often you see those saddles on folks' bikes that either due to lack of flexibility or bike fit they can't roll their hips back and get up on the sit bones
i would also like to point out no pro tour riders ride them.
perhaps most importantly they look silly and do not come in matchy-match colors
A couple of things:
First: Mr. Murray is wrong in assuming that "if these things worked, people would buy them." Marketing works and people buy saddles that are shaped like pointy little arrowheads and that look "fast."
Second: those split, noseless saddles DO work. For some people and for some riding styles. But no one saddle, no matter how adjustable, is the best solution for everybody.
Third: Most folks are riding on saddles that are TOO narrow for them. (Because they look fast, and they don't want to admit that they might have a wide pelvis, as if that's a bad thing.) On a whim I gave the Bontrager InForm fit system a try, and discovered that I needed their widest saddle! 156mm. However, that saddle is the most comfortable "conventional" saddle I've ever ridden. No numbness of my genitals.
Brian
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