Luv my Selle An-Atomica

[nuthatch]

Hey, TexasPam, I'm needing some info as I try to pick out a new saddle. Can you tell me what Brooks you were riding, how you modified it, etc., and why the Selle was better for you?

I'm currently riding a Brooks Team Pro S on my long distance bike and, after a year of breaking in, I've got to admit that it's just too short for me. No room at all to move around, my sit bones are perched on the outside rivets, I'm either sliding off the nose or impaled on the middle section, depending on the tilt of the nose. Just can't get it right.

I thought about switching to a B67 to get some more width and wiggle room but then I found out about the Selle.

So I'm thinking about the Selle but I'm scared of that cut-out. Doesn't that edge hurt? Do your girly parts fall through the hole and, well...get squeezed? Any info would be most helpful.

[SadieKate]

NutHatch, I have one and the cut out is absolutely unnoticeable (though the longest rides has only been 24 miles). There are a couple of people over on the bikejournal forum that swear by the saddle, one calling it her Magic Red Saddle. Mimi's husband, Raleighdon, is another who just rode a 200k on it.

You can find out lots more info here. The saddle needs no break in (though you'll adjust the leather tnesion over time) and has 10 cm rails providing much more fore/aft adjustability in addition to its longer length, which is much longer than the most common Brooks that I see and I, too, like long saddles. When you read the measurements, note that the width is really the distance from the idents put in the top of the saddle for your sit bones.

BTW, Pam, the company is out of Fairfield, CA. The saddles are just made in Wisconsin.

http://www.selleanatomica.com/

[mimitabby]

It is not as wide as the B67 saddle for sure, so if you have wide hipbones i'm not sure it would work.
When Raleighdon gets his new bike, I might borrow one of these saddles just to see...because then he'll own two.

[SadieKate]

Hey, Mimi, how do you sit on your hip bones? You using the Superman position these days for speed?

It's really the width of your ischial tuberosities that matter. I like wide flat saddles with long narrow noses. The Selle has those.

Beware that the thing is a boat anchor at 470 gms.

[mimitabby]

not sure what you mean, Sadie, the ischial tuberosities, i guess i am sitting on,
like i did when i was riding horses.

and For everyone's information, Selle just means Saddles in Italian~
sella is singular.

[nuthatch]

I was wondering why so many companies called themselves "Selle"!

Thanks for the info. This saddle definitely sounds like it would be an improvement for me - my ischial tuberosities AND my pubic symphysis, which shouldn't be bearing weight but is right now on my Brooks (that white paper at their website was quite an education!).

[mimitabby]

(that white paper at their website was quite an education!).

what white paper?

[SadieKate]

. . . so if you have wide hipbones i'm not sure it would work.

I think of my hip bones as those wanna-be protrusions just below my waist on the front of me and to the side, as in 'Simon says, "place your hands on your hips." I rarely sit on on them nor the hip socket portion of the pelvis.

[mimitabby]

I think of my hip bones as those wanna-be protrusions just below my waist on the front of me and to the side, as in 'Simon says, "place your hands on your hips." I rarely sit on on them nor the hip socket portion of the pelvis.

SIT BONES!! DUH!! sorry. I meant sitting bones, ischial tuberosities, not the hip handle bones up there!!

[beth63111]

That movie is explicitly illustrative! LOL

[Andrea]

I emailed the selle an-atomica people about which one I should try out. I'm on saddle #5 right now since I got my bike back in July, and I'm still having issues with groin cysts and other miscomforts