| Bicycle saddles will hurt for a while, especially if you haven't been riding much. You have three different adjustments: fore/aft, tilt (nose up or down), and height. Any or all of these three will affect how your saddle feels. Stem length will also affect how your saddle feels. A longer, low rise stem will have you stretched out, thus riding more on your pubic bone. A shorter/higher stem will have you sitting more on your butt bone (coccyx?). If I were you, I'd experiment with different saddle positions. A gel saddle pad is kinda' lame. If you plan on doing any serious cycling, you'll need to buy yourself some proper cycling shorts with a padded chamois. Yeah, they are expensive, but that's just the way it is. I can ride maybe an hour without cycling shorts. Any longer, and I'm missing my chamois in a big way.
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