Hi everyone. So we’ve gotten a lot of questions about the fitting for the VSEAT®, and how to get it perfect for you. And today Bryan’s going to walk us through just how you do that. Definitely. Great idea tuning in because the VSEAT® is truly a different ride. All right, so let’s start with the basics. You’ve received your VSEAT® and you’re wondering, where do I even start with this? Here’s a good rule of thumb. Stand up right next to your VSEAT®, and you’re going to put the height somewhere right in the middle of your butt, so not too high not too low.

Start in the middle to begin with. What you’re doing ideally is you’re sitting on your sit bones, which sit another inch or two down here. The difference between here and your sit bones is basically making up for the difference between the pedal and the ground. Go ahead and have a seat. All right, so you’re sitting on your VSEAT® now and you’re doing some pedaling. May feel strange at first. You can go ahead and stand up and sit down a couple times. There you go. And let’s just do it one more time and sit back down.

Perfect. What this does is eventually gets your brain used to learning where to sit properly, which is on your sit bones, as we’ll get into in a little bit here. But first, let’s pay attention to the leg extension and make sure we have proper leg extension. Now what we’re going to have you do is pedal and hold your foot at the bottom of the pedal, so right about here. So, when your pedal’s at the very bottom you want almost full leg extension.

This is proper for whatever bike seat you’re riding, whether it’s a saddle or a VSEAT®,  you want about full leg extension but not fully. Go ahead and do a few more revolutions. Let’s just pay attention to how her legs look here. What we’re going to do next is throw on a traditional saddle and you will see that her leg extension is going to be similar, even though the height of the seat will change a little bit. Go ahead and stop, and step off. Perfect. So just so we can see the numbers of where we’re starting at, we take a look at the height here and with my finger across, we’re looking we’re at about 34 and a half inches from the ground up.

Let’s go ahead and change out the seat. I’m going to hand this to my lovely assistant here, also the boss. Okay, pop this, let’s take a look at our height now to make sure we’re similar. So now we see that the top of this seat is easily 1 inch higher, we’re at 35 and a half  and a little bit higher. So we’ve come up a full inch from where the VSEAT® was, and we’ve made no other adjustments. Okay, we’re going to have you go ahead and pedal on there. Oh my lord, this is not comfy. This is what we’re doing for you at home folks.

She’s sacrificing herself on a traditional saddle so that we can demonstrate proper fit. Okay, so let’s go back to looking at her revolutions. Now she’s once again, similar to where she was before. Let’s have you stop your foot towards the bottom. So you can see, once again, a similar knee extension, but as you saw before, that saddle is an inch higher. Here’s the reason why. Go ahead and you can get off of that now. No more pain for you.

So the difference between this and the VSEAT®. When you’re sitting on your sit bones, your sit bones are about an inch or two lower than the soft tissue that you are sitting on with your traditional saddle. On top of that, this is also going to squeeze the soft tissue up, it’s going to compress even more, and you’re going to lose some of your leg strength, or your your pedal cycle as the soft tissue compresses more. When you’re sitting on your sit bones, there is no compression. You’re on your bones, you’re on the structure, this is going to stay right where it is.

But you can see that there is a clear difference between the height of where your sit bones are versus your soft tissue, and that will make a big difference in the comfort of how you ride. I’m going to swap these back and we’ll go through through a few more things. You can throw that in the trash. Okay so going back to our proper fit, go ahead and hop on. Okay how’s that? How’s the difference? Oh my God, what a relief. You’ll notice the same exact thing as well. So going back once again, we see she’s getting her proper range of motion. Her sit bones are on the seat balancing her body properly, versus the soft tissue that goes up above.

Like I said when you first start riding, this is going to feel a little bit different, because all of your weight is now on your sit bones versus distributed among the nose of the seat and the soft tissue getting compressed. Supported properly, this is going to be a much more comfortable ride, but at first it’s going to be strange for the brain because it’s looking for that nose the first couple rides. Once you get through that and you’re used to this, you’re never going to want to go back. Get your VSEAT® today. Don’t suffer anymore!