need advice?

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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.

That's exactly what would happen to me! I was also using a Terry and I can't even remember how many before that, since it was over 7 years ago. But I'd never measured my sitbones and just followed the policy that "women need wider saddles" back then. How do you like 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 wondered whether the saddle was too narrow (it's a 143) BUT I definitely feel my sitbones on them and as I'm schooching forward to clear the tissue in front, I'm not even getting the full width. I've been trying to figure out how to describe the area... inside and to the front of the sitbones (as I'm not sitting upright). Since the "sits bones" are the base of the ischial tuberosity, is it spine of the ischium and the fatty tissue around it? (I'm actually attempting to look this up) not that I'm guessing this helps any. I could try tilting it ever so slightly... and it could be the cutout...??????

But it's part of what makes me wary about what width to actually purchase

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!

It said to take the measurement twice and go with the median... I ended up with 1/2 a mm LOL but I guess I could just go with 117 or 118 :)

Thanks for the info on your Jett. Do you like it? It does sound like we had similar issues.

Thanks again