A COMFORTABLE BIKE SEAT
Irwin Goldstein, professor of urology at the Boston University School of Medicine,
claims that 100,000 American men become impotent, some permanently, because they ride a bicycle. He
claims that the seat presses on the pudendal nerves, crushes them and prevents messages from
traveling along the nerves, causing impotence. He also claims that "men should never ride bicycles.
Riding should be banned and outlawed. It's the most irrational form of exercise I could ever bring
to discussion."
I
have spend hours each week riding a bicycle and admit that I used
to suffer terribly for this privilege, but now we don't suffer
any more. As far as most bicycle seats are concerned, Dr. Goldstein
is correct. The sitz bones are located on each side where you sit.
Your doctor calls them ischial tuberosities. They are made for
sitting because they are two huge boney bumps that have no nerves
in them. Muscles attach on them and are covered with fat to protect
them when something presses on them. The nerve supply to the penis
and clitoris comes from two nerves that travel above and below the
ischial tuberosity sitz bones, so you don't want anything to press
above or below the sitz bones to crush the nerves and cause impotence
and lack of orgasms.
Bicycle seats are shaped like bananas because bicycle racers do not
want any structure behind their legs. Many claim that wide seats prevent
them from extending their legs backward to achieve a full pedal stroke.
Because most bicycle riders want to look like racers, most bikes are
equipped with banana-shaped seats and many people hate riding a bicycle
because they lose feeling in their pelvis when they ride and men become
impotent and women are so sore they have no interest in lovemaking.
I cannot believe that anyone would want to ride on a banana seat when he
or she could have a seat that is made for the sitz bones to exert no
pressure on the center of the pelvis where the pudendal nerve travels
toward the penis and clitoris. Seats that have a hole in the middle are
worthless because the front part where the hole ends still presses on
the pudendal nerves. Seats that are wide in the back allow a person to
sit on the sitz bones and those that do not have any nose whatever do
not press on the pudendal nerves. One such seat is called THE SEAT and
is shaped like a rectangle with no nose, so there is no pressure on
your crotch. You can read about it on www.ergo-theseat.com.
The seat we used before has a wide back, but it still has a nose so
it can still press on the pudendal nerve. It's called the Halo-Flex
seat. We used it for years, but have switched to the rectangular seat
because it has no nose. Now we can ride for hours without feeling any
discomfort.
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