If you read the various threads on saddles and fannies and their various unions, you will see that they are a lot like marriages. Some pairings take a lot of work to make successful. Many saddles that some riders love, others think should be outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. Every rider has had the experience of looking at another rider's saddle and thinking how can he ride something that narrow/wide, soft/hard, with/without cutouts? In short, what does she see in him?