Quote Originally Posted by zoom-zoom View Post
. It stinks, because the rest of me is perfectly happy riding in a relatively aero position (no neck, back, shoulder, hand pain), but the labial/clitoral irritation is becoming a total deal breaker.

I'd try a noseless saddle, but I know that I use my thighs a lot to stabilize and steer my bike.
I'm here to save you the trouble. As you know, our LB anatomy is very similar. The #1 reason I sold my tri bike? Soft tissue pain. I could NOT find a saddle that would work and frankly, it got to the point that I stopped wanting to try, so I gave up. I did try three noseless saddles and all three of them (two Adamo versions and one Cobb) were too wide in between my legs even though they had no true nose. The rubbing on my leg crease was worse than the soft-tissue pain on my InForm saddle! For whatever reason, I can ride in the drops on my road bike in comfort for MUCH longer than I could ride on the aerobars of my tri bike even though the position is about the same. The need to rotate my hips forward so much on the tri bike due to the geometry, made it just dreadful. I explained my pain and my worry about it to my fitter even before I'd bought the bike but he was convinced that we'd find a saddle that would work and that I shouldn't worry about it.

Don't get me wrong, my fitter was great. And he was understanding. But when every single saddle he had in his shop caused pain, I think he was getting frustrated. I even brought in my own to try and they didn't work either. I picked the InForm for the fitting because it was the most bearable...but who wants to ride that? I started to think that he was beginning to think I was making it up or exaggerating even though he never came out and said it.

Luckily, the InForm turned out to be perfect on my road bike so it was worth the effort to at least have found that!