Which Saddle?

Antares? You are clearly a "bull", H.

Get an Arione, Balki.

Arione = baby

Im using an Arione now. Its great for my old 8 mile commute, but the new commute is now 17 miles each way and its properly tenderizing my cruids.

Their site is a bit rubbish all of a sudden. They've doubled the range without a proper discussion of differences between models or weights. I've just emailed them for some clarification. If in doubt I'd go for the Road version Or like I mentioned before, go for a solid saddle so that only the body parts that need to be in contact with the saddle are and the soft tissue is unaffected. If you really are worried about your johnson take the Adamo- at the least it will sell second hand.

Thanks for the advice again.... I think I will try one, but the Road/Racing specs indicate that they are for low hip angle/TT style positions:

"THE ORIGINAL – and still our top of the line performance saddle for triathletes and time trialers. Designed for aggressive riding in the 0* to 30* hip angle position (aero bars). This seat offers superb comfort in a normally uncomfortable position. The Adamo Racing is completely UCI compliant for time trialing. It even sports a nifty transition rack hook on the back for racking your bike. Uses light weight foam and gel pads with titanium alloy rails. 245mm long and 130mm wide. "

I think I want something a bit more pedestrian.

Have you rode a fizik saddle before? If so, try their new versus range that has a central channel to reduce pain on your danglies.

Use the spine concept to decide if you're a Arione, Antares or Aliante type. I'm liking the look of the Arione as have narrow sit bones but on long rides get numbness from a Arione CX.

Link - http://cyclingbeat.com/fizik-versus-saddles/

Awesome link Dov. Having taken years to find a saddle that works I'd settled on the Arione, which was almost perfect but just a little uncomfortable/numbing in the soft-n-danglies after an hour or so... Hopefully the versus version will actually be the perfect saddle for me.

I have a small nice project that need a specific saddle.

since the frame is Red, white and blue so am i after a saddle in these colors. Would love to have the French flag. But that isnt the most importent thing.
So do you have any suggestions? Concor, Kashimax?

Regs.

I no longer need this and am keen to sell it on to buy another Aliante.

Its like new to be honest, no wear. Its a cracker but not for me.

It's back!!!

Oh FFS, not that again

I have a small nice project that need a specific saddle.

since the frame is Red, white and blue so am i after a saddle in these colors. Would love to have the French flag. But that isnt the most importent thing.
So do you have any suggestions? Concor, Kashimax?

Regs.

english, french, all the same....maybe there is a match to be made

the central cutout/channel is compulsory on all my saddles nowdays.

The Specialized Romin is by far the best i have ever tried. Just finished a 50mile round trip, with absolutely no discomfort or pain or numbness. Simply badass (pardon the pun)
Better than the Toupé even because it's not saggy in the middle whatsoever.

I dunno though, saddles, one for everyone, just go find it ! Try it before you buy it !

english, french, all the same....maybe there is a match to be made

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thats true. And the match is a Bridgestone that is Blue on one side, Red on the other and white on top.

Best would be USA since all of that US vs. Japan kind of shit. Maybe on a Kashimax ;)
But the British would do fine as well. Anything that is Red white and blue infact would made it.

well...write that pm to merak then...

Romins area awesome

Who's using the Antares? Anyone?

Compared to the Arione?

dunnno but it's supposed to be flatter isn't it?

rjs from Grupetto has one. Definitely seems like Fizik's SLR equivalent. Ask him*.

*if the forum ever goes back online :(

^ yeah, what's up with that?

Snowboarding apparently...

....

the forum's gone snowboarding?

Ricky's looking at bringing it in-house. It's not like the club's short of designers and IT bods.

That'd be betterer

much betterer

Anyone got any experience in the glut of different concor versions these days? Forato, regular and concor-X.
Regular is suede covered, forato is "luxurious perforated leather" and X is some sort of hippie non-leather thing.
Which one's the best for use with non-lycra trousers? I'd prefer a minimum of crotch wear as my charge spoon is destroying my jeans.

just avoid one that is suede, it's as simple as that.

or wear different trouser, such as the hip corduroy for example.

MG's loaner Adamo appears to be pretty good for riding in a TT position - perhaps a bit wide for my chunky thighs (there's a TT-specific version that's skinnier I think).

I'm still yet to try the SMPs from Bike Whisperer.

I've just bought this...

The search for saddle perfection continues.