Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
Well then you might as well ask what's the best color. Because any saddle recommendation thread gets almost as many different suggestions as it does replies.
So I'm to understand that you've tried Brooks, Selle Anatomica, and Rivet, and couldn't find an acceptable saddle? Might be something wrong with your aft section. Over 15,000 miles on SA over here.
You need to realize that especially the traditional shaped leather saddles aren't really that anatomical. A lot of them either have a pronounced T-shape (which only really generally works for women) or lack support at the sides where the pubic rami would contact the saddle.
So essentially a brooks b-17 for example only works for people who have either very shallow angled pubic rami or people with very narrow sitbones. If you have steep angled pubic rami and have wide sitbones there's no real chance a brooks or any other leather saddle will work properly.
Selle Anatomica are getting there, but they also have a narrow effective width essentially precluding them from everyone with wide sitbones. They're 165mm wide so if you take a sitbone measurement and add 4cm from center to center measurement you get the width you'd need for a suspended leather saddle so that the steel rails will not contact the outsides of your sitbones. So for a selle anatomica the maximum sitbone width center to center would be 125mm. However that's pushing it so honestly a person with 115mm wide sitbones could probably sit on a selle anatomica without issues.
There's nothing wrong in a person if their sitbones are wide. Generally sitbones can go up to 150mm or more.