650B Elephant National Forest Explorer

I see you've a selle smp saddle. How do you find it? I'm thinking of trying one to relieve pressure.

I've been experimenting various saddle in the last couple months, the one prior to the SMP was the Fizik Versus saddle, which at first try, was amazingly comfortable due to it's massive channel in the middle.

It made a difference, also made me realised just how much pressure my perineum is under, it was less obvious with the rubber/leather saddle that provide a soft cushion instead of a hard shell, the Fizik Versus basically tried to removed all pressure from the perineum.

However this wasn't enough, the disadvantage is that it's a traditional saddle that relied on your sitbones, the fact it got padding mean it doesn't quite hold you up, incidentally it was comfortable because I was not sitting with my sitbones, until 3-4 hours later when the saddle depressed enough.

I also learnt that there's no link between your sitbones width and the saddle width, it make no difference, according to the Specialized Body Geometry Fit chart, I have an extremely wide sitbones that suppase the widest of Brooks saddle, yet, I'm still perfectly fine with normal/narrow saddle.

I start to think how I am sitting and since it wasn't the sitbones, it's more on the middle of the saddle where the bones on between the perineum is at, least that what it felt like.

I'm still experimenting with the position of the SMP as you have to throw away what you know about positioning your normal saddle, the SMP need to be set further forward, positioned accordingly that you "rest" on the middle of the channel.

The one I have on the bike is the Composit which is very narrow but surprisingly enough, held me well, I'm still a novice with the SMP position as it's not quite right yet (the more I ride them, the more I kept moving it forward), thought I'm slowly getting there, it make sense, just feel very awkward as you feel pressure on areas you never knew exist, but not the bad kind of pressure, just different.

@scherrit stock SMP I think, and he know a fair amount of fitting them properly, I should go back to him soon to get some idea of how to properly fit it, I own him some money I kept forgetting to pay back, oop.