design
so why do bicycle saddles have noses? surely it's not to sterilize the bicycle douche crowd. google implied it's for controlling and/or stabilizing the bike while making racing turns. which i do pretty much zero times per year. i also noticed that my ideal weight position is about 8 cm aft of the seat pipe axis. which seems like a pretty serious design flaw. i can't just mount an ergonomic saddle on the top of the slidey pipe. it has to have some sort of sturdy (and thusly heavy) arm that supports the load that is me off center from the trunk support. it's obvious that there's a huge amount of design effort spent on bicycles. how come, for all practical purposes, none of it is spent on not damaging one's sensitive bits?