Numb bum?: good article in NYT on noseless saddles
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:57 am
Definitely important info on risks to nerves.
But I think a major point is missing from the article. If you are flexible, you don't actually sit on your perineum (the soft bit w nerves), you sit on your ischial tuberosities, your sit bones. If you're tight, your pelvis rolls forward onto the perineum.
I do regular back, hip, hamstring flexibility and have no perineum issues. But if I don't, I go numb, uh, there.
I think it's less useful to sell a new saddle than it is to remind cyclists they need flexibility as an important fitness component.