Pinchy Bits

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I test rode a Specialized saddle in a 143 and it worked great, so I would guess you'd need the 140 in the Bontrager as well. I don't know how much padding a Jett has, but the InForm RL doesn't have much. The photo is deceiving as it looks all puffy in the back, but it's not at all. It's more padding than a Brooks, but less than a Terry Butterfly. Does that help?

Very much! That's about how I would describe my Jett, too.

Tomorrow DH and I are going to go ride for 2 hours, or so...gonna see if tilting the nose of my Jett down a hair helps. If not, I'll be ordering an InForm RL to see how it compares. In theory it looks like it would be a better solution for riding in the drops.

My only concern is that it looks a hair more "pear-shaped" than the t-shape footprint of my Jett. I had a SI Lady Gel Flow (same as the Butterfly) at one point and that caused all sorts of chafing where my butt meets my inner thigh. Part of that could have been that it was just too wide, too.

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Very much! That's about how I would describe my Jett, too.

Tomorrow DH and I are going to go ride for 2 hours, or so...gonna see if tilting the nose of my Jett down a hair helps. If not, I'll be ordering an InForm RL to see how it compares. In theory it looks like it would be a better solution for riding in the drops.

My only concern is that it looks a hair more "pear-shaped" than the t-shape footprint of my Jett. I had a SI Lady Gel Flow (same as the Butterfly) at one point and that caused all sorts of chafing where my butt meets my inner thigh. Part of that could have been that it was just too wide, too.

I had the same problem with the Butterfly. That's why I switched to the Fly (narrower). It still gave me some issues up front, but I learned to deal with it with enough lube. Over time, the padding got to be too much for me which is why I was so happy to find the inForm.

I really hope it works as well for you! It's SO perfect for me that I've actually ridden my coached cycling class (I take my saddle to my class!) without a chamois at all. Even though class is only an hour, there is no way in a trillion-billion years I could have done that on the Fly.

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Interesting...it's hard to tell from the photo, but it looks pretty narrow in the rear. I wonder if that cut-out would be better or worse than the Jett. It looks like it goes further forward, but it also looks narrower...which makes me sorta cringe, just thinking about it.

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Ok, found a site that said it's 135...which would probably be a hair narrow when I'm on the hoods. Hmmm...something to add to the list of possibilities, though.

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Just trying to make it more difficult

Ha, I did that to myself when I got a new bike!

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But it's such a pretty bike!

Orange Rules!

Yep!