Ok, you guys.

[Chicken Little]

Taking someone's advice here on the forum, I contorted myself last night to measure my stiz bones. Other than feeling like I was in a bad porn movie, I got a measurement of 850 mm! Is this even possible? And let's just say this isn't some kind of operator error- does anyone make a seat to hold those up?
What's going on with that? Should I be in a circus side-show? I look normal...

[alpinerabbit]

definitely not. you could prolly give birth to a baby giraffe if that was so. Try again.

[Becky]

*chuckles at AR's giraffe remark*

No, I don't think that 850mm is possible. How did you go about measuring?

[Kano]

Are you sure that's what the tape measure/ruler said? 850mm is like three quarters of a yard -- never mind giving birth to a giraffe, an elephant baby would likely pass through that!!!

Karen in Boise

[OakLeaf]

I had to look it up, an elephant's pelvic canal is more in the range of 400-500 mm. :cool:

[Zen]

I had to look it up
:D :D :D

[alpinerabbit]

So...

once we've all recoverd from chuckling, and the elephant AND the giraffe are back where they belong - please don't take what I (or the others) said personally, I'm sure you are a wonderful, pretty lady - now can you just feel for your sitbones to get a rough estimate? Should be way less than a hand span.

[Grog]

Maybe try measuring in inches (I assume that's the system you're most familiar with because you're in the USA) and then convert?

[Zen]

We may look dumb but believe it or not, we can figure out centimeters ;)

Chick- exactly what method did you use to measure? Did it involve sitting on foam or play dough? Or did you just wrap a tape measure around your butt?

[Skierchickie]

Hee hee! :D

Sorry Chicken Little - please believe that nobody would be laughing if this were physically possible (at least I would HOPE not!). I think maybe there was a bit of operator error. I think you must have measured the wrong bones, or something :confused:. 850mm = about 33.5". Just under a yard. The chair I'm sitting on is 16-1/2".

I didn't know you could even look up the size of an elephant's pelvic canal. :rolleyes:

[Chicken Little]

Um, maybe it's a math error. Let me pour a glass of wine, take myself to dinner, smoke a cigarette and get out the tape measure. It will take a little bit, as I can't do this at work. Post later. I am also laughing at myself!

[TxDoc]

Maybe your measuring tape has the first decimal, and it was 85mm instead of 850mm???
Thank you Alpinerabbit for the longest laugh of the day - the baby giraffe thing cracked me up!

[Chicken Little]

Okiedokie- after further measuring and investigation, I apparently pulled the wrong tape measure from the sewing box, the lights were dim, and I had just had a glass of wine, and only one contact was in place. Now, the correct measurement of my saddle sore hiney is 76.3mm. Not enough to pass a giraffe.

Anyway, is there is scale somewhere that tells me what saddle fits this measurement?

[Grog]

Hummmm...

Is it me or that's also odd?

[Tuckervill]

Yeah, don't we usually talk about like, 140 mm???

Karen

[ttaylor508]

Thought a visual might help here. Most bike shops have this handy device and will let you sit your hiney on it for free to take the measurement. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nidus-corp.com/TinyImages/LargeImages/assometer.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nidus-corp.com/bass.html&usg=__yY-CCIrnEbXlzalvT_7MSKVZ-z0=&h=514&w=600&sz=162&hl=en&start=1&sig2=8SmAxZe_mc1EM_4yMFlzuQ&um=1&tbnid=bSFcDG2TfLEhDM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmeasuring%2Bsit%2Bbones%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=PEgTSqzJG5TYlAeYpJDHAw

I have heard of people using playdough or a bag of flour as well.

[Chicken Little]

What the heck is wrong with me? I am feeling like a mutant. 6 inches is 152mm, correct? I just picked a random number and stuck it in a google converter.

Crap, lemme call an assistant. Now, this will be awkward...

[Grog]

Are you measuring centre-to-centre? (That's the Canadian way to do it. Center-to-center might be best in the USA.) :)

[Zen]

Thought a visual might help here. Most bike shops have this handy device and will let you sit your hiney on it for free to take the measurement. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nidus-corp.com/TinyImages/LargeImages/assometer.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nidus-corp.com/bass.html&usg=__yY-CCIrnEbXlzalvT_7MSKVZ-z0=&h=514&w=600&sz=162&hl=en&start=1&sig2=8SmAxZe_mc1EM_4yMFlzuQ&um=1&tbnid=bSFcDG2TfLEhDM:&tbnh=116&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmeasuring%2Bsit%2Bbones%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1&ei=PEgTSqzJG5TYlAeYpJDHAw


That is one scary illustration. Reminds me of a chicken.

Of all the threads I've seen about measuring sit bones I find this one to be the most entertaining by far.

[Tuckervill]

ROFL! I didn't even get to the full sized image before I cracked up!

It does look like a dancing chicken.

Karen

[OakLeaf]

Eek, that is a scary image! I didn't know we had to take our skin and flesh off before sitting on the butt-meter! :eek:

And, what's with the asymmetry? Is that even possible, or are they just trying to illustrate that it doesn't matter if you center your pelvis precisely on the meter?

[ASammy1]

OMG... that is the scariest thing I've ever seen...

[nolemom]

I recently was fitted at the LBS. Their contraption had a gel substance inside that left an imprint. My sitbones are know proudly displayed on the wall - my dh went in later that day and they happily pointed them out to him. :eek:

[Skierchickie]

Not so much scary as, well, crrreeeepppyyyy!

[Zen]

When you click "show full size image" note the name of the file.
"Azzometer" :D

[Chicken Little]

Went to the bike shop. Home with a Fizik and happy ***. Nothing grossly abnormal to report. Other than you probably wouldn't me to do anything that involves the metric system.

[lph]

That is one scary illustration. Reminds me of a chicken.


AAAH! :eek: