Butt comfort

The ride to NH will be my first 2+ hour in many years. The comfort saddle I have is pretty good but I do start to feel it after a couple hours. Would you long distance veterans suggest I see how things go then pull out the Airhawk if needed or am I better off starting the ride with it?

Advil.

Airhawk. Buy it on Ebay. The "Medium Cruiser" seems to fit my butt and all my bikes.

Bill Dudley
71 Ambassador
93 SPIII

Bill Dudley resurfaces out of nowhere and responds to a post about “Butt Comfort”?

Where u been buddy? Welcome back.

Cam

I haven't gone anywhere. I just don't see you guys because you don't have a mailing list to announce breakfast or lunch events. Glad to hear from you, Cam; I'd wondered how you were.

Maybe the lack of a mailing list is why people don't show for breakfasts/lunch.
As far as the seat, obviously it's not the seat, as people put hundreds of miles on that seat.   Ride till it hurts, get off, have a coffee, walk around and get back on.  I've found that standing up ( on the pegs) to shake out your butt sometimes isn't always a Good idea because it hurts. worse when you sit back down.  Better to take a real break.  Keep pushing the comfort zone and in a few months you'll be pounding down 12 hour days.

I use an Alaska sheepskin for the butt burners.

Cam3512 wrote:I use an Alaska sheepskin for the butt burners.

Yes they work, I have one somewhere. Problem with sheepskin is if you get caught in the rain, it takes days to dry it out and what do you do with a hunk of wet animal skin if you can't sit on it. One seat cover could almost full up a saddlebag.
Most guys that use the beads like them, but also some (of the better riders) complain that sitting on the beads they can't 'feel' what the bike is doing under them.
Interesting and everlasting problem, everyone has their own way to deal with it.

mogu83 wrote:Maybe the lack of a mailing list is why people don't show for breakfasts/lunch.

IF under "Monthly Breakfast/Lunch" you had ONE topic for "monthly breakfast" and ONE topic for "lunch rides",
then the existing facility for emailing changes to a topic would make it so people got email announcements of
breakfasts.  As it is now, you have a NEW topic for every month, which means I can't get an email notification
unless I login and subscribe to each month's topic, which defeats the labor saving benefit of email notification.

Bill Dudley

OTOH - I go to my mail box (US Mail) every day to check if I have mail, because it's important to me.
So what's the big deal about going on the site every few days (using automatic login in you don't even have to do it manually) if your interested in what's going on in the group.
Right now we don't have people share their e-mail information. I've ended up on mailing lists that I was no longer interested in and couldn't get them turned off. IMHO if people can't drop in once a week then obviously they have little interest in participating in group activities.
The software we're using doesn't support mass mailings but it also costs nothing to use.

mogu83 wrote:OTOH -  I go to my mail box (US Mail) every day to check if I have mail, because it's important to me.
So what's the big deal about going on the site every few days (using automatic login in you don't even have to do it manually) if your interested in what's going on in the group.
Right now we don't have people share their e-mail information.  I've ended up on mailing lists that I was no longer interested in and couldn't get them turned off.  IMHO if people can't drop in once a week then obviously they have little interest in participating in group activities.
The software we're using doesn't support mass mailings but it also costs nothing to use.

THIS. Just bookmark it and check in every so often. Simple.

Bought a Skwoosh medium classic padded sheepskin on Amazon for $45. Looks to be good quality and feels quite comfy.