I want a better Bike Seat

I recently started cycling a lot and my body likes most of the experience. However my toes go numb after cycling for just a bit longer than 20 minutes, the seat cuts of the blood flow.

I’ve now bought a new bike, that came with a better seat, which has an opening in its center, which is supposed to help prevent the blood circulation issues. Indeed I can cycle for longer periods of time without going numb, but not much longer. After maybe 40 minutes my toes go numb again.

So I did a research looking for a better bike seat, results of which I’ve summarized in this article: Safe Bike Seats For Men and Women. The main discovery for me was the fact that this issue may lead to an erectile dysfunction (impotence). It also affects women just as well as men (different problems though, read the article for details).

As I wrote in the article I bought a “Spongy Wonder” bike seat, which is made of two halves, and it does seem to solve the blood circulation cut-off problem of the cut off circulation. The problem is that it’s very uncomfortable. Because it doesn’t have a nose, it’s much harder to stabilize the bicycle and I’ve noticed that I now put too much strain on my arms, gripping the handle bars. So one problem has been replaced with another.

Did you experience a similar issue and found a possible solution that doesn’t introduce other problems?

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I want a better search at Craigslist.com

I often use craigslist.com and it is a very useful service. It let’s me accomplish what I need, no ads and no usage charges.

The problem is its search feature. Ideally when I search to rent a place I want to narrow down the search results not only by $$-range and number of bedrooms, but most importantly “the location“. And the latter need of mine is not being satisfied.

For example if I’m looking for a place in Downtown area, I can’t just search for “downtown”, because some posters didn’t specify the location as “downtown” or they did, but misspelled it.

Because I don’t want to miss potential deals, I end up not trying to narrow the search results by location, and instead wade through lists of irrelevant posts, sometimes missing critical posts because of that.

This problem is non-specific to apartment search, but applies to all other otherwise great features of craigslist.com.

Here is how I see this problem can be fixed:

When users submit a post, in addition or instead of the free form “Location” input field add a pull-down list of suggested neighborhoods. and then allow others to narrow the search down based on one or more selections in the neighborhood list.

Once this post gains enough votes I’ll forward this entry to the craigslist management, if they won’t beat me to it.

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