measuring your sit bones

[Chicken Little]

I think you need a CT scan to do this right. I tried all of the suggestions mentioned above, and came up with this obscure measurement that matched a giraffe pelvis in the third trimester.

Maybe the bike shop is the best source.

[Catrin]

Not all bike shops have the memory foam, or agree with it...

[PamNY]

Not all bike shops have the memory foam, or agree with it...

Don't agree with it -- meaning they don't think it gives an accurate or usable measurement?

I had great results with the yoga mat method, but that could just be luck.

[KnottedYet]

I think you need a CT scan to do this right. I tried all of the suggestions mentioned above, and came up with this obscure measurement that matched a giraffe pelvis in the third trimester.

If you got the same measurement again and again with all the suggested methods, maybe you just have sitbones that match a giraffe pelvis in the third trimester?

(mine are 170-190mm, and my hips themselves are not very wide. Sit bone width and hip width don't have much to do with each other)

[DebbieOSablada]

ahhhh.. i wonder if painting my butt lightly with my daughter's washable paints, and then sitting on paper (a la stamping) will work...

[lph]

(mine are 170-190mm, and my hips themselves are not very wide. Sit bone width and hip width don't have much to do with each other)

Just wanted to ditto this - there really is very little correlation. I have narrow hips but quite wide sitbones. Yesterday I saw a rare pic of me biking taken from behind and it was actually visible, both the wide "seating" and the thigh bone that seemingly goes straight down.

[malkin]

Me too with the wide sit/narrow hip.
In fact, it feels like the distance between my sit bones is wider than the distance from either one of them to the outside world on the side.