Originally Posted by
lostarchitect
Noseless saddles are snake oil. If the saddle is set up properly, and is correct for the rider's sit bones, there is little pressure on the perineum--especially with a hard saddle like a Brooks which doesn't have padding that squishes upwards.
Those aren't leather saddles but if you look at the design, hardness of those saddles (first column on the right next to weight is hardness (60 being quite hard, 45 softer), the next one is pressure relieve level (the higher the better)) you will notice that some saddles that are pretty close to brooks saddles like the 611 one barely reach 75% of pressure relieve. I doubt brooks can do much better on this. Noseless saddles like the one at the top reaches 100% pressure relieve.
