Originally Posted by
kickstart
Some people have made comments because I have a Lepper Primus on my Robin Hood, and a Brooks B135 on my Flying Pigeon, "seat costs more than the bike" ect. but IMO the seat is the most important component, everything else is secondary.
I had to look up both those saddles. I was unfamiliar with both.
The seat isn't as important to me as it is to you, but the fact that it is to you expresses the point well. I'm pretty lucky in that most saddles are OK with me. There are a few that are absolute torture devices for me, so I understand when people tell me that it's important to them. Both Fizik saddles I have tried has been awful, and they were very different from each other. To each his own. The saddle on the Citibike (NYC bike share program) is bad for me, but that's probably because I'm an athletic cyclist and don't ride upright bikes often. I have to scooch all the way back and stay off the nose.