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Originally Posted by Dottore
I started seriously cycling again three months ago after an absence of 20 or so years.
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I'm pretty much in the same situation. The main thing I dreaded was the saddle pain I knew would be coming the first few weeks/months. The bike I'm riding has one of the newer-type gel racing saddles with the slot down the center (it's a Velo OCR if that means anything. I never heard of it before). I didn't do any comparison shopping, it is what was on the bike so I gave it a shot. I have had no pain, even after the 1st day. I attribute most of this to the time spent adjusting the fit of the bike, something I never spent more than a few minutes on even when I was riding 100s of miles per week years ago. I'm convinced I could put a number of different similar-type saddles on this bike and they would all be fairly comfortable.
So ditch the hipster saddle and embrace modern technology
