Sit bone width

[sandra]

How do you tell what it is? I read here where someone sat on a piece of paper in their office chair. I tried that and could not tell a thing from it.

[li10up]

I got a little ribbing from this but how I measured mine was to put some Playdough between waxed paper and then sit on it. Very easy to see the indentations from your sit bones. Who's that laughing???

[sundial]

I took a piece of paper and put it on a shop stool. Becauser I had to sit lower, I think my sitbones left better impressions. I found this worked best.

If you know of a Specialized dealer, they have a butt-o-meter to measure your sitbones.

[Tri Girl]

You chickies must have some boney butts- with all the padding on mine I couldn't get a clear definition of my sit bones.

Butt-o-meter, eh??? Even if I didn't need my sit bone measurement- might be something I'd have to try out- just to do it...

[mtbdarby]

I swallowed my pride and went to lbs to have it measured I think we were both embarr"assed" a bit but they had me sit on a piece of foam and measured from there.

Someone here had suggested sitting on a piece of paper on the curb, which I tried, but that didn't work for me.

[RoadRaven]

If your butt is too padded (as mine seemed to be...) then sit on the floor or other hard surface and rock back/forward a little and you should get a sense of where the main pressure from your bones is.

Alternately you can just grab your butt (or get the person who likes to grab your butt to fondle it for you ) and rub/massage gently and you should be able to feel the point of your bones from that...

Remember that your sit bones are part of your pelvis, and as such will be somewhere above the top of your thigh bones... what I'm trying to say is don't look for your sitbones on the widest part of your butt cheeks...

Have fun!!!