Just got back from having a bike fit, having measured my sit bones (properly) he fitted me on a 143mm prologo dimension. Prior to this I was on a 155 spec power. My question is as the fit was going forward we was try various saddles, traditional saddles, saddles with a cutout, short nose saddles, saddles with no cut out and I ended up on a short nose with less width, as we was testing all these saddles the 2 short nose ones felt the best with a large cut out, the other longer saddles (traditional) was like sitting on a piece of cement with some pushing right into my soft tissue. Anybody else who literally can not ride anything but a short nose large cutout?
Makes me wonder how people cycles in 80s/90s without these!
I tried all those cut out saddle i eventually found I am very flexible and flat fits.
I have ridden London Edinburgh London (1400Km) in 4 days with this saddle. 18 hours a day.
We are all different shapes. Certain saddles from the 90’s i remember were more padded and no flex, I had a Carbon fiber saddle with a layer of leather covering the carbon fiber and to tell the truth felt okay at the time… I still have that saddle in the garage … Just in case i want to go back to saddle sores LOL.
I’ve tried all those as well and went through months of discomfort and downright pain until my fitter put me on a SQLabs labs saddle. All pain is now gone and I can “comfortably” manage 4-5 hour rides with it.
