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  1. Hi

    Just started using a turbo trainer to get some fitness training in whilst it's dark and wet outside
    but seem to be sore to a greater degree after a ride of about one hour. Are the gel seats and or
    covers any good to alleviate this pain in the bum.

    Cheers

  2. "michael keily" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Hi

    Just started using a turbo trainer to get some fitness training in whilst it's dark and wet
    outside but seem to be sore to a greater degree after a ride of about one hour. Are the gel seats
    and or covers any good to alleviate this pain in the bum.

    Cheers


    You kind of get used to it after a while. Getting out of the saddle regularly does help. I tried
    a gel cover but find that it gets in the way too much. I think you are doing well managing an
    hour, after half an hour I wish I had went out regardless of the weather.

    Graham

  3. Padded cycle shorts. Do wonders to protect the nether regions - even on a turbo trainer.

    Cheers, helen s

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    Flush out that intestinal parasite and/or the waste product before sending a reply!

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  4. "michael keily" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Are the gel seats and or covers any good to alleviate this pain in the bum.

    Sadly not - I've been using one ever since the speed-obsessed one started posting here, and the
    bugger is still at it...

    Tim

    --
    Sent from Brum, UK... ...scheduled completion Sept 2003 'God's electrician sparked up the heavens
    once again, heading northbound on the 7:10. And the lord said let there be commuters...' - Thea
    Gilmore Look, mum, an anorak on a bike! Check out www.nervouscyclist.org

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    Padded cycle shorts. Do wonders to protect the nether regions - even on a


    turbo

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    trainer.

    Cheers, helen s


    Bibs of course !

    Graham

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    a

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    reply!

    Any speeliong mistake$ aR the resiult of my cats sitting on the


    keyboaRRRDdd

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    Padded cycle shorts. Do wonders to protect the nether regions - even on


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    turbo

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    trainer.

    Cheers, helen s


    Bibs of course !

    Graham

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    sending

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    If it's REAL SOREness then a good dose of Assos chamois cream will help. Sorts me out in the summer
    months when I spend 6 or 7 hours in the saddle at a time.

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    Mark
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    "Just ask yourself: What would Scooby Doo?"

  7. Lol too warm for bibs with no wind and not got a fan yet, Yes I am already in shorts with the
    padded gusset so perhaps it is just my large size and weight on such a small seated area. As for
    the interest I park the machine in front of the tele and use a heart rate/cycle computer combo. So
    am interested the figures it produces and it's great to get off load it on the pc and actually see
    the improvement in fitness on the screen. Now if only I could get pc "coach lite" software to print
    the graphs.

    Mike

    PS must check out the bib shorts for outside when its a bit warmer

  8. ..............print the graphs.

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    Mike

    PS must check out the bib shorts for outside when its a bit warmer

    Helen will be along soon with advice for you on this subject. I would advise the wearing of a helmet
    while waiting....

    --
    Mark
    ______________________________________

    "Just ask yourself: What would Scooby Doo?"

  9. Try wearing two pairs of padded cycling shorts, this really helps when your bum is sore from too
    much riding or early in the season when it hasn't hardened up

    "michael keily" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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    Quoted message said:

    Hi

    Just started using a turbo trainer to get some fitness training in whilst it's dark and wet
    outside but seem to be sore to a greater degree after a ride of about one hour. Are the gel seats
    and or covers any good to alleviate this pain in the bum.

    Cheers

  10. I'm a bit busy right now, so please fill in your own amusing entreaty to convert tot eh Dark Side
    and banish saddle soreness for ever.

    --
    Guy
    ===
    I wonder if you wouldn't mind piecing out our imperfections with your thoughts; and while you're
    about it perhaps you could think when we talk of bicycles, that you see them printing their proud
    wheels i' the receiving earth; thanks awfully.

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  11. Just zis Guy said:

    I'm a bit busy right now, so please fill in your own amusing entreaty to convert tot eh Dark Side
    and banish saddle soreness for ever.

    Most won't fit on a turbo trainer though. But on the plus side, most of them won't fit on a turbo
    trainer... ;-)

    Pete.
    --
    Peter Clinch University of Dundee Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Medical Physics, Ninewells Hospital
    Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net [email hidden]
    dundee.ac.uk~pjclinch

  12. I have looked at bent's on the web and am afraid just don't have the storage space for one, and it
    would be a pretty lonely way to go for the Sunday ride looking at everybody else's hubs.

    Mike

  13. michael keily said:

    I have looked at bent's on the web and am afraid just don't have the storage space for one, and it
    would be a pretty lonely way to go for the Sunday ride looking at everybody else's hubs.

    The storage space is a definite problem: the extra length plus the bulk of the seat make them more
    of a problem to stow, and if any interesting corners have to be negotiated then they're more awkward
    to get round them on the whole. But the second point is rather misplaced IME: mine puts me about car
    seat height, and I don't have any problem engaging in conversation with my upright-equipped pals on
    a Sunday ride.

    Pete.
    --
    Peter Clinch University of Dundee Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Medical Physics, Ninewells Hospital
    Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net [email hidden]
    dundee.ac.uk~pjclinch

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