OK Raven, we're about to take the Selle SMP plunge here. Received in for testing are both the Strike PRO & the Stratos models. I did not order up the TRK Lady model you're interested in, I feel it is way too wide for me. I have skinny boy hips & narrow sit bones, so I ordered accordingly. The PRO is the most padded of the men's saddles, & the Stratos has a little more padding than the skinniest of the men's saddles. My husband is having saddle issues, too, so we are both experimenting & swapping saddles back & forth. Which means that two of us will end up with sore behinds & go limping in to work over the next week or so.

I was first with the PRO. We set it up dead-level, and learned afterwards that can be a terrible mistake with the SMP saddles. The cutout is superb, the entire front area disappears. However, it thrust all the body weight on the two tiny little sit bones, and was excruciatingly painful. I gutted out an hour on the trainer, & ground down a lot of teeth in the process. Next day we tilted the nose up just a bit. That helped a lot, it spread out the weight some onto the glutes by supporting the back end of the butt. Still, it is not the right saddle for me, as it is too wide & I get whacked in the back in the crease area.

So the PRO moved onto my husband's bike, and tomorrow I get to debut the Stratos. We'll see how that goes....

Stay tuned...