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I recently bought an upright exercise bike from Walmart (Gold's gym power spin 210). It is incredibly uncomfortable and I would like to know if there is a way of replacing the seat with another one, kind of like a universal exercise seat that will fit on my bike? Thanks!
Answer
It looks like it is a proprietary seat and seat post from looking at the manual. You can try to keep riding and it will get better once you get use to it. Everyone has to go through butt training when they first start riding a bike even if they rode the whole summer before and took the winter off. You can try a gel seat cover or just use a piece of 1 inch foam. Raise the saddle high enough so that your leg is straight with the heel of you foot is over the center of the pedal and a slight bend with the ball of your foot in the same place.
Take shorter rides until you get use to it.
http://sheldonbrown.com/saddles.html
It looks like it is a proprietary seat and seat post from looking at the manual. You can try to keep riding and it will get better once you get use to it. Everyone has to go through butt training when they first start riding a bike even if they rode the whole summer before and took the winter off. You can try a gel seat cover or just use a piece of 1 inch foam. Raise the saddle high enough so that your leg is straight with the heel of you foot is over the center of the pedal and a slight bend with the ball of your foot in the same place.
Take shorter rides until you get use to it.
http://sheldonbrown.com/saddles.html
Ok Spinners..help me out please. I recently started spin class and love it but I am having bad tailbone pain.?
Andrea
Not the "sit bones" pain, I know that's expected. But this is my tailbone. I have had tail bone pain before, however never directly injured it. I had the instructor help with positioning. Shoud I try a gel seat of padded bike shorts?
also is there a certain way I should shift my weight to take the pressure off my tail bone?
Answer
Definitely go with padded shorts. Seat covers and gel seats are actually counter productive. They increase the surface area which may sound like a good thing, but in actuality it becomes more uncomfortable. Larger seats with larger surface area means you'll be putting weight on parts of your butt/nether regions that you shouldn't. It also can lead to more discomfort due to chafing (hence why most cyclists use small seats.)
Definitely go with padded shorts. Seat covers and gel seats are actually counter productive. They increase the surface area which may sound like a good thing, but in actuality it becomes more uncomfortable. Larger seats with larger surface area means you'll be putting weight on parts of your butt/nether regions that you shouldn't. It also can lead to more discomfort due to chafing (hence why most cyclists use small seats.)
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