Have you got a fat arse?

Well, specifically I mean, have any of the men on here got wide sit-bones? Mine are really wide spaced - in the women's category, if I recall - and the Charge Spoon is proving to be really uncomfortable on longer rides or after a couple of days of medium rides. I kind of slide down across it, so the weight is being taken more on the inside of the sit bones, not on the underside.

I've UTFS and there's plenty of saddle convos, but nobody complaining of my specific problem that I can see - plenty of people saying they have wide hips and normal sit bones though. I have the opposite. If I missed a post, please do point me at it.

Looking at the Spoon, it does droop from the centre quite a bit - and there are other flatter saddles around I could try. But saddles are pretty subjective. So I'd prefer to cut some of the trial and error and make some educated choices of what to try if possible. Oh yes, and it needs to be white, which is cutting my choices down. Brooks don't make white saddles (not as standard, anyway).

I talked the bike shop near the City office into letting me test-ride a nice flat looking white saddle, fecked if I can remember the name (first day at work post swine flu, my mind wasn't quite 100%) but I do recall it was about £80. Which is a lot for a duff purchase if it isn't right. And I can only really go a couple of miles on it on a test ride, whereas I want a good 10 miles to get a proper feel for it, probably a few days. So I'll just have to take a punt at some point. I'm prepared to pay for decent arse comfort - but recommendations of other people with similar bone structure would help me make the choice I think.

For what its worth, any men tried using ladies saddles? Some of them are pretty unisex - just a little wider.

Pics?

..your mum has

Aww, I have an African bum, thanks to my family's genes. Once been described a white lady with a black ass. :S

I will keep an eye on this, as I think I need to know which one to look out for too.

Aww, I have an** African bum**, thanks to my family's genes. Once been described a white lady with a black ass. :S

I will keep an eye on this, as I think I need to know which one to look out for too.

Africa's a big place. Are we talking Benin or Mozambique?

Any shop which stocks Specialised saddles should have a gel filled pad attached to a cardboard backing with a measure printed on it.

Go into such a shop and ask for a sit on one- it will dimple most where your ischial tuberosities protrude- the bits you sit on.

Read off the measurement and then have a shufti at the saddles in the shop armed with a ruler.

You should then be able to make a good guess as to what you need.

Then ignore all that and buy a white Fizik Arione as they are the best saddles out there.

Africa's a big place. Are we talking Benin or Mozambique?

Angola. My mum, her dad, and his mother is from there. :)

ischial tuberosities

snicker

"I'm a lady.. I ride a ladies bike"

selle san marco have their S.I.Z.E saddles to cater for most sit bone widths

Any shop which stocks Specialised saddles should have a gel filled pad attached to a cardboard backing with a measure printed on it.

Go into such a shop and ask for a sit on one- it will dimple most where your ischial tuberosities protrude- the bits you sit on.

Read off the measurement and then have a shufti at the saddles in the shop armed with a ruler.

You should then be able to make a good guess as to what you need.

Then ignore all that and buy a white Fizik Arione as they are the best saddles out there.

Yup, t'was the Spesh shop I went to. My arse spacing was the same as the max width of standard men's saddles (155mm?) so I'd still be kind of on the edges. They had two models, one with a heavy droop (like the spoon) which I discounted and one (which I think was the Selle) which was pretty flat and looked like it'd be ok.

But appearances can be deceptive, as the Dalek said, climbing down off Dusty Bin...

did someone in the shop actually measure your arse spacing?

I don't have an arse, it's been pointed out numerous times that there is nothing there.

did someone in the shop actually measure your arse spacing?

I've seen people having this done. Most disconcerting.

I've seen people having this done. Most disconcerting.

They passed it on to some bloke just after me. It was probably still warm...

Great stuff, there's a right twat in my LBS, i'm going down there first thing tomorrow to insist the fucker measures my arse

PMSL

You just sit on a slab of gel foam that has a short memory for a couple minutes, then when you get up, they just read along the numbers to see how wide the depression you made was.

How about you ask them to look at your saddle, cos it's a bit wrong. And while his hand's on it, just whisper "I like to ride naked, you know..."

Do your balls make a depression? That would be embarrassing.

I actucally laughed out loud! :D

Do your balls make a depression? That would be embarrassing.

I'd be quite proud of that to be fair

I'd be quite proud of that to be fair

"The life within life, the sheer warm, potent loveliness. And the strange weight of the balls between his legs! What a mystery!"

Whataboutcameltoes?

if you like the spoon why not try the ladle, same saddle just the ladies version.

otherwise all of the body geometry saddles from specialized, i love my toupe for long rides.

Men get thrown out of bike shops for trying to find that out...

there is no doubt that the bike shop man will cling to me with a hiss of wonder that will also be awe and terror!