berlinonaut
Veteran
- Location
- Berlin Germany
On that record she does have a really strong opinion , personally I am not so sure or radical - I think it is fair to have a different one if one likes SQ-lab saddles. I do not own one and never did, so - a rare happening - I do not have an opinion of my own here. What I would agree with is that using only the sit bone distance to recommend a saddle like SQLab does it clearly not a good or sufficient way. It may work to a degree but clearly not always or optimal. And as they built their whole system on that Juliane does not like them too much. The more as she had people visiting her, suffering heavily with their SQLab and no longer with the saddle she recommended to them. Juliane does indiviual pressure messurements with various saddles - obviously time consuming and not a fast, cheap and scalable business model for the mass market like the SQLab way of working. But a pretty perfect outcome. Interestingly for my butt it turned out that the Selle Anatomica and the Terry Arteria GT turned out to be pretty identical in terms of pressure distribution and behavior - both were equally good, despite being totally different constructions and looking totally different. A lot of others were quickly ruled out because of the inacceptable fit.(like she doesn't like SQLabs saddles
It really depends. There is what fits most people and there are the exceptions like here in the middle of the page: https://junik-hpv.de/arbeitsbereiche/ergonomie-und-spezialanfertigung/ (there's an example of a pressure measurement, too).I think from memory that she recommends no more than 10cm higher for your bars compared to your saddle height