Re: I need a wider saddle

The Viscount is the only saddle she has tried. She went online to find
another saddle, but was unsuccessful. I have always ridden stock
saddles (from my Schwinn Giraffe to my standard Sun to my Sun XL), and
she is the first person that I have come across that required something
different.

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due to the shape and angle of a miyata, since it puts you more on the
back of the saddle, maybe that would be more appropriate?

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Tilting the front of any saddle up will tend to force the pelvis onto
the wider, back part of the saddle. With Viscounts, people have stacked
washers under the front of the mounting plate with some success but
it's not really dramatic enough. Tilt rail adapters have not been
developed for 22.2mm (standard) seatposts as far as I know but that is
what you're really looking for in order to dramatically lift the front
of the saddle. If you devise a clever way to tilt a stock saddle on a
stock seatpost, please post it.

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The Torker DX saddle is fairly wide, slightly more so than a normal KH
seat.

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Perhaps if you could post pictures of the problem, we could consider
solutions?😉

Intuitively, I suspect it is unlikely that the problem is simply the
width of the saddle. It will also be the angle of the saddle, whatever
padding the lady is wearing, and there may also be a psychological
element. When I used to ride with the CTC, we had a lady who rode 100
miles a week on the narrowest saddle in the Brooks range.

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Mikefule said:

When I used to ride with the CTC, we had a lady who rode 100 miles a
week on the narrowest saddle in the Brooks range.

Is there a brooks range in your part of the world, or do you mean the
brooks range in northern Alaska? You had me going there for a moment,
till I remembered where you are located. There is a "Brooks Range" in
Alaska that is quite impressive. It separates the north slope of Alaska
with the rest of the state. It goes from east to west for about 700
miles.

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oldfatboy said:

Is there a brooks range in your part of the world, or do you mean the
brooks range in northern Alaska? You had me going there for a moment,
till I remembered where you are located. There is a "Brooks Range" in
Alaska that is quite impressive. It separates the north slope of Alaska
with the rest of the state. It goes from east to west for about 700
miles.

'Brooks' (http://www.brooksengland.com/brooksengland.html) makes
old-school style leather bicycle saddles. This 'Google Image Search'
(http://tinyurl.com/0) will show you what they look like. Some people
love the Brooks saddle. With use it molds to the shape of the users
rear end and creates what they consider a very comfortable and very
individual saddle. However, when new they are not that comfortable
since it hasn't yet molded to the shape of your butt.

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john_childs said:

'Brooks' (http://www.brooksengland.com/brooksengland.html) makes
old-school style leather bicycle saddles. This 'Google Image Search'
(http://tinyurl.com/0) will show you what they look like. Some people
love the Brooks saddle. With use it molds to the shape of the users
rear end and creates what they consider a very comfortable and very
individual saddle. However, when new they are not that comfortable
since it hasn't yet molded to the shape of your butt.

Thank-you for that info. Obviously, as a novice, I have never heard of
that.
Appreciate it.
Mike

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