Originally Posted by
philbob57
I had to go into your profile to see that your home page is kontactbike.com, a website that sells seats and books, including Finding the Perfect Bicycle Seat.
IMO, if you have an interest in a business connected with your posts, you owe it to your readers to mention that up front. I don't question your belief in your products, but you're not completely objective. I ask you to mention explicitly your connection with kontact in, say, a tagline, which gets it into every post. I know you need to mention it explicitly in anything you post about seats/saddles.
I think your connection with kontact blinds you to the benefits of the Cervelo document. I, too, think they should have explicitly mentioned the pubic rami, but even though they did not, they posed some questions that help buyers sift through marketing crap.
I have great respect for Kontact and find that he is very careful to offer objective (and very good IMO) advice on general saddle issues, never pushing or even mentioning his products. Until you brought it up.
I've found that a very important step in finding the correct saddle is to first sit on it in only thin nylon running shorts, even taking first rides on it wearing same. The pads in modern cycling shorts tend to sort of "smear" the contact area so you can't tell precisely what's pushing on what. In use on a well-fitting saddle, this is a good thing, but it makes it more difficult to assess things which might become a problem over the hours.