What seats are everyone using?

bfra1

I'm looking to replace my road bike seat and am wondering what will be more comfortable that my current brick.
I'd love to know what seats are popular with the road riders.

hippy

"bfra1" <bfra1.19ol70@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote in message
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> I'm looking to replace my road bike seat and am wondering what will be
> more comfortable that my current brick.
> I'd love to know what seats are popular with the road riders.

Selle Italia Gel Flite on mine.

I want to try some others out though.
The Fizik Arione sounds interesting and
I want to try one of the saddles with the
groove cut out of the middle..

hippy

ritcho

San Marco Era Pro - about $167 at Cecil Walker. It's not the lightest, heaviest, cheapest, dearest, hardest or softest, which makes it a reasonable compromise.

I can't speak for its popularity, but comfort-wise, it is _not_ as comfortable as my armchair recliner.

Ritch

Suzy Jackson

hippy wrote:

> Selle Italia Gel Flite on mine.

Flite Titanium (titanium rails) on the fixed gear, basic Flite (tubular
CrMo rails) on the roadie.

I reckon the Flite Evolution 3 (carbon top, titanium rails) is the ducks
guts. only wusses sit on the seat, anyway!

Cheers,

Suzy (back to a real news-reader, at last)

BG

mine is an oldy off a track bike
Black plastic , made in italy.......
Im so use to it now i cant ride anything else....& its light to.....
My son took my original one , a velo as he refused to use the plastic one
that came with his Swannee track bike so to prove its as good as any i used
it ...got used to it after a while......I will get the brand tonight not
that anybody is going to rush out & find one


B

NickZX6R

bfra1 wrote:
> I'm looking to replace my road bike seat and am wondering what will be
> more comfortable that my current brick.
> I'd love to know what seats are popular with the road riders.
>
>

Fizik Arione and a Selle San Marco Squadra.

(and a WTB Rocket V on the mtb, which I reckon would also be good on a
roadie)

--
Nick

Richard Sherratt

On Tue, 20 Jul 2004 17:06:38 +1000, bfra1
<bfra1.19ol70@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote:

>
>I'm looking to replace my road bike seat and am wondering what will be
>more comfortable that my current brick.
>I'd love to know what seats are popular with the road riders.

Selle Italia Trans Am Max. A bit wider than the Flight. Just right for
those of us who are not built like Lance :-)

Stay away from gel anything. The gel transfers the pressure from where
it should be to the squishy bits. Not good for your sex life.

--
Regards.
Richard.

flyingdutch

Selle San Marco rolls 2 Saddle

keep going back to it but am due to try something new

was eyeing off Geoff's saddle, selle sleek, light looking thing
altho maybe a carbon seatpost might give me mre benefit as my bum likes my saddle...

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'ungrounded' Dutch...

GDS

I can only see the Re: and not the original thread so I'll reply here...Rolls (san marco) and it's neigh on 8yrs
old...it's rooted! I need a new saddle! I'd buy a new Rolls if I could find one, I just haven't looked. I'm a cheap lazy
bastard...if it works, don't fix it...lol. Gawd I'm cheap. My sore arse Vs $X0...idiot that I am.

G.

tonykara

ive got selle italia flight transam (titanium rails) not the cushiest saddle but seems to fit me fine.
Dutch.....did you say that you were looking at Geoff's saddle? thats sick. kids look away...wierdo online

Fusioned

The stock FUJI seat thats like....an inch thick tops.

hippy

"Richard Sherratt" <richard.sherratt@NOTHINGHEREbrunsley.com.au> wrote in
message
> Selle Italia Trans Am Max. A bit wider than the Flight. Just right for
> those of us who are not built like Lance :-)
>
> Stay away from gel anything. The gel transfers the pressure from where
> it should be to the squishy bits. Not good for your sex life.

The Flite's gel pads are very thin and positioned
where the sit bones contact the saddle. They're
not like those bean-bag style exercise-bike
saddles..

hippy

hippy

"tonykara" <tonykara.19oyma@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com
> flyingdutch Wrote:
> > was eyeing off Geoff's saddle, selle sleek, light looking thing
> > altho maybe a carbon seatpost might give me mre benefit as my bum likes
> > my saddle...
>
> ive got selle italia flight transam (titanium rails) not the cushiest
> saddle but seems to fit me fine.

One of those might be an alternative for my.. uh.. sprinter's
butt :-) They're wider than standard Flite, yeah?

> Dutch.....did you say that you were looking at Geoff's saddle? thats
> sick. kids look away...wierdo online

I let that one slide.. I'm a nice guy ;-)

hippy

adam

"hippy" <sbirnie@NOSPAMbigpond.com> wrote in message
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> "tonykara" <tonykara.19oyma@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com
> > flyingdutch Wrote:
> > > was eyeing off Geoff's saddle, selle sleek, light looking thing
> > > altho maybe a carbon seatpost might give me mre benefit as my bum
likes
> > > my saddle...
> >
> > ive got selle italia flight transam (titanium rails) not the cushiest
> > saddle but seems to fit me fine.
>
> One of those might be an alternative for my.. uh.. sprinter's
> butt :-) They're wider than standard Flite, yeah?
>
> hippy

I bought one but it doesn't fit me. It's not too bad, I tried it for a week,
moved it around to try and find the sweet spot but after about 80km I just
couldn't stay comfortable. The cutout seems to work though. Also got a older
Trimatic that's even worse that I call the "ass-hatchet" Gone back to the
el-cheapo specialized till I find something better. I've read all the theory
but I just seem to need a bit more padding under the sit bones.

If anyone is interested in either (try them out if you're in brisbane) let
me know. I was thinking of trying a san marco rolls.

Adam