Quote Originally Posted by Muirenn View Post
If I need 180 I'm going to assume 177 would be painful due to the plate and 210 just too wide.
Listen to Knotted. Never too wide.

That said, you questioned the cutout. When I finnaly broke down and bought the B68, I was hoping the lack of cutout wouldn't be a problem (I had been riding an SMP that was a skosh too narrow but had that awesome cutout). Nope.

At the time, there was no Imperial. I sent my brand new B68 to Selle Anatomica and had the leather reinforced and a slot cut into it. Bummer. It pinched.

Then I got out the drill and put holes in the sides and laced it up tight. Better. A little sand paper to fine tune the slot and I've got almost the perfect saddle.

When I first put the saddle on the bike, I got a lot of snickers about putting a cruiser saddle on my go-fast road bike. Now that it is broken in and the sit area is dented, the snickerers are silenced. Some of us do need that width (and given how many live on this board, I sometimes question those oft-quoted percentile numbers....but maybe I just don't like to be unusual). But I digress.

As to the OP....yeah, sometimes TE-ers can get a little over the top. But, with a few rare exceptions, they mean well.