Your Saddle: Why?
12-22-07, 09:01 PM
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1. Fizik Arione on all my bikes. Seond preference is WTB Devo, but it's a bit wide.
2. Specialized Alias 143 - OMG, this would be right at home in a medieval torture chamber. Brooks Swift - too rounded on the wide part, so rides up my butt crack, allows sitbones to sink into permanent depressions when broken in - grossly unpleasant experience.
2. Specialized Alias 143 - OMG, this would be right at home in a medieval torture chamber. Brooks Swift - too rounded on the wide part, so rides up my butt crack, allows sitbones to sink into permanent depressions when broken in - grossly unpleasant experience.
12-23-07, 02:08 AM
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1. Brooks B-17 [at the right angle, otherwise it gets painful as well]
2. Cheap Saddles with too much padding
2. Cheap Saddles with too much padding
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i jam my thumbs up and back into the tubes. this way i can point my fingers straight out in front to split the wind and attain an even more aero profile, and the usual fixed gear - zen - connectedness feeling through the drivetrain is multiplied ten fold because my thumbs become one with the tubing.
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12-23-07, 08:09 AM
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i jam my thumbs up and back into the tubes. this way i can point my fingers straight out in front to split the wind and attain an even more aero profile, and the usual fixed gear - zen - connectedness feeling through the drivetrain is multiplied ten fold because my thumbs become one with the tubing.
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12-23-07, 09:43 AM
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12-27-07, 01:56 PM
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1. Specialized Toupe 143 - Though have been getting saddle sores. Deal with saddle sores or numbness???
2. There are alot - but Fizik Arione, Bontrager Race Lite, Fizike Pave to name a few.
May try SLK Pro and SLC.
2. There are alot - but Fizik Arione, Bontrager Race Lite, Fizike Pave to name a few.
May try SLK Pro and SLC.
04-19-08, 11:35 PM
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1.Selle San Marco Concor - because my body says so, very good power output, comfortable without being mushy.
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+1.I think the upside to this saddle is you can't stand still on it so it's good for races...
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04-20-08, 10:07 AM
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Currently:
1. Fizik Arione - I didn't really like it at first, but I got a pair of nice shorts with a good plain foam chamois and it feels right, now. Also looks cool, IMO.
Speicalized Toupe - I don't own one, but I test rode a Roubaix with one recently and loved it. I may replace my Arione with one when I'm not sick of spending money.
2. Selle San Marco Ponza that came on my Soloist Team. The thing digs into the back side of my thighs after only like a quarter of a mile and feels hard as a feckin' rock.
1. Fizik Arione - I didn't really like it at first, but I got a pair of nice shorts with a good plain foam chamois and it feels right, now. Also looks cool, IMO.
Speicalized Toupe - I don't own one, but I test rode a Roubaix with one recently and loved it. I may replace my Arione with one when I'm not sick of spending money.
2. Selle San Marco Ponza that came on my Soloist Team. The thing digs into the back side of my thighs after only like a quarter of a mile and feels hard as a feckin' rock.
04-20-08, 10:18 AM
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1. Brooks 17 on road bike, Brooks Flyer on MTB
2. Specialized Alias 155 saddle.
2. Specialized Alias 155 saddle.
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04-20-08, 10:27 AM
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1) Road bike: regular SLR ti, it's getting better and better
Singlespeed: Selle Italia Flite Alpes, they don't make these anymore. Best saddle I've ever had, shame it hurts like hell on my road bike
2) Arione CX. I think it might be just too flat. The sitbones don't hurt, but everything else just about does
Edit: Had a ride on my buddies Merlin with a Specialized Toupe saddle and I was amazed on how comfortable it was
Singlespeed: Selle Italia Flite Alpes, they don't make these anymore. Best saddle I've ever had, shame it hurts like hell on my road bike
2) Arione CX. I think it might be just too flat. The sitbones don't hurt, but everything else just about does
Edit: Had a ride on my buddies Merlin with a Specialized Toupe saddle and I was amazed on how comfortable it was
04-20-08, 12:23 PM
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1) Fizik Aliante. Felt great from the first ride. The longest ride I've done with it was 7 1/2 hours straight and the last thing I was worried about was my butt.
2) Specialized Avatar 143. Like sitting on a rock. Couldn't go 15 miles without squirming all over it trying, unsuccessfully, to stop the pain.
2) Specialized Avatar 143. Like sitting on a rock. Couldn't go 15 miles without squirming all over it trying, unsuccessfully, to stop the pain.
04-20-08, 01:06 PM
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Does anyone use a Brooks Swift on their racing bike?
I bought a B17 for my touring bike and it was by far the most comfortable saddled I've ever used. My but still got sore after 6+ hours, but not to the point of pain that I've experience with other saddles.
I've a stock saddle on my Argon Krypton and seriously considering a Brooks. Sure it weighs a little more but if it saves ass pain wouldn't it be work it?
I bought a B17 for my touring bike and it was by far the most comfortable saddled I've ever used. My but still got sore after 6+ hours, but not to the point of pain that I've experience with other saddles.
I've a stock saddle on my Argon Krypton and seriously considering a Brooks. Sure it weighs a little more but if it saves ass pain wouldn't it be work it?
04-20-08, 06:07 PM
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04-20-08, 06:18 PM
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This one!!! why? because is like a beautiful woman that gives me some headaches ones in a while.
https://www.trivillage.com/sitsad0300...hannelid=FROOG
https://www.trivillage.com/sitsad0300...hannelid=FROOG
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04-20-08, 06:19 PM
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1 -> bontrager race: no issues, feels fine after distances.
2 -> selle italia octavia: ouch, what's that sticking me in the crotch?
2 -> selle italia octavia: ouch, what's that sticking me in the crotch?
04-20-08, 08:35 PM
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BTW - the best saddle I've ridden is the Terry Fly. Ugly, but comfy!
04-20-08, 08:36 PM
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edit: anyone notice the date?
Well I guess if a new thread was started we'd all yell about the search function, and now I'll wait for the zombie pictures.
04-20-08, 08:37 PM
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we need some pictures of the ass as well to compare which saddle mine would fit on
I ride on a specialized toupe team, best ive ridden
I ride on a specialized toupe team, best ive ridden
04-20-08, 08:43 PM
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Your crazy. This thing hurts like a *****. That little slump in the saddle and the bump on the nose? Maybe I have it set wrong but otherwise *shudders*.
edit: anyone notice the date? Well I guess if a new thread was started we'd all yell about the search function, and now I'll wait for the zombie pictures.
edit: anyone notice the date?
Well I guess if a new thread was started we'd all yell about the search function, and now I'll wait for the zombie pictures.I would still be using my SLR, but it cracked in twain in a crit at twilight of last season. Alas...
04-20-08, 08:57 PM
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My Avocet Racing I is terrific; just as good today as it was when I got it with my bike back in 1991.