Saddle Sore Help!

[Skierchickie]

I was having both problems you described, and have a Vitesse HP now (since about the middle of last summer), and so far it is by far the best. The nose is narrow enough that I have absolutely no chafing where you describe. I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to keep it on my road bike (although I am toying with the idea of the tri version). I was having a lot of soft tissue trouble in the drops and aero bars, and tilted it down in front (which helped some) - but I had a fitting 2 weekends ago, raising the seat and the bars, flattening the saddle, and shortening the stem, and it is much better now. The whole bike is more comfortable now. I was reaching too far.

I thought I would like the cutout, but it didn't help much on the Terry models, and the Serfas Terrazzo on my touring bike is no more comfortable than the Vitesse, even with the cutout. I actually liked the WTB Silverado a lot, but the thigh chafing was a little bit of problem. All the WTB saddles have a channel, rather than a cutout, which I liked a lot. Just enough to ease the pressure.

You may like the Vitesse - like I said, it doesn't "disappear" for me, but it's as close as it comes. And I love the way it looks (after all, isn't the most important thing how fast your bike looks??). Anyway, it's small, light, fast looking, not overly padded, but has padding in the right places. For me, it's just been a matter of getting my bike fitted, and getting the saddle flat. Now that I'm not squirming to keep from sliding forward, everything is better.

I've never tried the An-Atomica - actually, it looks like a torture device to me, but a lot of people like it. Sounds like it's worth a try.

By the way - the Vitesse (and the Terry Xero X) helped me to find those pesky seams in my PI shorts! Not terrible, but I'm aware of them. My Nikes are great (even though the chamois is quite wide), my Descentes are great. I have to break down and try my tri shorts again (last year it didn't go so well )

[smurfalicious]

+1 on the Fizik Vitesse. I had the one with the Ti rails back when I had my MTB. Loved it! It fit my sit bones awesome without being too small and it really let me work my bike into turns and such. It was just wide enough that I could grab the nose between my thighs when standing and if I needed to grunt up a hill I could uh, no delicate way to put this but I climbed with my saddle pretty much in my butt because put my legs in a nice, powerful position. I'm actually shopping for one right now.