Hi Lattae and ladies,

Forgive my intrusion into your forum as a bike tech (male 140lbs) just discovered your posts.
The problem of sit bone anatomy arises daily for women.

Saddle design has improved over the last 5-10 years but remains a problem for certain bum sizes and body weights due to some manufactures adopting a fit-all policy. Where overall construction for safety standards, is measured for rider weights of around 200-220lbs.

I won’t go into detail regarding the differences of male/female saddle designs, soft tissues and cutouts, but a simple test to identify your sit bone dimensions may help with narrowing down your choice of saddles

If you can find a small hard flat topped table (coffee table works well) at a height, where your legs and feet are normally positioned with the pedals at 3 and 9 o-clock.

Sit on the table until you can only feel your sit bones. Rotate your rear end to get the idea of the area needed to be identified.

Place a sheet of non-glossy A4 paper on the table, followed by two layers of tissue on top. Spray a fine water mist to dampen the tissue paper and place another sheet of A4 on top. Sit down and then rotate slightly. If you draw an approximate circle around the two dampened areas on the A4 sheets this should give you a guide to your sit bone centre lines and pressure areas. You can repeat the same test with body angle positioned for bars, hoods and drops, to give an overall picture of the support required.

Hope this may help