need advice?

[OakLeaf]

I do know that when I was riding wider saddles, I had a lot more trouble with my "girly bits" being squished, in addition to the chafing. Total misery. Should I even be considering a narrower saddle (130mm??)? Are my 117.5mm sitbones too wide?

What wider saddles did you try? I need a very T-shaped saddle, so what happens to me on a pear-shaped one is that I can't pedal while sitting on the butt part of the saddle. No matter how wide the butt part is, effectively I'm sitting on a very narrow saddle, because the pedaling motion of my legs forces me forward onto the nose, and that's why my Kaiser roll gets chafed on saddles like the Terry Liberator I had before the Lithia.

If the parts between the sitbones are getting chafed, it's usually one of three things: the saddle is too narrow (absolutely or effectively); the nose is tilted up too much; or the cutout is wrong for you.

I'd think you would definitely want to try a 130 as well as a 143; either one could possibly fit you. But I have to ask how you got a sitbone width to a half a millimeter... I don't know that that's possible without an X-ray!



ETA: as far as measurements, not sure how helpful this is, but on my 155 mm Jett, measuring from one silver stripe to the other on the widest part of the saddle - which is pretty much the seating area - gives me 133 mm.