Brooks B68 and B68S

[Nokomis]

According to Wallingford's site:
The B68 measures 210mm wide X 260mm long(nose to back).

You're correct - I was going from poor memory. The stamp on the side does say B68. That saddle was quite the conversation piece on the ride.

I rode over 40 miles on it, and it felt like I was trying to balance on a pair of baseballs - easily slipping off, perching on a very hard and curved surface. If those are my sit bones, they are hitting on the outside edge where I drew the line, and it's quite hard & sore. Sitting now is a new & different kind of sore - though I am glad not to have the A bone pressure bruise! I did have the numb second toe, and spent plenty of time climbing rolling hills out of the saddle. There isn't any way I can think of to adjust the saddle so I'm hitting it differently - I tried plenty of position changes, pelvic tilts etc. to try to find a less painful spot.

Post ride I was joking that it's time to go in for reconstructive butt surgery. Bleh!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

If it helps to know- When I got my B17, I had never tried a Brooks before. My sitbones were VERY sore the first week or two I started using a Brooks saddle. Nothing else hurt, just my sitbones. I kept applying Proofhide from Brooks, top and bottom, about 6 times during that first month. My DH said the soreness was to be expected and would fade away, so I trusted him and kept riding. After 2 weeks of riding the soreness faded away. I think my bones just got used to it, because the saddle certainly wasn't broken in yet. (it was my BUTT that got broken in!)
Anyway, by the end of the first month I was as comfy as could be and by the second month I saw the saddle was beginning to form to my sitbones, with little dents there.
Then I got a new B68 (wider than my original B17), and though I anticipated a week of soreness with the brand new saddle, I only had one day of sitbone soreness and a few days later did a 70 mile ride on it with no problems (just allover tired!). It is still not broken in yet but apparently my bum was used to the Brooks "way of life" and did not mind the brand new Brooks at all. It's really comfy for me.
But I remember well that very first sore week!

[Nokomis]

If it helps to know- When I got my B17, I had never tried a Brooks before. My sitbones were VERY sore the first week or two I started using a Brooks saddle.

How close to the outside edge of the saddle are you? I'm afraid that because I'm over the cantle it won't be able to break in

[KnottedYet]

I'm lost.

How does a set of 150mm sit bones not fit on a 210mm saddle?

My 180mm sit bones have a good couple of cms from each edge (measuring the dents I've put in my B67)

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

How close to the outside edge of the saddle are you? I'm afraid that because I'm over the cantle it won't be able to break in

My behind extends beyond the saddle edges all around except at the nose. My sitbones are about 1 1/4' to 1 1/2" from the outermost side edges of the saddle.

First- are you absolutely sure you have the B68 and not the B17??
Second- Are your sitbones actually sitting on the edges, or is it just an illusion because it feels so hard? Sometimes just because our fatty parts extend over the saddle on sides and back, we might "think" our sitbones are right on the edges, but they really are an inch or two in from the edges. Sit on the saddle and put your fingers right under your sitbones, then try to get up without moving your fingers and see where they are on the saddle top. If this is too hard try just marking with one finger at a time.

My hips are 42" around. I'm pear shaped and I've got "child-bearing hips" like Knot has too. Not "fat", but quite wide. I realize that's not an accurate sitbone measurement, but it gives you an idea of my size. The B17 fit me pretty well and was comfy, but I knew that my sit bones on it were almost at the edges side to side. I changed to the B68 which is quite a bit wider and fits me better. Now i do have room for my sitbones to not sit on the frame edge of the saddle. It's a pretty wide saddle.

I guess we're all just trying to figure out your problem considering you are not used to a Brooks type saddle....

[Nokomis]

It took a while to figure out how to share the detail - it is absolutely the B68.

Process: I set a piece of paper on my office chair, sat for a good long while & built up sit bone impressions. X marks the spot - also circled where the sit bone area left a nice round indent.

The first picture should show the overlay when I compare that to the brooks, and to my other too-narrow saddle, where I'm supported by the A bones, not B.

On the brooks, the center of the sit bones are one fingernail width in from the furthest outside rivet. Is this enough? I tried to draw lines to intersect where the center of the sit bone would hit in the smaller brooks image. Moving front to back on that saddle would e limited to the green line which I measure out to 2" in total -but most of it is hard from the curl of the leather or the pomel underneith.

[mimitabby]

I know you're not going to like this; but that's about where my sit bones are too.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

That's not far off from mine either. On my B17 my sit bones were even closer to the edges- that's why I got the B68. Even so, the B17 was comfortable after the first couple of weeks of heavy riding.
Now on my B68 my sit bones are like where yours are. I think yours will be ok after the saddle -and your behind- are both "broken in".
Have you proof-hide-ed the saddle much yet? That really helps it soften and form to you. Proof hide several times, on both sides (top and underneath).