My bike is an instrument of torture...what am I doing wrong?

[MikeWaters]

Originally Posted by delux_247

1. Yes. The bike shop fit the bike for me when I brought it in.
2. Yeah, I'll try some gloves. Any recommendations?
3. What can I do to get more pressure on my butt? Lower the seat maybe?
4. Yeah, need some shorts. Any recommendations for those too? Not so much chaffing that hurts...more the pressure from the seat.

2. I liked my old pair of specialized. with gel.
3. one thing you can do is change your handhold positions. Like ride the top of the bar, then get on the hoods, then back and forth. Get in the drops for a while. Remove a hand from time to time and shake it. 3 miles is an extraordinarily short time to get numbness. You're doing something wrong.
4. Pearl izumis.