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The body-saddle interface is gender specific. That is a problem for a lot of potential riders.


The last time I looked into this, specific to road bike saddles, Specialized and a few others had developed whole product lines and various widths of saddle sit-bone positions specific for female hips and anatomy.

But no matter how good a saddle is, for a person just starting with a "real" road bike, who has not been on a bike for many months or years, there's going to be a couple of weeks of discomfort before your posterior anatomy toughens up and you stop feeling some discomfort.

A couple of weeks of riding 20km a day at a very leisurely pace should do it. Once you get past that wall, a properly fit saddle should cause no discomfort at all.


No amount of marketing will change human physiology.


If you're going to spend that much on a bike, then the saddle is really only there for test rides. You'll replace it with your preferred one as soon as you buy it.




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