My butt hurt
Hello !
Its my turn to ask help 😅 M30 1m87 I ride a Canyon Aeroad SL8 for 3 years now, only 7k km with it. The bike was never very confotable for me but I was able to ride 3 hours before having little pain. I prepare l’Etape du Tour (yes in 2 weeks) and one month ago after a 5h ride I had pain in the left testicles. After that I started to move a little bit the saddle, angle, front/rear position and I modified the fit from a bad to a worse settings… On the bike I have the original saddle selle italia model x 145mm. I tried another saddle selle italia 135mm and it was not better. Then I measured the gap between my ass bones (120mm) and came back to the 145mm saddle. Now I’m back with "default" settings, inseam x 0,885 for the saddle height, saddle in the middle position (rear/front), and an angle near to 0 degree. The issue is that my perineum hurt and become numb during long ride.
I’m not new on the sub so I already now that my saddle is too high 😅 and honestly it looks too high on the picture but I think its adequate to my pedaling technique. Any tips would be appreciate. Of course I will not apply any "big" change 2 weeks before l’Etape but if a small adjustment can make the difference I will try.
I also attach a small video in the comments