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Cycling's Silent Epidemic: Labial swelling and pain in women

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Re: Cycling's Silent Epidemic: Labial swelling and pain in women

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Do you have firsthand experience with both?

The first 2 comments on HN on this article about women in cycling are talking about men in cycling instead. It’s fascinating. I can’t tell if it’s a sign of HN commenters never talking about the topic itself, about HN being predominantly male, or the fact that women issues are constantly ignored in society and men tend to make things about themselves instead.

Balls and shafts stick out more than labia, so in this situation, it's entirely fair to suspect that the remedies for male cycling problems are of (even more) benefit to women. You know, like split saddles that don't poke at the crotch region, but support the "sit bones". Which are unlike the garbage saddles that come most cheap, bicycle-shaped objects.

Re: Cycling's Silent Epidemic: Labial swelling and pain in women

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Odds are the demographics shift that way on this site.

That's not an excuse. Men can and should be capable of "oh shit, we should fix this bad experience women have!" Without needing to center men's experiences.

Or I don’t know, women could do it

Re: Cycling's Silent Epidemic: Labial swelling and pain in women

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i cycled thousands of kilometers on this: https://mantasaddle.co.uk/ and i used Brooks and other good stuff before, for thousands of kilometers... the former doesn't even compare! no need for cycling shorts (tho i never used shorts with the Brooks too) and maybe isn't the most aerodynamic saddle out there but who f* cares :P

edit: and i use exclusively the MS5 version, which has less room to distribute pressure

Re: Cycling's Silent Epidemic: Labial swelling and pain in women

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I cannot comment on women issues, but for men, unless you are a pro racer, buy a brooks saddle. After break-in I never had issues and it was like riding on a cloud. I expect the same would be true for women too. Also for break-in, follow brooks recommendations closely, not all the crazy suggestions on the WEB. After a season of riding almost every day, you will be sitting on a cloud. You do not want a soft saddle, bu…

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Re: Cycling's Silent Epidemic: Labial swelling and pain in women

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The first 2 comments on HN on this article about women in cycling are talking about men in cycling instead. It’s fascinating. I can’t tell if it’s a sign of HN commenters never talking about the topic itself, about HN being predominantly male, or the fact that women issues are constantly ignored in society and men tend to make things about themselves instead.

The article also includes a paragraph about erectile dysfunction in men.

... as a point of contrast between how men's and women's health are discussed. Here, HN illustrates the issue raised in the article. We could hope to do better, primed with such information, to have a curious conversation about how to prevent labial swelling before it requires labiaplasty.

Re: Cycling's Silent Epidemic: Labial swelling and pain in women

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I don't get it. Just get a big nice well padded seat. Who cares if it weighs 500 grams? Doesn't matter unless you're in tour the France or something. No good reason to use those horrible diamond hard lightweight seats.

Well padded seats are less comfortable, they give and then you just chafe. You want to be on your sit bones.

A lot of people including me have great experience with gel-padded saddles (Sportourer FLX in my case). No chafing or any other issue even after >100km rides. On the other hand, I can't ride unpadded saddles even with well-padded shorts; it's just too painful. I've tried several.

Re: Cycling's Silent Epidemic: Labial swelling and pain in women

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Odds are the demographics shift that way on this site.

That's not an excuse. Men can and should be capable of "oh shit, we should fix this bad experience women have!" Without needing to center men's experiences.

> That's not an excuse. Men can and should be capable of "oh shit, we should fix this bad experience women have!"

Why?

I never see any of the womens books, magazines and websites my wife visit ever go "Oh shit, we should fix this bad experience for men first" before discussing anything.

Demographics discuss what they find relevant, usually. Why is this a problem for you?

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