Originally Posted by
Erzulis Boat
Things change. When I was younger, I could ride just about anything, and always went for a "racy" saddle.
Nowadays, at 50+, I am much more picky on the shape. The Selle Italia Flite of yesteryear is now not "flat" enough, and is akin to sitting on a canoe paddle edge up!
Anyway, you can find plenty of racy saddles that will work.
lol - used a Flite on all my bikes back in the day - off road and road
did a number of centuries (metric and regular) - and to the surprise and dismay of some (lol) never had an issue ... never had a sore rear or numbness or any other issues
(and that was on aluminum, steel, and carbon bikes fitted with 20 and 23 mm tires pumped 100+ psi)