E-Bike Seat

[WCB]

Anybody have a good recommendation on the most comfortable bike seat within reason on price? I just got an older RAMBO e-bike given to me and the seat absolutely destroys me just behind I guess where my ball joints would be between my legs. I've used it a couple times while hunting before it sucked. Just had it actually given to me and rode it around the neighbor hood for 30minutes and it was painful.

 

[keystone112]

Sometimes a bit less tire pressure will soften up the bump. Don’t feel like you have to run the tires on max pressure.

 

[blkqi]

Spend a little more time on the bike and saddle sores generally disappear.

 

[mtnbiker208]

thick and wide seats are not good. Saddle time is the only real cure.
also, there is a product called chamios butter that helps with stuff. apply it before you ride.

 

[kickemall]

This one. Have one on my mountain bike and stationary NordicTrack Cheap and comfortable

 

[ericmcd]

Cane creek thud buster seat post.

 

[Phaseolus]

1. Go to a real bike shop and get your ‘sit’ bones measured.
2. Buy a seat that fits the width of your bones as measured.
3. Buy a pair of padded liner shorts and wear whatever you like over them.
4. Buy and use something like chamois butt’r on your affected parts. After your butt hardens off you likely won’t need it assuming you ride often.
5. Fitment is important: seat height and angle play important roles as well as position of handle bars/reach etc.
6. You might discover that a Rambo bike is a Walmart bike with an electric motor and a poor fork which doesn’t do what a good fork will do.

 

[Ferrulewax]

I don’t care what anyone says. I got the fattest cushiest granny seat and my butt loves it. It’s probably not the most efficient for heavy pedaling, but it has worked great for me.

Ditto on airing down the tires. The difference is night and day.

 

[Phaseolus]

I don’t care what anyone says. I got the fattest cushiest granny seat and my butt loves it. It’s probably not the most efficient for heavy pedaling, but it has worked great for me.

Ditto on airing down the tires. The difference is night and day.

How many miles do you ride when you go out?

 

[Ferrulewax]

How many miles do you ride when you go out?

Usually 5 to 10. So I’m definitely not putting in long days of riding.

 

[JoeDirt]

I used a spring loaded seat post with a better seat.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0994JG65L?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_2&th=1

 

[bigmike23]

ALOT of people booger up bike seats. A big cushy bike seat is every bit as bad as a seat made of cement. Take a piece of perforated cardboard and place it on a hard flat surface. Sit down on it and squeeze your butt as hard as you can onto the cardboard. Youll see two round ball indents from your sitting bones.

Measure from center to center and get a seat just wider than that. If you go too wide you get bad chaffing on the inside of your thighs.

Your sit bones are not used to the pressure of the bike saddle. The greatest saddle on earth will be uncomfortable at first. You need some rides in to get your bones and muscles used to it.

 

[Erict]

I rode about 4000 miles road and gravel biking last year, but without knowing what your riding intentions are I can only recommend visiting a good bicycle shop if you have one nearby. You may simply need some small adjustments on your existing seat or even handlebars. Bike shops often have plenty of used saddles for sale and may offer to install and let you "test drive" a new one at the shop. Visit them during a slow time of day and you should find it well worth the trip. Good luck.

 

[Reburn]

Bike saddles are like boots and holsters. You just have to try a bunch to find what you like.
You have gotten good advice to visit a bike shop and get your sit bones measured. The cardboard method didnt yeild a clear inprint for me so I had to do the bike shop to get fitted.

 

[WCB]

6. You might discover that a Rambo bike is a Walmart bike with an electric motor and a poor fork which doesn’t do what a good fork will do.

Thanks for all the other tips...and as far as the Rambo bike goes...It was free and I don't have a huge need for an e-bike so it is a convenience thing. No intents to use it for anything other than quick in and outs from blinds or decoy spreads. But even the little I have used it in the field or the mile or two on the street absolutely kills my sittin bones.

 

[WCB]

I rode about 4000 miles road and gravel biking last year, but without knowing what your riding intentions are I can only recommend visiting a good bicycle shop if you have one nearby. You may simply need some small adjustments on your existing seat or even handlebars. Bike shops often have plenty of used saddles for sale and may offer to install and let you "test drive" a new one at the shop. Visit them during a slow time of day and you should find it well worth the trip. Good luck.

I'm honestly only going to use it for a couple mile at most in and outs of blinds/stands or in and out of decoy spreads when the truck has to be parked a ways away and I don't bring a wheeler. Pretty tame stuff but even a nightly ride around the neighbor hood absolutely kills me. As soon as I sit down it's like "NOPE"