Re: Most comfortable saddle?

Quoted message said:

BROOKS B17 Standard. I suffrered for years with poor saddle comfort.
With a Brooks you will ride until legs fail not stop because of butt
pain

I'm one of a lot of people who found Brooks to be about the most
uncomfortable saddle they've ever tried. My theory is that I need a
saddle that is relatively flat front-to-back. I like Flites and similar
saddles. On my MTB I have a Titec "Beserker" which is like an oversize
Flite, which another large (6'4"😉 friend also swears by. I had a little
less luck with WTB saddles, but my wife finds them "perfect" so she
rides them both on & off-road. I also find Terry saddles less
comfortable, like the WTB saddles, they have a bit of sag
front-to-back, but nowhere near what leather saddles have. My current
favorite is a Selle Italia "Tri-matic" (very much like a Turbomatic, I
guess), very flat. I've done double centuries and beyond on this one. I
swapped with my sister for the B17, we both wound up happy.

A funny anecdote: I was looking for a saddle for my (road) beater, and
in my box of discards was a woman-specific MTB saddle that I bought
years ago & my wife hated. I threw it on my bike and found it to be
pretty confortable, so there it will stay. It's a very small saddle,
and I'm a very large (6'10", 235) guy, but it's flat, and that seems to
be the key for me.

I have tried Many Many saddles. My current saddle is a Selle Italia
Prolink Gel Flow. I really like it, it a nice cross between a
narrower racing style and a wider more comfortable saddle. Another
saddle I really like is the Avocet O2 Air 40 Men's saddle. Its
wider and more of a touring saddle. They also make it in a narrower
racing style, that I have not tried but I'll bet it would be good.

Both of these have the anatomical cut out or recession which is
key to comfort and avoiding future sorrows.

-Alex

Peter Cole said:

Quoted message said:

BROOKS B17 Standard. I suffrered for years with poor saddle comfort.
With a Brooks you will ride until legs fail not stop because of butt
pain

I'm one of a lot of people who found Brooks to be about the most
uncomfortable saddle they've ever tried. My theory is that I need a
saddle that is relatively flat front-to-back. I like Flites and similar
saddles. On my MTB I have a Titec "Beserker" which is like an oversize
Flite, which another large (6'4"😉 friend also swears by. I had a little
less luck with WTB saddles, but my wife finds them "perfect" so she
rides them both on & off-road. I also find Terry saddles less
comfortable, like the WTB saddles, they have a bit of sag
front-to-back, but nowhere near what leather saddles have. My current
favorite is a Selle Italia "Tri-matic" (very much like a Turbomatic, I
guess), very flat. I've done double centuries and beyond on this one. I
swapped with my sister for the B17, we both wound up happy.

A funny anecdote: I was looking for a saddle for my (road) beater, and
in my box of discards was a woman-specific MTB saddle that I bought
years ago & my wife hated. I threw it on my bike and found it to be
pretty confortable, so there it will stay. It's a very small saddle,
and I'm a very large (6'10", 235) guy, but it's flat, and that seems to
be the key for me.

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Aman said:

Both of these have the anatomical cut out or recession which is
key to comfort and avoiding future sorrows.

You obviously took the blue pill.

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Quoted message said:

I like Flites and similar
saddles. On my MTB I have a Titec "Beserker" which is like an oversize
Flite, which another large (6'4"😉 friend also swears by.

I've arrived at the same solution -- Flites on my road bikes, a Titec
Berserker on my MTB. For me, the Titec feels like an oversized Flite
with more padding for shock absorption.

Rick

I rode with an old flite ti for several years, until I developed a
severe UTI after a particularly long ride. Apparently some scarring
resulted (psychological or otherwise), as I was never able to get comfy
on that saddle again - at least, not on my road bike with a 2-4" saddle
to bar drop (It's happily perched on my MTB now). I then tried a flite
gel (the older style with three distinct gel pads), and while I was not
blown away, It served for a few years. In time, however, the gel seems
to have hardened. My latest acquisition is a Terry Fly Ti, which I've
spent several hours on the trainer and a few 1.5-2 hour rides on thus
far. Much more comfortable than the flite gel, but the profile is
taking some adjustment - very flat, rather than the slight upward flare
that the Selle Italia saddles had