Nobody likes getting a sore bum when cycling. The Air Seat is made with that fact in mind, as it adds what is described as a “full-floating” coil suspension system to existing saddles.

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    https://canecreek.com/product/thudbuster-lt/

    Save your spine: get a parallelogram-hinge shock-seatpost.

    The other brand that was making them ( the “tricky dick” ) was using a spring, instead of elastomers, & I’d read that the spring would be wrecked whenever the thing was bottom’d out.

    They’re gone, now, so those reviews apparently were indicative of a fundamental engineering problem with that alternative.

    Definitely, though, save your spine, & get one of those parallelogram-hinge things.

    When you hit a bump, your arms don’t magically-shorten, they act as pivots, right?

    Your butt needs to go both back & down, in relation to the normal-seat-location.

    It’s a basic geometric fact.

    And with you being kinder to your spine, your years-being-able-to-ride can be extended, noticeably.

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