Your saddle choice depends on your anatomy and your bike's anatomy, your ridding position and for that matter what shorts you wear. Brooks is suppose to be coming out with a vegetarian saddle sometime soon. You might want to look into the Selle SMP lineup of saddles. I tour on a SMP TRK saddle. It is not expensive but it works for me in conditions from steep single track descents in a very up right position to more a prone position on the aero bars. The "boys" particularly like it on heavily rutted dirt roads.