Terry Saddles- Performance, Endurance, Sport

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Your measurements tell you where to start in your saddle search.

The saddle has "cheeks" on the wide back part. Sometimes the cheeks are even domed up a bit. Your sitbone is meant to land in the high part of that dome to take advantage of the padding and the overall architecture of the saddle.

Measure the saddle from center of cheek to center of cheek. The saddle's center-to-center should match yours.

Next measure the saddle's overall width. Generally the saddle's overall width should be pretty much the same as your outside measurement, if not slightly wider. You want to be able to shift around to power up hills or use body-english around corners or just to give your butt a break, and STILL have the bones land on the saddle. (you sit ON a saddle, you do not INSERT it)

In the case of a suspended leather saddle (which you are not looking at yet) your saddle must be about 2 cm wider than your outside measurement so you do not have bones contacting the metal cantle plate.