Bicycle seats can can turn you into Bob Dole

Science on the march: riding bikes can kill your sex drive or leave you impotent.

Speaking truth to penises everywhere is Dr. Goldstein, a Boston urologist: "We make kids wear helmets and knee pads, [...] [b]ut no one thinks about protecting the crotch."

Let's all concentrate on protecting the crotch, people.

Humor aside, back in my bike riding/racing days, I always developed numbness, which often lasted several hours after the ride ended. Thankfully it never progressed further.

[...] The studies, by researchers at Boston University and in Italy, found that the more a person rides, the greater the risk of impotence or loss of libido. And researchers in Austria have found that many mountain bikers experience saddle-related trauma that leads to small calcified masses inside the scrotum.

Jesus, internal scarring of the nuts, it's too horrible to contemplate.

This does not mean that people should stop cycling, Dr. Schrader said. And those who ride bikes rarely or for short periods need not worry.

But riders who spend many hours on a bike each week should be concerned, he said. And he suggested that the bicycle industry design safer saddles and stop trivializing the risks of the existing seats. [...]

Researchers have estimated that 5 percent of men who ride bikes intensively have developed severe to moderate erectile dysfunction as a result. But some experts believe that the numbers may be much higher because many men are too embarrassed to talk about it or fail to associate cycling with their problems in the bedroom. [...]

Cutting to the chase: the best bike seats have no nose. Those are the goofy looking things old people have on their bikes. Make that clever old people.