Saddle question

[Orange utopia]

I have tried the Bontrager of course and the WTB SST that was on my old mountain bike. The Butterfly is on my road bike but I haven't tried it on the Utopia yet. The WTB SST was ok but I know from before that I'd wasn't comfortable for longer rides.

My plan right now is to try and get a WSD Bontrager evoke as an exchange for the men's model that came on the bike and either use that or the other WTB (speedV) for this weekend's ride. I was going to take my road bike on Sunday for about 25 miles but I want to try to nail down this saddle issue on the utopia so I think i am going to take it instead.

I should have tried all of the saddles we already have around here before buying the Terry butterfly. now I don't want to return it until I know for sure I am not going to use it because my DH got a deal on it but I don't want to keep it just because it was a deal. So I need to figure out if it is something I am going to use or not. I don't plan to buy another saddle until I have tried all of the ones I already have.

[Biciclista]

so what makes you want to try a Bontrager?

[Orange utopia]

so what makes you want to try a Bontrager?

I don't know that I do, I just know my LBS will switch out the one that came with the bike for a WSD so I might as well give it a whirl. They are a trek only dealer and only have Bontrager products, otherwise I would ask them to direct me to a different choice.

[Biciclista]

seriously!! I had no idea that bike shops exist that ONLY sell Bontrager saddles... YIKES

I don't know if this will help or not, but every bike we've ever purchased (not counting custom ones) came with a saddle
that we ended up discarding. And they were not all Bontragers, but some were.

[Orange utopia]

NY biker, I am not sure if it was normal, new rider pain or not. It didn't hurt the soft tissue. There was maybe a little bit of tenderness there immediately following the longer ride but nothing that lasted. I had some slight chaffing on my right inner thigh but I think that was more due to the baggy style mountianbike shorts I was wearing. I didn't experience that on other shorter rides wearing the longer spandex shorts so I wasn't concerned with that. It just hurt for about a week after that longer ride to sit on the
saddle at all and it felt like the bones were bruised, not the tissue.

I switched to my old WTB SST and that was better but I haven't done anything more then 5 or 6 miles on that one and I know it isn't a good option for longer rides which I would like to do on this new bike. And really, the Bontrager Evoke 1 was ok (not great but ok) for those kinds of distances before I did the longer ride so I didn't really get much by making that switch.