Comfort

I've just discovered Assos shorts!  They are one of the best comfort upgrades you can get for your bike - it's like wrapping a duvet round the saddle!

They're not cheap, and it seems wrong to be paying more for a pair of shorts than you'd pay for a saddle.  I have tried for comfort; I've got a seatpost with Zertz elastomer inserts, and a Koobi PRS Alpha saddle with elastomer shock absorbers.  But the shorts have had by far the biggest effect.  Helen and I both have them, and can't recommend them highly enough.

And on the subject of saddle comfort, I posted a while ago, waxing lyrical about the wondrous new seatposts with fore-and-aft screws.  Well, I was wrong, wrong, wrong!  While they are good in terms of seat angle adjustment, but the need for a screw in front of the seatbost forces the clamp to be positioned above the seatpost rather than behind it.  So, unless your saddle rails go a long way forward, or your seat tube is angled well back, you end up with the saddle too far forward, putting too much pressure on the sit bones, and/or the hands.