Long Distance Cycling and Choosing the Best Seat

One of the most important things long-distance cycling Top Guns must contend with is choosing a comfortable bike seat. Choose the wrong one and you could have hell to pay and perhaps find yourself unable to finish your long-distance ride. Each year many riders set out to cross the United States by bicycle, some finish but many do not.

Why? Well, they say one of the biggest complaints has to do with ergonomics and a really sore buttocks. Of course imagine yourself one a bicycle 8-10 hours per day for a month and a half? Now you can see the importance of all this.

There are several designs really to choose from out there, but if you believe this is one of the most important considerations in long-distance cycling then you are right about that. A bad seat would really hurt and you would be sore over that length of time. But even those who ride only 60-100 miles one time per week they too complain about a sore buttocks and a good seat makes all the difference in the world.

One problem which most professional bicycling associations are not addressing is that the average American has a bigger buttocks than ever before in our nation’s history. This requires a bigger seat to properly support the extra weight and larger buttocks surface area. Some of the most innovative newer seats are actually two seats in one; that is to say one small sear for each side of the human riders buttocks. Please take my advice if you plan to ride a long distance; get the proper seat in advance. Think on this in 2006.