Full carbon saddles, anyone riding one?
08-12-09, 07:53 PM
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Full carbon saddles, anyone riding one?
I have always been curious about them and picked up a ControlTech Carbon Comp Saddle on *bay:
Didn't get a long ride in on it tonight (after making dinner, cleaning kids' rooms, mounting saddle, etc., etc.) but after 15 miles I was shocked at how uncomfortable it wasn't!!
Anyone else ride something similar and what do you think about it. I was really overwhelmed at how the total lack of padding felt.
Didn't get a long ride in on it tonight (after making dinner, cleaning kids' rooms, mounting saddle, etc., etc.) but after 15 miles I was shocked at how uncomfortable it wasn't!!
Anyone else ride something similar and what do you think about it. I was really overwhelmed at how the total lack of padding felt.
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I used to have a Tune Concorde.
It was about as comfy my favourite first generation Selle Italia Flites.
A good saddles (for you) is about as hard a thing to find as there is. Your ass might like the Controltech, it might not. If it doesn't, then it's on to something else until you find something your ass likes.
It was about as comfy my favourite first generation Selle Italia Flites.
A good saddles (for you) is about as hard a thing to find as there is. Your ass might like the Controltech, it might not. If it doesn't, then it's on to something else until you find something your ass likes.
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I used to have a Tune Concorde.
It was about as comfy my favourite first generation Selle Italia Flites.
A good saddles (for you) is about as hard a thing to find as there is. Your ass might like the Controltech, it might not. If it doesn't, then it's on to something else until you find something your ass likes.
It was about as comfy my favourite first generation Selle Italia Flites.
A good saddles (for you) is about as hard a thing to find as there is. Your ass might like the Controltech, it might not. If it doesn't, then it's on to something else until you find something your ass likes.
Yeah OP you should find that shape is much more important than padding.
You shold have more than enough padding in your chamois.
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I bought a cheapo Edge all carbon off eBay for my SS 'cause it matched my gold paint & was 120g. Amazingly, I really like mine as well. Now my SS rides are usually 30 mi or less, and I've never had it on a long ride, but it's comfy for these short rides.
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so that means you sold it?
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Carbon SLR. Two of 'em. I would have 'em on all of my bikes except for money.
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I'm running a carbon SLR as well - best saddle I've ever had by far. Took a couple rides to get used to but now there's no way I could switch.
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08-12-09, 09:25 PM
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Yeah, but if you can get past that *some* of them work so well.
I had an Aspide Arrowhead, and something about the shape hit me really, really well. As a matter of fact, if I were just road racing I'd still call it my favorite saddle.
I couldn't TT in it (rotating fully onto the nose made my fussy bits pass out) so I traded it out for an Arione that I could use in more positions - but for a road racing saddle? man, the little-to-no-padding saddles I've used tend to do really well for me.
I had an Aspide Arrowhead, and something about the shape hit me really, really well. As a matter of fact, if I were just road racing I'd still call it my favorite saddle.
I couldn't TT in it (rotating fully onto the nose made my fussy bits pass out) so I traded it out for an Arione that I could use in more positions - but for a road racing saddle? man, the little-to-no-padding saddles I've used tend to do really well for me.
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I have ridden the Carbon Evolution flites to the store in jeans 12m RT. Even without the Shammy it is still comfortable.
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First time I ever saw an all-carbon, sub-100g saddle in the flesh it belonged to a fellow cycle club member. Naturally, the first question everyone asked him was "is it comfortable?" His response was "I can ride on it all day.
...The problem is, I then can't ride the next day!"
...The problem is, I then can't ride the next day!"
11-16-09, 08:43 PM
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I just got a carbon railed saddle - question: how tight do I tighten the bolts? I'm using a thomson seatpost. thanks
11-16-09, 08:50 PM
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Check the specs on that saddle, it might have the torque listed on there. If you don't have a torque wrench then take it to the shop because you don't want to over tighten carbon rails; metal is more forgiving, carbon not so much.
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Don't quote me on this but I'm pretty sure it's 5-7Nm. A lot of the torque specs for different components, talking carbon stuff, (brakes, stem, bars, etc.) are around 5Nm.
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Relax, if it hasn't cracked already, you're probably good to go. Those rails are what, 9.2mm thick (I'm just guessing 9.2mm on your saddle)?
As long as you aren't totally torquing the bolt, you are probably somewhere in the vicinity of 5-7Nm already.
As long as you aren't totally torquing the bolt, you are probably somewhere in the vicinity of 5-7Nm already.
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