Quote Originally Posted by Irulan
Did they measure your sit bones? Your specialized dealer should have a simple device that they use to determine which width of saddle to recommend. It's memeory foam - you sit on it, the width between then indentations from your bones are measured and then a saddle size it determined. The actual size of your butt has nothing to do with the width of the saddle you need.
Actually, that was why I ended up with a specialized saddle, but apparently specialized doesn't offer the butt measurement device anymore. Two local specialized dealers said specialized had them send them back last month. So no butt measurement for me.

I have about 1800 miles on the bike since I got it in March. I've been riding long rides every weekend, and before this my longest ride was 85 miles. However, the saddle is brand new. I realize riding a century on a brand new saddle is somewhat ill advised, but my other one was causing me so much soft tissue pain, I figured it probably wouldn't be any worse.

I'm hoping maybe the chafing problems will decrease as I use the saddle more, but I suspect that I may need the middle size saddle, and the bike store I bought this one from only has a 7 day exchange policy. I'm going to call around to the other local specialized dealers and see if anyone has the 143mm Jett in stock so I can try it out. I also hate to find it somewhere else and return this one to the LBS, because they spent so much time with me test riding and setting my bike up correctly when I bought this saddle. I'm going to call them tomorrow and see if they can order one for me.