I'll never complain about the C2 seat again

[SirWired]

Until yesterday, I've agreed with the posters that think the C2 seat is not as comfy as it could be.

Well, yesterday I borrowed a bike from a friend (just a cheap-o Schwinn she had bought for her son) and biked across the Golden Gate bridge. It's not a tough ride; about 7-8 miles from the SF waterfront to Sausalito. There are some reasonable hills, but I took a lot of breaks to enjoy the festivities as part of the 75th anniversary of the bridge that were going on yesterday. However, I don't even own a bike at home, and haven't ridden one in many years.

By the time I hauled the bike onto BART to go home, it felt like somebody had taken a hammer to my sitz bones and firmly, and repeatedly, gave them taps all day long. Ouch.

We aren't exactly talking a rugged mountain wilderness here; it's all paved trails with a few detours here and there on grass.

I'll admit that this was a cheap bike, and the seat may have been undersized. (Although I don't exactly have the world's largest butt, so I wonder who that seat WAS designed for...) But I'm not sure they could have made that seat more uncomfortable without just making it out of a 2x4.

Sitting on the erg this morning felt like settling into a Lay-Z-Boy in comparison!

SirWired

My "training program" (if you want to charitably call it that) is going well. My 60' pace boat is down to 2:12.5 for my next workout. I should be able to row an all-time PB for the piece at 2:09.9 or less by the end of the week. (That'll be a time trial-ish-like pace instead of the UT1 pieces I've been doing.) I go home from my long business trip the next day, so I should have a little time to recover since I won't be erging on Saturday.

[Carl Watts]

The Concept 2 seat is like a lazy boy compared to ANY bike seat unless your doing regular rides on a bike.

My backside is always the most sore part as I do next to no cycling these days...mainly because it's now basically suicide to ride on the roads over here.

[kayakr]

The "sore no more" pad is working well for me.

[wheelie]

Hi Carl, have problem with PM2 batteries corroded, would you be interested in fixing it for me

[Carl Watts]

Hi Carl, have problem with PM2 batteries corroded, would you be interested in fixing it for me

Only if your in New Zealand ! if your in the USA or Australia I would just buy a new PM3, they are very cheap over there.