So I am fairly new to riding started last summer and road quite a bit until school started then just did some spinning indoors when the whether was no good which is quite frequent in Lubbock very windy and dusty here which is not good for asthma. But to get to the point, I have but pain that starts getting pretty unbearable at 10 miles and numbness in my phallus starts at about 15 miles in I have tried different shorts castelli and pearl izumi. The more expensive castellis did seem to help but went on a ride the other day and the pain is getting bad enough that I can pin point where it is and its only one side. This leads me to believe that my seat is slightly too narrow and my sit bones are not centered. I also feel that perhaps another factor is that my glutes are pretty much non-existent; completely flat. I was wondering whether I should just go ahead and start trying new saddles or if I should trying building up my glutes first.
For my commuter bike raising the saddle and angling the nose down seemed to help quite a bit with rear pain. Would this help with numbness at all on my road bike?
For my commuter bike raising the saddle and angling the nose down seemed to help quite a bit with rear pain. Would this help with numbness at all on my road bike?