Your pedalling technique can play an important part in you being comfortable on your bike seat. Learn how good efficient pedalling can support comfort.
Bike Seat Comfort
Take a moment to look at your bike and your bike seat You need to sit on that seat and pedal. Your weight will be transferred through your tissues and structures that make contact with the seat for reasonably long periods and you need to pedal consistently. It shouldn’t really surprise us that finding comfort on your bike seat while you pedal may be challenging. What this tells me is to create a level of comfort you need to do ‘comfort on your bike seat’ really well – with a lot of precision.
Let’s look at how to pedal well so you can be an efficient rider and support your comfort on the bike.
Pedaling
Surely we don’t need to think about pedaling and how we do it….it is just natural isn’t it? There is a lot you can do and think about to improve your pedaling.
Learning how to pedal correcting will help you become an efficient rider and make riding easy. If our pedaling technique is good it will help our comfort on the bike seat and make sure the right parts of our body make contact with the seat. Please read our story Pedalling Technique .and start working on and thinking about how you pedal when you ride.
Good pedaling alignment.
Pedaling and Bike Seat Comfort
We want to emphasize some of the components of pedaling that are really important to supporting your comfort on your bike seat.
Alignment when you pedal.
As discussed in correct pedaling technique we need your hip, knee and ankle to be in alignment when you pedal. The most common issue is the knee falling slightly inwards. (The knee falls towards the midline) Without this correct alignment you can cause chaffing between your bike seat and your inner thigh.
Isolate the movement to the legs.
You want your pedaling action to occur only at your hip, knee and ankle. We want to eliminate any movement of the spine and pelvis. This is only possible if you have a strong and stable ‘A ‘ riding position and your bike saddle is positioned correctly ( for example your saddle is at the right height) Isolating your pedaling to your legs reduces any pressure on structures in and around the bike seat.
Discover more about your ‘A’ Riding position and Bike Saddle Position
Smooth action – your left and right leg are equal
Again we are wanting to reduce any areas of increased pressure on and around the bike seat. Having a smooth pedalling technique that focuses on precision and control through the movement will support your bike seat comfort. The left and right side should contribute equally to the pedalling action.
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