After a few months of being on only my CF and Ti bikes, I was riding my steel bike yesterday. It was handling the road imperfections fine, but I had this feeling of sitting on a pile bricks. Not the saddle itself, but like it was in direct contact with the ground with no bike in between. A previous Ti bike I owned felt the same. What the two bikes have in common besides the identical saddles is non-standard seat posts...at least non-standard for me. I have been riding very light 27.2 mm CF posts for several years except for the ones on those two bikes. On the old Ti bike the post was CF, but 31.8 mm instead of 27.2. And on the steel bike, since refurbishing it, I have been running a 27.2 mm aluminum Thompson Masterpiece post. I'm suspecting that lower compliance in those two posts is responsible for the feeling.

In order to test my theory I have inquired about the cost of another one of their lightweight, two-bolt CF seat posts. If it is cheap enough, I think I will buy one and put it on the steel bike. I would really prefer that to the Thompson anyway.

Stay tuned.