better.
just work up to those long rides by taking short rides on it
every day.

SlowRider said:

I tried a Terry Fly, which I wouldn't call "hard". I found it hard on
my taint despite the groove up the middle, so I returned it.

Quoted message said:

I'm curious enough to give hard saddles another shot. What kind of
shorts have you found comfortable with hard saddles? Do you prefer
thin, simple chammies, or the ones with lots of different padding
"zones"?

On my Specialized Alias, I'm good to go in jeans up to about 30 miles.
I can deal with up to 40. In my cheap Nashbar shorts, I rode a metric
century and was just starting to feel the presence of the saddle at the
very end.

Quoted message said:

Also, how long should someone expect to take to get used to a hard
saddle? Two weeks/250 miles? A month/500 miles? (I know, tough
questions even for an expert, but I'll accept a good guess...)

Took me a couple of days.
\\paul

A couple of days, eh? Sounds to me like you've got an iron butt, but
I'll give it a try. ;-)

Thanks!

- JR