Originally Posted by
Wildwood
Love zombie threads. Missed it before.
Now I know why [MENTION=73614]rhm[/MENTION] was so hesitant to modify a bunch of saddles for me. Selle Anatomica is most comfortable for me out of the box.
I had them cut for a little extra comfort for this 72yo man. Not concerned if saddles last me only 20 years or a lifetime (which could be fewer years). Spreading the miles over many bikes/saddles means 'breaking them in' takes forever.
The B17 is now mounted, but with few miles. Very subjective initial impression = is better (for me) than std B17. I have narrow sitbones, but could not pass on the Amazon special for $85usd.
"Slash" is from RHM, a most comfortable perch.
Standard factory Selle Anatomica.
On 'modern' bikes I generally run 'modern' saddles with split rails or deeper depressions.
The cutout saddles do make sense, on the image that I did not delete in the quote, I note the saddle not perfectly aligned with the bike. I do that just a tad but to the other side, humans are not symmetrical. My right leg is a smidge shorter, my right foot a bit smaller and heels in, toes out. That helps, found by accident when the bike fell over 48 years ago and the seat post moved. No tool to realign, but I noticed the improvement right away. Huh.
Standard from then on.