Another saddle-suggestion thread.

[Owlie]

Took it out again today. I'm pretty sure it's the saddle change that's making my knee unhappy, so I'm going to have to go play with it again. Much less butt soreness than after mile 15 on Friday. My wrists and arms are much happier this time. I'm still finding myself shifting around a bit to give my sit bones a break. This thing is quite hard compared to the SI.

I'm still not sure how well the 143 works for me width-wise. I'm only getting soreness in my left sitbone, which is kind of odd, but I know I sat on the SI weirdly (even DBF pointed it out). I'm going to give it another couple test rides and see how well my sitbone copes.

[ny biker]

Make sure the saddle is pointing straight ahead. I had problems with pain on the right side only, and when I asked the my LBS fit guy about it he said it's usually caused by a saddle that is crooked. Sure enough, it was slightly off center.

[Owlie]

It looked straight when I put it on, but I'll double-check that, since I have to tweak stuff anyway. Part of me thinks that it's just because I sat so weirdly with my old saddle. Since most of my power seems to come from my right leg (hence the knee pain, I'll bet!), I think I was shifting far to the right on the saddle to spare my right leg the rather unpleasant chafing, so I either wasn't sitting on my left sitbone much, or I was sitting somewhere odd so it didn't get a lot of pressure put on it.
I'll make sure I check if it's on straight. I know I had a bit of a problem in that particular regard with the old saddle, mostly after the LBS I took it to fiddled with my seatpost...

Out of curiosity: How the heck does one put on/take off/adjust a saddle with no cut-out? Any adjustments I've made I've done through the cutout. DBF took off the one that came on my Giant, before I had any clue how to do anything remotely mechanical with my bike.