Originally Posted by
Lazyass
He stated "they aren't sitting on those bones". But yeah they are sitting on them. The sitbones have to be supported by the saddle or you wouldn't last 30 minutes. Anybody can put their hand under their butt while riding, in any bar position, and feel their sitbones pressing on the saddle. The contact points may change put it's physically impossible for the width of the sitbones to change. My leather Turbo saddles have permanent indentations from my sitbones. And the indentations aren't in multiple areas.
And I simply do not believe, as he stated, that customers with sit bone widths exceeding the total width of the saddle can ride those saddles with no other contact than the soft tissue in the sensitive areas. There's just no way.
I am in the same boat as the majority of people looking for a seat that isn't a pain in the @55. I get what Kontact is saying.
Yes it's true the width of the "sit bones" don't change, but they do not maintain the same distance from each other when viewed front to rear. One look at a pelvic bone image was worth a thousand words to me.
So as you lean forward onto the bars, the hips rotate forward to a section where the bones are closer together. Makes perfect sense, I just need a way to convert that into useful data for picking a saddle.