While at our LBS after hours the other day our shop friend was putting the finishing touches on a new road bike for a customer. This was the saddle he put on it:


My MIL swears by this saddle, but she has a VERY upright custom Seven. I had that saddle on my clunky mountain bike and it was like a torture device. That saddle was part of the reason I was so averse to ever get a road bike.

It's wide, short, squishy, heavy, pear-shaped...the exact opposite of my favorite saddle.

Our LBS owner said that is his most popular women's saddle...really?!