For Beginners - What is the single most helpful advice or change made?

[Gert Lush]

Your arse will hurt.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Your arse will hurt.

Non always: mine never did from the beginning, wearing ordinary leggings, no padding.

 

[Gert Lush]

Non always: mine never did from the beginning, wearing ordinary leggings, no padding.

Lucky you! I can't get mine to not hurt, currently in the try lots of saddles stage.

 

[mybike]

Non always: mine never did from the beginning, wearing ordinary leggings, no padding.

I will say, the first change I made to my son's bike was a decent saddle!

 

[mjr]

I will say, the first change I made to my son's bike was a decent saddle!

I'm now wondering what an indecent saddle looks like

http://m.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/happy-ride-vibrating-bike-seat_n_3644182.html ?

 

[mybike]

I'm now wondering what an indecent saddle looks like

http://m.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/happy-ride-vibrating-bike-seat_n_3644182.html ?

Like this:

No, that was my wife's saddle not mine.

 

[speccy1]

Sorry, I don't understand.

You soon will

 

[bozmandb9]

Just keep on doing it. Ride further, faster, and more frequently, it's the best addiction you can have, it never gets easier, you just go much further and much faster.