My main weekend roadbike has a vintage Selle Italia Flite Ti saddle. Normally feels fine, but on a century ride this summer, by 80 miles it hurt. A lot.
The LBS looked at the wear marks on my commuter roadbike saddle, which is an old school Selle Italia Turbo. That saddle is comfortable for 100 mile rides. They said the marks show I need a saddle wider than the Flite.
So, in the last week, I've picked up three saddles to try. A Fizik Arione ($30 lightly used), a Fizik Anatares (rather beat up, traded for it), a Selle Italia SLR Flow (a big cut out and Ti rails, $20 brand new).
Woo hoo! I intend to spend the coming weeks taking an unseemly interest in my rear end.
Other saddles I use and like are Brooks B17 and Swift, the already mentioned Selle Italia Turbo, Selle San Marco Concor. The Brooks are awfully heavy, though.
What saddles do you like?. Can you ride a wide range of saddle, or are you only comfortable on a few types?
I own a Fizik Antares, a Selle Italia Flite Ti, and a Selle Italia Turbo, as my 3 non-tensioned leather saddles. My 3 tensioned leather seats are a Brooks Swift Ti, an Ideale 80 and an Ideale 90. I can tell you that both Selle Italia seats are very comfortable for 25-35 miles, and then become progressively less so. The Fizik Antares is never tremendously comfy, but it doesn't seem to get worse on longer rides. For Long rides, it's got to be one of the 3 leather saddles.
I just swapped the saddles on my newly acquired De Rosa (which came with a Selle Italia Flite Titanium Genuine Gel) and my Trek Y-Foil, which had been wearing the Brooks Swift Titanium. My Y-Foil is my lightest, fastest bike, but I just about never ride it more than 30-35 miles at a time, because my hands get numb using the brifters on it. I can already see that my De Rosa is going to be the bike I take on longer rides, and I found that the Selle Italia saddle is really comfortable for around 30 miles, but then I start to feel pressure points on it. The Brooks Swift, like my two Ideale leather saddles, is comfortable for as long as I want to sit on it. It weighs about 5 ounces more than the Selle Italia, but now I feel like the synergy between the saddles and the bikes they are on is perfect. The Selle Italia being lighter on the lighter faster bike, but the Brooks being a perfect match for a 30 year old steel steed.