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Originally Posted by The Weak Link

OUTRAGE ALERT!

I've just been informed that Terry Fly Ti saddles are on back order, in part because OCP's the world over are ordering them like mad. I'm going to have to wait two weeks to get mine.

We now return you to the scheduled thread. Had this been a true emergency......

I just got mine, and so far so good. It was either a saddle or a setback seat post, so I'm trying the saddle out. I was about an inch from KOP with the Brooks. I tried the Liberator, but it was to wide and cushy. So far so go, I'll know more tomorrow.

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Originally Posted by bkaapcke

Now that I am fully acclimated to lwb recumbent seats, I do look at some roadie saddles and 'medieval torture device' is the only thing that comes to mind. I just don't know how you guys do it. Of course, at 59, I guess I'm an old guy. You get a different perspective. bk

No No your still a kid. Any more talk like that and it will be reported to the moderators.

Over 50 is just a quallifying heat!

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Originally Posted by bkaapcke

Now that I am fully acclimated to lwb recumbent seats, I do look at some roadie saddles and 'medieval torture device' is the only thing that comes to mind.

I switch back and forth from an upright with a Terry Cite saddle (designed for upright riders) and a Sun recumbent. I find the Terry pretty decent - although when I ride it without any padding in my shorts, I do find it less comfortable.

But in the last week I took test rides on 4 road bikes, two of them using saddles that get very good reviews in the on-line forums. I found three of them to be astoundingly uncomfortable and painful, with the fourth being marginally tolerable. It's now been 4 days and there are parts of me that are still healing from that experience.

On a couple of them, when I mounted the bike, I couldn't believe they expected someone to ride on that saddle. I got back from one short, 10'ish minutes, ride, which I had to cut short because it was so painful, and the guy tells me that it was his favorite saddle. I was stunned.

I've never ridden on a Brooks, so I have no idea what those feel like.

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Originally Posted by Tom Bombadil

Sis likes upright so I put her on a Brooks B67. She has done 70 miles on it; and likes it a lot.