measuring sit bones

[KnottedYet]

The new saddles I was talkin' to the dude in SF about are meant to weightbear on the area where the "c" is on the wiki picture. When I told the head of our pelvic rehab program about the new saddles, her outraged reaction was pretty classic.

Beane - have you tried one of the really wide and sprung unpadded saddles like the Brooks, or maybe the Selle An-Atomica? Kinda seems like the less mechanical shock you can get into the pelvis, and the more you can weightbear back onto the actual tuberosity, the more stable you'll be. I'm trying to think of ways to compress the area of the missing bone as opposed to forcing it open more (wb on the corner of the triangle rather than on the middle of one of the legs of the triangle. your available wbing corners are the ischial tuberosity and the pubic symphisis. i'd be inclined to try the ischial tub first, but you might consider up near the symphisis) You might also consider trying the new Trek women's saddles when they come out. If you can get one that actually lets you weighbear along the entire length of the inferior ramus, it might be even more stable than anything else. (maybe try a couple sizes and see which works best)

VG - oh, yeah, I think there's a relationship between poor saddle fit and later pelvic issues. The problem from an industry standpoint (as far as I'm concerned) is that once these cyclists are so damaged that they can no longer ride, they fall off the radar of the bike companies. So, no-one is designing the saddle that would have kept my otherwise very healthy 65 year old patient riding. She's old, she's only a woman, she doesn't ride; so she doesn't count in the industry bean-counter's eyes. But a more pear-shaped or more T-shaped or wider cantle or narrower nose or SOMETHING might have kept her from injury and she'd still be riding now.
(and she wouldn't be spending so much quality time with me talking about pee and poop and adult diapers and numbness) (or if she had to anyway because of genetics or posture habits or having birthed 4 kids, she'd at least have a saddle that let her ride despite her pelvic difficulties)