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General Topics/Tech TipsDiscussion on break in periods, rider comfort, seats and pad suggestions. Tech tips as they become available will be posted here.
Gold Bond powder or Anti Monkey Butt powder. Padded bicycle riding shorts with a shearling pad. L D comfort makes great riding pants also. Use with a shearling seat pad.
Yep.
I learned about this from a New Orleans motorcycle officer.
I watched them parade up and down the street during Mardi Gras one year. They had a staging area right by where we set up curbside. So I got up my courage up to ask to sit on one of their bikes for a photo op....whoa!
I was riding a RK myself at the time. So I was really doing homework. They were very gracious and let me sit on one. Then explained everything about the geometry and why it worked so well.
I got a police seat set up from ebay and verified everything myself. It's the answer. Mud fence ugly but it works.
Those police solo seats were also mounted with an air bladder. Like riding on a cloud he explained.
Now, if you're on a bike with mid set foot pegs your knees are going to be lower than your hips. Some of what I'm laying down here won't apply.
I'm riding a softail now with a seat laying on the frame rails. I know how to get it sorted out but haven't got around to it yet. I am a lot older now so I'm pretty much just riding short distance now.
Been riding for a whole lot of years and have heard of, tried and observed a number of ways to prevent monkey butt. Bead seats, fur seat covers, silk underwear, monkey butt powder, ventilated seats.
Some work, kinda.
Lets hear some other suggestions or experiences.
I tend to climb in the saddle and ride till I need gas again and in the summer in the south, gives me a case of the red ***.
Don't wear underwear. Or at least don't wear the kind with huge seams. I'm known as "the crazy guy" to my riding buddies because I've developed a riding style where on long straight stretches I lock the throttle, slide one cheek off the saddle, sit almost sideways and dangle the opposite foot. This gets air and blood flow back into your cheeks. I kinda lean with one arm on the backrest or bag behind me and the other on the handlebars. Just don't do that on any roads that aren't like freeways!
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Anti Monkey Butt
