Many of you may understand that E@L's arse has been through the wringer over the past few years. Lots of surgeries and complications, nothing too lethal or all that life-threatening, but certainly annoying.
Don't worry, E@L is not going to post the photos of his many surgical wounds... Especially not the one where you can look into his perineal incision where his anus used to be, and, with a bright enough torch, see the back of his teeth...
Whatever you do, don't try to picture this in your head, it'll drive you insane with the horror, the horror.
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One of the issues with lying in bed for any stretch of time, and then not being allowed to exercise too hard, is muscle wasting. E@L's waist to hip ratio has gone exponential over the last 5 years as his old man butt has shrunk and succumbed to gravity. Pants that once were tight are now falling down, and not necessarily due to weight loss and/or shrinkage of his belly despite much less intestine living in there, but thanks to the minimisation of his gluteus maximus.
And for this reason, plus he lives on a hill, he hadn't been riding his bike for most of that recovery time...
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This double-bunger seat was purchased when he started doing a little riding in Singapore, 2010 or so. With some buddies, E@L would pedal along East Coast pathway, as far as a burger and beer bar past the airport, at Changi Beach. The Sea-Grill E@L thinks it was/is.
One of the issue he had with his road bike is the weight that has to placed on your hands. As you are leaning forward all the time, eventually (soonish) you get pins and needles in your fingers, and it just plain hurts your arms after a while. (Unless you are fit and light of body, or wear gel-filled gloves.)
His funny looking seat takes the weight of your back half, but not onto the perineum as a traditional seat with a "nose" does. Instead it goes onto the ischial tuberosities, the bones under your buttocks, and it leaves your perineum and wedding tackle free, with no risk to your prostate or coccyx bones.
E@L has moved this ischial seat this onto his current e-bike (see posts both past and future) and, unlike his old road bike, E@L sits up much straighter. There is much less pressure on his hands (even less with gel-filled gloves) and shoulders but a lot more of his substantial avoirdupois is relying on the bones under those much leaner buttocks, placing more responsibility on those rings of rubber to maintain his stability and comfort.
After nearly 3Mms (3,000kms), riding 5 times a week, those bones are starting to register their annoyance at this. Maybe it's the ischia, or maybe it's the emaciated glutes, but something isn't happy back there. The discomfort kicks in after 20km or so.
So he purchased a seat that came up on his FB feed, one from RockBros that promised the world... It was as wide as the double ring, at 25cm, and had a nose (and a slot to slide your goolies into), but it was much thicker, and therefore, hopefully, more cushioning. The main part of its support was for the ischial regions too, and after one test-ride, at 20kms his bum started to complain, just like it does with the ischial seat. Sigh.
So E@L has gone to Amazon and purchased an even wider seat, 33cm, hoping it will distribute his weight more evenly across what is left of his butt.
It arrives tomorrow. Report to come.
Meanwhile, have a seat
E@L
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