One annoying side-effect of the cheap plastic saddle
After only 3 100s (two actual 100s plus 100km of transit moves out to and back from the west side on Saturday) I think I’m developing, for the first time in my life and after riding leather saddles for about 34,000 miles in the last 4 years (and 10,000 miles in the last 10 months) without any of the traditional bikey butt-protective devices, a saddle sore.
Siiiiiiiiiigh.
Now this is a dilemma. There are a lot of plastic saddles out there, and I don’t have the slightest idea of which ones would actually work as a good replacement for the Berthoud I’ve got on the midlifecrisismobile right now (that Berthoud is still on the mlcm, of course, and it’s not going to be replaced until it disintegrates, but I’m less likely to put Berthouds on my other bicycles ‘cuz vegan.)
I suppose I could take a plastic saddle, strip the cover off, and fabricate a cover of my own that’s got some sort of breathable fabric along the areas where my bottom is currently expressing it’s displeasure with the current state of affairs. But, at least for the short term, I’m going to put the midlifecrisismobile back into service as soon as I install the cross fork and braze up another front rack to fit onto it (I need to beef up the fork crown mount considerably, and think it might work better to do it on new steel than the existing one) and relocate my butt onto a somewhat more breathable if less waterproof saddle.