I am 6'4" 225lbs, and inherited my mothers wide child-bearing hips/ sit bones. The stock prologo kappa saddle that came with my CAAD 10 is WAY too narrow - the whole seat practically fits between my sit bones, and causes numbness pretty quickly.
My sit bones measure approximately 125-130mm apart. I have a planet bike A.R.S. Standard saddle, which is a 170mm width, and the fit is pretty good, but also feels a bit overly padded for long rides.
Does anyone have experience that can recommend a more performance oriented saddle that is available in wide width? Most of them seem to be anywhere from 130 - 155mm, which is not that wide. My kappa is 142mm.
I know this is an extremely subjective thing, but if anyone has recommendations for something in the 160-170mm range, that would be great. I do ride with aero-bars when I ride alone, but they are not extremely low.
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Wide width performance saddle
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Specialized road saddles come in widths up to 155 mm, and Bontrager (Trek) road saddles are available up to 148 mm. You might need something wider, yet, but these would be a considerable improvement over your Prologo. You might also look into the older designs that are still being made, the San Marco Rolls and Regal, and the Selle Italia's reissued Turbo.
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Originally Posted by oldbobcat [IMG]/img/forum/go_quote.gif[/IMG]
Specialized road saddles come in widths up to 155 mm.
Everyones butt is different but I've had some good comfort success with a Specialized Romin. Most dealers have a sit bone measuring tool to help nail down appropriate width. It's got a nice wide nose which seems to distribute the weight under my perineum well especially when "on the rivet".
The "Max" Flite (Selle Italia) is also a wider saddle, not sure of the exact width (150?) bit certainly wider than their regular Flite models.
There was some article recently on VeloNews maybe, that indicated a correlation betrween waist size and saddle width. Juxtapose that with Jens Voight's observations on a Specialized fitting session he went to with the team where some of the smaller guys ended up on wider saddles than some of the big guys.
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danfoz said:
Everyones butt is different but I've had some good comfort success with a Specialized Romin. Most dealers have a sit bone measuring tool to help nail down appropriate width. It's got a nice wide nose which seems to distribute the weight of my perineum well especially when "on the rivet". The "Max" Flite (Selle Italia) is also a wider saddle, not sure of the exact width (150?) bit certainly wider than their regular Flite models. There was some article recently on VeloNews maybe, that indicated a correlation betrween waist size and saddle width. Juxtapose that with Jens Voight's thoughts on a Specialized fitting session he went to with the team where some of the smaller guys ended up on wider saddles than some of the big guys.
The Max Flite is either 145 or 146mm wide. Selle Italia has both numbers on its website.......it's likely the temp they hired to put info on the web page hit a wrong key for one the Max Flite models. I use the Selle Italia Turbomatic (the new version), and it's 150mm wide. I dig it a lot. To the OP: I suggest you go to a few LBS to test ride some saddles. Seat time is the definitive tool for finding the right saddle. If the LBS won't let you test ride saddles or won't allow saddle exchanges for the price paid on saddle returned for exchange, they don't deserve your money.
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Originally Posted by alienator [IMG]/img/forum/go_quote.gif[/IMG]
If the LBS won't let you test ride saddles or won't allow saddle exchanges for the price paid on saddle returned for exchange, they don't deserve your money.
Especially since in some cases it can be determined in about 10 minutes or less. A bike saddle is like a wedding tux. It should fit (feel) pretty good right out the box. Then again I've seen some pretty atrociously fitting wedding outfits. Some folks are of the opinion a saddle (or an ass) needs to be broken in, I am not one of those people.
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