Originally Posted by
jimincalif
For those of you who ride both MTB and road, do you typically use the same saddle on your bikes?
On my road bike I use a Specialized Toupe Expert and it is reasonably comfortable for most of my riding including occasional centuries.
My mountain bike is an older rigid Trek 850 that I bought new 20 years ago and still has whatever saddle it came with. It's my knockabout bike, but I'm now riding it a bit more both on trails and road. Yesterday I rode it for 30 miles (road this time), where my usual rides on this bike are under 20 miles, and found that I was getting pretty uncomfortable. My first thought is to get another Toupe, but with the different geometry, flat bars, etc., was wondering what others do who ride both.
I also like that saddle and have three of them, two on MTBs. Coming from an era of Flite Ti on everything, I do tend to stick to road saddles over pure MTB saddles.
Here are a few observations:
MTB saddles tend towards reliefs instead of full cutouts which keeps your butt dry in muddy terrain and stream crossings.
Road saddles sometimes have a lower distance from rail to top of saddle. On hard landings, you can bottom out if not careful; on some seatposts and cutouts, this could be an issue. But I guess people are running dropper posts now. Here is a pic of a toupe on a hybrid where the bolts are about one inch from the top of the saddle. My MTB Toupes have different types of seatpost
