Selle An-Atomica vs. Brooks

[mimitabby]

This is the first I'd heard there were women-specific saddles. I met the maker of these things and he had a one size fits all attitude. he said something like 85% of his customers liked one size, so that's what he makes.

[elk]

I think they only make them in widths. I wrote them recently.
You can write and tell him what you want and he'll help you.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

The Selle A. do not make any saddles even remotely wide enough for my "Brooks B68-worthy" sitbones.

[KnottedYet]

Ditto. (but put in "Brooks B67 worthy sitbones")

I have luscious hips...

[mimitabby]

i guess what we really need is an official Brooks saddle thread.

There's an article in the Bicycle Quarterly that talks about the kinds of saddles and bikes that people road in the 1200 kilometer Paris Brest Paris ride. Fully 50% of the people that responded had Brooks or the selle an-atomica saddles on their bikes. Further, a majority of the faster and more experienced riders had leather saddles.
And most of the riders rode STEEL BIKES!

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Mimi, were most of the riders French?

[mimitabby]

most of the survey respondents were americans. but i think other than the French, americans were the largest single group.

[SadieKate]

There's an article in the Bicycle Quarterly that talks about the kinds of saddles and bikes that people road in the 1200 kilometer Paris Brest Paris ride. Fully 50% of the people that responded had Brooks or the selle an-atomica saddles on their bikes. Further, a majority of the faster and more experienced riders had leather saddles.
And most of the riders rode STEEL BIKES!

50% used a traditional leather saddle such as a Brooks or SA. I didn't see where it said that the faster or experienced riders used leather saddles either, just that 55% of the 90 hr group used traditional leather and 37% of the faster group did. The charts are confusing but I think I'm reading it right. Matter of fact the article said " no dignificant differences in equipment choices or DNF rates between novice and experienced randonneurs." Users of '"other" saddles, mostly gel, were almost twice as like to DNF. However, few of these riders listed saddle problems as the reason for abandoning the ride."

And the survey was conducted through RUSA bulletin boards so the analysis was of equipment used by RUSA members.

[mimitabby]

Nice Sadie Kate, you missed my point. There's a huge percentage of people on that ride who were riding leather saddles. That's all I was saying. and then you provided the other interesting statistic; the non-leather saddle people were more apt to DNF.

[SadieKate]

Further, a majority of the faster and more experienced riders had leather saddles.
And most of the riders rode STEEL BIKES!

No, truthfully, Mimi, I didn't see this part about the faster and more experienced. Where is it? I sometimes have a hard time following Jan. He needs an editor for himself and some of his contributors. I constantly have to re-read a paragraph trying to piece together the progression of logic.

[kayandallie]

Back to topic: I just tried out my new An-Atomica today and I love it! I had two Brooks; the Team Pro and the Team Pro S and although I liked them, I was never able to get comfy.