another brooks question: your brooks type and your handlebar height/type

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The cantle plate eats the last cm of the saddle on each side.

You want a Brooks (or any other suspended leather saddle) to be about 2 cm wider than your OUTSIDE measurement. Your bones do not want to be landing on the metal cantle plate.

BleeckerStGirl wrote a great description of how she felt on a B17 vs a B67/68. She was hitting the cantle plate a little on the B17.

Chaffing is all about the transition from sit to nose being too gradual for the particular angle of someone's hip joints. Like Sundial noted, sometimes a wider saddle will also have a wider transition/wider nose. (that wider and more gradual transition is what people are talking about when they mention pear/wedge vs T shaped saddles)