Where is the ideal / designed location for my sit bones to push on a leather sling/hammock style saddle? (Relative positioning, that works for any saddle width)
While I'm riding on my leather saddle, I notice that my sit bones seem to press the saddle very close to the rear metal part of the saddle (i.e. near the rivets). This metal bar with the rivets is U-shaped, with the tails curving forwards at each side. Are my sit bones supposed to fit within the curve? In front of it?
Referring to the grid below, my intuition is that I should get a wider saddle with a wider metal U such that my sit bones are in the relative locations of: center-of (C-D,2-3) and center-of (C-D,4-5). Am I correct that the U should "cradle" my sit bones?
(Also, I notice most leather saddles use 6 rivets in the rear, so we can refer to them as rivet #1 through #6.)