Dear Liesl, The specialized ass-ometer (seriously) as described by others gives the most repeatable results. You might even like their saddles (most stores have a loaner program--take them up on it if interested).
I am comfortable (depending on context) on saddles ranging from 135mm to 170mm wide (if I sat genuinely upright on a cruiser, I bet a wider saddle would be okay, too), and sit right at the border between Specialized "narrow" and "meduium" widths. I do tend to trend toward saddles in the 140-145mm width range in plastic saddles, and around 160mm in suspended leather saddles, all with moderate pitch (fore-aft variation in elevation) and only slight to moderate roll (side to side curvature). Funny enough, I just slapped a Selle San Marco "bontrager titanio" saddle on my Boulder Road Sport bike and took it out, untested, for a 6 1/2 hour ride this afternoon. It was a climbing-intensive ride on an undergeared bike (so plenty of time out of the saddle in the 42X23), but it did fine. No numbness or squeaking soft parts. Width (checking with the calipers...): 116 mm! It is basically a 145mm saddle with the sides cut down for Keith's vision of mountain bike use (back in 1992), but proof that you never know what'll work well enough.... The Assometer, it isn't a bad starting place, but I wouldn't expect bone width to correspond too exactly to your preferred saddle. The proof of the saddle is in the seating. Best, Will William M. deRosset Fort Collins, CO On Sunday, July 12, 2015 at 10:53:24 AM UTC-6, Liesl wrote: > > Okay, Rivit Beth writes in their website: "There are plenty of ways to > measure your sit bones, so I won’t go into them all here. Simply, you can > do it yourself or have help from a friend, or spend a lot of money having > someone do it for you. If you have a willing partner, use a measuring tape, > assume the position and have at it!" > > I am, for everyone's benefit, not gonna go into too much detail here > but...(pun unavoidable) bending over, finding/palpating which part of the > pelvis is actually what you sit on, discovering a ruler is not up to the > task, and switching to calipers.... > > In the end (again, pun unavoidable) we got several rounds of wildly > inconsistent data and I have no idea what the distance between my sits > bones is but, I must say, the laughter was good for our souls. > > We might try the sit-on-a-piece-paper-on-some-foam technique. > > I hesitate to ask, but any advice or wisdom from this august group? > > Riv Chica "Ever the High Road" Warrior -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
