How To Avoid A Sore Ass When Riding A Mountain Bike
How To Avoid A Sore Ass When Riding A Mountain Bike
Riding mountain bikes is fun, but a sore ass and chafing isn’t! Mountain bike a sore bottom is In this video, Rich gives you his top 5 tips to prevent saddle sores to help you be comfortable on your bike so you can focus on the ride.
Subscribe to Global Mountain Bike Network: http://gmbn.eu/subscribe
Join us from 16-19 June 2022 in the stunning resort of Saalbach in the heart of the Austrian Alps for Global Bike Festival – the ultimate weekend of bikes, riding, music, entertainment and much, much more brought to you by GMBN, EMBN and GCN:
👉 https://gmbn.eu/GlobalBikeFestival2022
🔊 Camo is Back! Check out our Archive Jersey Collection with a fit for EVERY fan!
👉 https://gmbn.eu/ArchiveCollection
Follow us on Instagram or Facebook! @globalmountainbikenetwork & sign up to the GMBN newsletter: https://gmbn.eu/newsletter
Submit your content to our uploader: https://upload.gmbn.com/ we love to check out what you have been up to and may feature it on the show!
Have you found the perfect saddle yet? Do you have any extra tips for saddle comfort? Let us know 👇
Watch more on GMBN…
📹 Can The Cheapest Bike On Amazon Shred? – https://gmbn.eu/TooCheap
📹 Watch our GMBN Features – https://gmbn.eu/GMBNfeatures
📹 Watch our weekly show, The Dirt Shed Show – https://gmbn.eu/dirtshedplaylist
🎵 Music – licensed by Epidemic Sound
Tool Kit – Dylan Sitts
You Take Me to Paradise – Bonkers Beat Club
#GMBN #MountainBiking #MountainBike #MTB #BikeLife #Cycling #GlobalMountainBikeNetwork
The Global Mountain Bike Network (GMBN) is the world’s largest and fastest-growing online mountain bike channel and community – and your destination for the best mountain bike content in the world.
GMBN is dedicated to inspiring and unlocking your riding potential. Our videos cater to fans of every mountain bike discipline: from mile-munching cross-country (XC) riders, through adrenaline-fuelled dirt jumpers, gravity-hungry downhillers or aspiring enduro racers, and beyond.
Every day of every month, our ex-pro presenting team are on hand to entertain and inspire you while also providing a uniquely qualified insight into the world of mountain biking. Every week we deliver original daily video that include:
Adventurous and entertaining features
Mountain bike skills coaching
Technical advice and guidance
Mechanical know-how to keep you rolling
A place for the riding community with our weekly Dirt Shed Show
Thanks to our sponsors:
Canyon Bikes: http://gmbn.eu/Canyon
Nukeproof Bikes: http://gmbn.eu/nukeproof
Orbea Bikes: https://gmbn.eu/Orbea
Park Tool: http://gmbn.eu/ParkTool
POC helmets and eyewear: http://gmbn.eu/POCsports
Crankbrothers Pedals: http://gmbn.eu/crankbros
Shimano Footwear: https://gmbn.eu/ShimanoShoes
Dainese Protection: https://gmbn.eu/Dainese
Ergon: http://gmbn.eu/ergon
Vittoria Tires: https://gmbn.eu/Vittoria
FSA: http://gmbn.eu/fsa
e*thirteen: https://gmbn.eu/EThirteen
Spank: https://gmbn.eu/Spank
Topeak: http://gmbn.eu/topeak
Garmin: https://gmbn.eu/Garmin
Muc-Off – https://gmbn.eu/Muc-Off
Wahoo: https://gmbn.eu/WahooTraining
Komoot: https://gmbn.eu/Komoot
Worx Power Tools: https://gmbn.eu/Worx
CamelBak: https://gmbn.eu/CamelBak
YouTube Channel – http://gmbn.eu/GMBNsubs
Instagram – http://gmbn.eu/GMBNIG
Facebook – http://gmbn.eu/GMBNFB
Twitter – http://gmbn.eu/GMBNTW
GMBN Shop – http://gmbn.eu/gmbnshop
GMBN Tech – http://gmbn.tech/subscribe
EMBN – http://embn.me/subscribe
Leave us a comment below!
Best cure for sore ass – get you’re ass out riding more!! 🔥
That pink helmets a bit ‘mingin’ 😜
Brooks C17 for me with a decent pair of padded shorts. Also not being overweight will probably make the biggest difference. Not wearing a heavy backpack, basically anything to reduce the downward pressure on the saddle.
My bum brought me here
Was using padded liners for ages but a few hot rides and the trench foot effect was too much; I was in some serious discomfort for weeks.
Over lockdown I swapped to lycra boxers with no soggy sweaty pad ( underarmour coolgear ) and did lots of shorter rides, 30-60 mins letting my sit bones recover till riding again ( 2-3 days )
After 3 months I could easily ride 6 hours or more with no discomfort, did 8 hours xc on a hardtail with only a little ache.
I’ve been off the bike since end of Aug last year and only just started club rides again, no real issue with 3-4 hours but yesterdays 6 hour slog has me a little tender today, time to harden up the sit bones again.
is there a vid for numb hands?
Very insightful video thanks rich.👍
can i add a motorbike seat to my bike if i build it too like a triumph or kawasakki seat or maybe a honda seat and can i make my bike go quicker by adding more batterys or maybe more torque in engine or maybe get a sir ron or caofen electric dirt bike from asia
Great video. I want to start riding again but I need a more comfortable saddle. My old saddle that came with the bike when I bought it years ago hurts too much.
The channel between the seat is great for farts. If your mate rides behind you he can smell it like you’re in the car together! Amazing!
doctors said it’s good for my heart, no one said my balls wil be swelling after 20 miles. lol?
Honestly, I’m happy with the saddle that came with my bike. What usually happens when I get a new bike is that I have a sore arse for a week, and then I just get used to it and it stops being sore. Kind of like getting new shoes.
I don’t use any padded shorts or anything either. Maybe that’s just me?
just avoid riding with elton john really
The discomfort in the Gooch area during and after a ride is really killing my interest in cycling ,tried all sorts and still about an hour is all I can do and I then pay for it for days ,must just be my 59yr old prostate protesting 🤣😂🤣😂
Very helpful and great editing!
I recommend bonjela before and after
If your butt hurts…………you’re not pedaling hard enough.
Wow I never actually thought I would use the saddle slide thing but now it does feel better!
Brooks B-17. Tricks for break-in from 40 years of using them. Purchase large can of Brooks Proofhide with the saddle. When you remove the saddle from box, immediately coat both sides heavily with Brooks Proofhide. Attach saddle to bike and immediately go for 10-20 miles ride. Body heat will make the dry leather absorb the Proofhide in 10 minutes. After that ride immediately coat the underside of the saddle again, just the underside. Day two, ride again as far as you want. Day three apply a light coat just to the underside. After two hundred miles you will see two small depressions where your sit bones rest. You are almost there to sublime comfort. After one month apply another very light coat underneath. 500 miles in, the saddle will fit you perfectly, like it was made for you. Happy trails!
I was typing the dinosaur riddle just as you said it! [first heard it in 1996 on DALMAC, so I am an actual dinosaur—rawr]
I think road biking is worse for pain in the tender bits, but maybe that’s a seat issue, too. All I know is that the second day of a bike tour (70+ miles per day) is THE WORST.
Do you guys have any videos for 26 inch road tires for a mountain bike? I don’t go mountain biking so I want to ride locally but those mountain bike tires hurt on the road.
suntour ncx suspension seatpost for long leisure rides. 😉
Feel like I saw this before on gmbn
"Female and male anatomy is extremely different", tell that to the mellennials, they seem extremely confused by the concept.
Im too broke for any of these, so i just get used to the sore
Should link to doddys video on gmbn tech about sizing for them etc. His video was really helpful to me
Yeah the answer is don’t wear a f****** pink helmet and don’t have vaccine ads in your videos
Megasoreass 🤣
Useless video….if this concerns you get a bike fit done.
Have you found the perfect saddle yet? Do you have any extra tips for saddle comfort? Let us know 👇
5:47 never seen hair sprouting from the top of a helmet.. the pink colour accentuates nicely as well.
While it might be embarassing or too graphic for youtube, i d like to suggest a video topic: what to do with your testicles when riding a bike. Ive often struggled to get my testicles in the right position when cycling so that i feel no disconfort. It s particularly difficult when you consider i change frequently between a comfort (upright) position and a speed position where i almost sit like on a time trial bicycle. Id love to see the topic handled by experienced cyclists and experienced mountain bikers.
Every seat needs broken in …. like a pair of shoes before it becomes comfortable. Your ass and your seat need to come to an understanding and that usually takes a few rides.
Good advice as ever. Any chance of similar videos covering things like arem numbness etc? Keep up the good work guys 👌
I like the wtb pure v
I personally use a twenty year old trek comfort seat. No butt pad, no butt cream. Perfect.
Didn’t actually speak about the most important element, sit bone width v saddle width… and edit seemed to jump from bike size, to saddles, back to bike size then saddles again…. did the editing get screwed up and a chunk lost on the cutting room floor??!!
The presenter’s a subtle, yet persistent vocal fry is grating.
The WTB Volt saddle is great. WTB makes a huge range of saddles with sizes and rail materials.
Thanks Rich…you want it cool mate…prevents smoke rings…..Peace
I’m using SMP saddle which cost around sgd 95. It’s better than my regular saddle but the thing is if you ride for long hours you ass will still feel sore. Haha 😂
That joke at the end was really stupid but I really liked it lol 😂
Burglars last night sorted this problem out for me.
Well now it’s a financial pain in the arse
Put a Brooks B-17 on mine. Did not want my saddle to break in my butt, but the other way around. Few thousand miles later. I don’t have to worry about trying other hip spreaders, cause this one fits like a nice worn in baseball glove.
There is no cure all. Just ride more and you’ll get used to it.
I thought you moved the saddle forward or back to optimise the relationship between your hips and the pedals, and ‘Reach’ was set by your stem length (together with handlebar size and adjustment).
Sella Italia C2 gel flow on all three bikes plus a couple of spares. When you find the one you love……..
Get ur sit bones measured or estimated by online sites like wtb fit right, and get the right width saddle.
Then try out different saddles with different shapes all around that width (flat, curved, rising tail, long nose, fat nose etc.)
Note manufacturers claimed widths and actual widths can vary!
2:57 🤣
On a related topic, I wonder if you might cover cyclist’s palsy? I recently developed it in one hand
Natural Fit Venec that came with my Cube, the best saddle I’ve ever had. Not a hint of soreness after 30+ miles (and no need for padded shorts/unders). Guess I got lucky.