Ladies please help: what cycling shorts to buy?

[DJR]

Another male alert:

When you have had everything checked out and set up, if the discomfort still persists, try this:

Move your saddle 1cm forward and try it. If it gets better, move it another 1 cm forward and try again. if it gets worse, move saddle back incrementally again until you find the sweet spot.

I think that when they do a bike fit in the shop, we often get slightly too stretched out on the bike..........but when neck, back and arms get tired after a while on the bike, we want to be more upright and the only way to do that is to move forward on the saddle. Then your sit bones move off the wide part of the saddle and the narrow front part puts too much pressure.

Just another thing to try.

[rbb]

8 hours ago, DJR said:

When you have had everything checked out and set up, if the discomfort still persists, try this:

Move your saddle 1cm forward and try it. If it gets better, move it another 1 cm forward and try again. if it gets worse, move saddle back incrementally again until you find the sweet spot.

I think that when they do a bike fit in the shop, we often get slightly too stretched out on the bike..........but when neck, back and arms get tired after a while on the bike, we want to be more upright and the only way to do that is to move forward on the saddle. Then your sit bones move off the wide part of the saddle and the narrow front part puts too much pressure.

Thanks for this. Interestingly, one of the things the bike fitter had to do was move the handlebars closer, and I think he wants to raise them further (the part he had to order) so that I am able to sit more upright and further back in the saddle. Which is a bit odd, since I'm not particularly short - I'm 1.71m.