I had been using a mtb saddle for my road bike (WTB Pure V) and the padding started to go out so decided to move over to more of a road saddle since I plan on doing a few centuries this year. I know saddles are a personal preference so I'm not asking for someone to recommend the perfect saddle, I'm just trying to figure out ones that I should try in the medium (say 140-150mm or so wide?) widths as that's what I've measured out on the Bontrager measuring tool. I'm 5'9" 170lbs if that helps. Here's the ones that I've tried so far and some brief thoughts of each:
Fizik Aliante: Nice in the tops, majority weight is on the back side of my sit bones and the rest is spread out relatively nicely on my backside. Need to play with angles more as I get numb if I go lower in the hoods or drops. ~100 miles on it.
Specialized Phenom SL 143: No problems with numbness with the cutout. However I feel like I'm perched on it so 90%+ of my weight on the two sit bone hot spots which will probably kill me after 60+ miles. ~40 miles
Fizik Arione: Narrow saddle but seems to support me alright. Probably won't work as the center ridge makes my taint have to make a choice of left or right side of the saddle. ~5 miles
Selle Italia SLR Gel Flow: Unless I'm in a really aggressive racing position with my hips really rotated forward my sit bones are on the curved edges and not really being supported. ~2 miles
I also picked up a Bontrager Inform RL to try out as well. But I haven't run it though the paces yet.
I still have all these saddles atm so if I need to somehow do something special with them I'm willing to try. But seeing how most of the popular saddles are of the narrow width (< 140mm) I'm trying to figure out a few more saddles to try out to try to find something that will disappear beneath me.
Fizik Aliante: Nice in the tops, majority weight is on the back side of my sit bones and the rest is spread out relatively nicely on my backside. Need to play with angles more as I get numb if I go lower in the hoods or drops. ~100 miles on it.
Specialized Phenom SL 143: No problems with numbness with the cutout. However I feel like I'm perched on it so 90%+ of my weight on the two sit bone hot spots which will probably kill me after 60+ miles. ~40 miles
Fizik Arione: Narrow saddle but seems to support me alright. Probably won't work as the center ridge makes my taint have to make a choice of left or right side of the saddle. ~5 miles
Selle Italia SLR Gel Flow: Unless I'm in a really aggressive racing position with my hips really rotated forward my sit bones are on the curved edges and not really being supported. ~2 miles
I also picked up a Bontrager Inform RL to try out as well. But I haven't run it though the paces yet.
I still have all these saddles atm so if I need to somehow do something special with them I'm willing to try. But seeing how most of the popular saddles are of the narrow width (< 140mm) I'm trying to figure out a few more saddles to try out to try to find something that will disappear beneath me.