I break saddles. I’ve always tended to break them.
I’ve tried quite a few, with some lasting more than others, but they all bend at the rails pretty quickly.

Specialized
WTB
Selle Italia
DMR
…. and more

Mostly bend after my arse hits them when landing from a jump, or some unexpected trail obstacle causes my posterior to thump the back of the saddle.

Tell me about a saddle that has rails to withstand some abuse. Don’t worry about lightness too much, just durability.

Are your saddles generally clamped fore or aft or central? ie where along the rails is the clamp?

+1 on tell us more about what clamp/seatpost and where it’s mounted fore and aft.

Might be more technique than strength of the saddles, I have never broken a saddle despite being on the chunky side.

Reverb post, and I do run the saddle back on the rails generally.

I appreciate that this is a contributing factor, but was keen to find recommendations on saddles at the stronger end that could cope with being used like this.

If you’re already using chromoly rails then rail-strength between saddle brands/types is likely to be much of a muchness

Obviously having the saddle positioned back is a major factor (along with technique?) so that leaves a few options AFAICS

Switch for a layback dropper?

Dropper post with a layback?

Change technique?

Change saddle-position to centre-or-forward-of-clamp via changing bike frame (?!)

Keep on scanning saddle reviews and trying saddles that review well on strength? eg:
https://mountainculturegroup.com/honest-review-chromag-trailmaster-dt-saddle/

I’m a big lard and have bent ti rails but currently Phenom comp is doing the job on all fronts. Academic really tho as I’m 95% wheels on ground rarely touch the seat on any landings #bimbledays #airwhatair

Thanks for the responses. Yep, it’s a recommendation for a stronger saddle I was after. However, as I suspected, there’s not much to choose between them.

I’m replacing the reverb soon, so a dropper with layback was my next option.

New frame is a bit hard to sort ATM tho’.

Hi bent a few saddles.

My brooks b17 is over 20 years old and the rails are still fine.

@tall_martin

Good call…. only downside is never having used/sat on a Brookes, I’m not sure how it would feel off-road. They’re quite a different beast to most regular saddles.

Might try and source a second hand one first to try one out.

Its not a cheap experiment intialy, but they hold their value