# My bum hurts. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 1, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768 "2005-07-01T22:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768/1 "2005-07-01T22:37:45Z")
Or, rather, it is saddle-sore. I just bought a new mountain bike and because I haven’t ridden one for a while my bum (particularly the bony part in the middle) has got to get used to the saddle. I went for a ride today. It hurt for a bit, but I am inclined to believe in the concept of ‘working through the pain’ because before long some quite rough terrain was causing no pain at all. The bike I bought is double-suspension (It is bouncy at both ends) I’ve done this before (spent ages not riding, then started riding, only to have a temporary sore-ass) Do other on-off cyclists experience this phenomenon? ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768/2 "2005-07-01T22:43:40Z")
Excuses, excuses… :: Stern voice & scary scowl :: Come along, **Master Lobsang** , all these fibs aren’t helping you. I can wait all day, so it’s your time you’re wasting. Now, I’ll ask you again, _what have you been doing?_ ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768/3 "2005-07-01T22:53:19Z")
You must know by now that I have no life. Therefore you should also know that when I say my bum hurts for some mundane boring excusable uncontroversial non sexual reason - it probably does. Prepare for some serious waiting. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768/4 "2005-07-01T22:57:35Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > some mundane boring excusable uncontroversial non sexual reason Trouble is, I have to translate this to fit into a Manx existence. And I know nothing about this whatsoever, so my imagination fills in the blanks. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768/5 "2005-07-01T22:59:12Z")
Why? Was he on bumfights? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2005, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768/6 "2005-07-01T23:31:24Z")
Bummer. ---
**Author:** ![Can\_Handle\_the\_Truth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Can\_Handle\_the\_Truth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Can_Handle_the_Truth)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768/7 "2005-07-02T15:16:16Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > I just bought a new mountain bike and because I haven’t ridden one for a while my bum (particularly the bony part in the middle) has got to get used to the saddle. > > I went for a ride today. It hurt for a bit, but I am inclined to believe in the concept of ‘working through the pain’ because before long some quite rough terrain was causing no pain at all. > > The bike I bought is double-suspension (It is bouncy at both ends) > > I’ve done this before (spent ages not riding, then started riding, only to have a temporary sore-ass) > > Do other on-off cyclists experience this phenomenon? Yeah, the same thing is happening to me. I bought a mountain bike 6 weeks ago and rode it for 20 minutes a day on smooth pavement. My ass has been killing me ever since. I hurts when I sit down but the worst pain occurs as I’m in the process of standing up after sitting for a while. I haven’t ridden the bike for 4 weeks and the pain has not deceased at all. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768/8 "2005-07-02T15:34:55Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Do other on-off cyclists experience this phenomenon? Quite being such a skirt and stop your whining. Just ride. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2005, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768/9 "2005-07-02T16:01:17Z")
My butt hurts, too. I went out on my bike for the first time in a year. It doesn’t hurt if I sit up straight properly, but if I lean forward a bit, then that bony part in the middle does hurt. Ow… ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768/10 "2005-07-03T00:55:26Z")
Gentlemen, have you not heard of gel seats? Extra padding? Saddles with a neat hole in the middle so that your prostate isn’t squished? Get thee hence to a cyclemonger, and purchase a comfortable seat. keeeripes, some people;) Vlad/Igor ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2005, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-bum-hurts/310768/11 "2005-07-03T01:35:01Z")
Well, courtesy of today’s Tour de France Time Trial prologue winner (went searching about to see who he was), here is the professional’s guide to [Main-Taint-ance](http://www.davezabriskie.com/pages/4/index.htm) (scroll down a little).