Smoking a cigar while or during a riding? OK then, next!
Seat fitting is a literal pain to find the best seat. You start though by measuring your sit bones from point to point, you can do that by either having someone help you, perhaps a member of the opposite sex because it could turn into a bit of fun...! anywho, or get a piece of thick styrofoam and sit on allowing it to crush a bit so you can see the indentations of where the sit bones are and measure the distance of the indentations.
Next take those measurements to a store and try to find a seat that will put your sit bones in the center of the left and right pads of the seat. If the sit bones measurements are too wide and begin to lie on the pad area that slopes off your ashe will start to hurt on long rides. Some guys have wider sit bones then others and actually feel better on female designed seats, thus measuring is important. Then even after doing all of that there's only a little guarantee that it will find you the best seat on the first try! Thus it's important to find a store that will let you use the seat for a week and if you don't like it exchange it for another.
This is why all leather seats like Brooks work so well for most people (most, not all), because the seat will break into exactly where your sit bones are rather then hunting all over for a seat to work. I have a couple of Brooks seats, a B17 and a Swift (both with TI rails) that are superb seats. Fortunaltely I bought the Swift before the prices went skyrocketing over the last couple of years, but it's a great racing saddle, howbeit heavier then a true racing saddle, but a lot more comfortable then any seat on my other road bikes, except for the B17 thats on the tourer of course.
(hope I didn't just jinx myself)
