Originally Posted by
prooftheory
This kind of sentence marks you as the type of rider who likes to go their own way, which is cool but most bike seats aren't designed to distribute pressure evenly across the entire surface of your rear because freedom of leg motion is a more important consideration even in the summer with the determining factor for width being the width of the sit bones.
Sheldon Brown:
This doesn't contradict what i've said. All of this works provided that there is no shafing. Read my post
#7
Maximizing the surface means that your nose will have to be as wide (and flat) as possible without generating shaffing at the inner legs area.
Furthermore, Sheldon Brown is basing his explanation more on the rear part of the saddle when i'm dealing more with the nose of the saddle. We reunite in the middle though.
http://www.sq-lab.com/en/sqlaborator...ontact-en.html
