I bought a Selle Anatomical H2 a few months ago. After maybe 2-3 rides, it has broken in very nicely. I'm relatively new to cycling so I haven't been through many saddles, but I was sold by the flexibility of it. For comfort, I'd buy it again.

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Strava

Perhaps the rest of your bike fit is a mess? The right saddle won't fix everything so perhaps back up and make sure the basics are covered. (How was that for a non-answer?)

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"They know f_ck-all over at Slowtwitch"
- Lionel Sanders

That's a solid non-answer, while not being a terrible ide, either. I've had a set up, and have been at this sport for a long time anyway. I've messed with positioning many, many times over the years. My seat is decidedly not too high, nor too low, cleat position is fine, reach and stack are fine, hip angle, etc. So it's a good question, but I don't think this is an issue of fit. I just haven't found the right saddle and am wondering if I'd know before a few hundred miles. Hence my question of how long it has taken people to feel great in their saddle.

Yes. I'm a bike racer and the first time I got on an Arione-style saddle is was clear it was really good.

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Thank you, JT10000.

Is this for a road or tri bike? For me never had a road saddle I wasn't fine with. Never found a tri saddle I was completely happy with.

Road. But good to know i'm not the only one, given what you're saying about tri saddles.

I'm taking a year out of tri and cycling 6/7 days a week.
I have different saddles and if I'm on the same bike each day I get some sore spots. It sounds indulgent but swapping between bikes, position and saddle relieves the pressure or shifts it around.
If I have a saddle sore then I go to the bmx track.

I have had the most experience with roadbikes (since i was 13, i'm 43 now). I have had plenty seats that didn't agree with me. I have had the usual soreness and numbmess that most people experience sometimes.

On my current road bike, I have had different brands, Fizik, Selle Italia et cetera. I wound up with a Specialised seat that is very comfy and have been using it since 2013.

I only got a tri bike recently. It had a seat that i didn't like when i got it so i got one of those ISM seats and it takes a bit of getting used to but turns out to be very comfortable.

So the advise i would have to offer is to get a seat you think you might like, try it a while to get used to it and if you don't like it try something else. Sell the ones you don't like.

I would agree that tri saddles are more difficult to dial in. I've lived with stock saddles on my road bike quite happily but the Hilo saddle on my Trek SC was traded in the first week or two in favor of an ISM pn 3.0

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"They know f_ck-all over at Slowtwitch"
- Lionel Sanders

My road saddle (Romin evo) felt amazing the first time I rode it. It was on a bike I was test riding, and just fit my anatomy perfectly.

My tri saddle (PN1.1) felt “ok” the first few rides, but with some thigh rubbing. I adjusted the fore/aft 5mm, and it instantly felt perfect.

The days of the Brooks leather saddle that you needed to break in like a baseball glove are long gone.

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ECMGN Therapy Silicon Valley:
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Hello Train and All,

I think the words [Bike] 'Saddle' and 'Comfort' used together are an oxymoron.

Have you ever seen a lounge chair that was a bicycle saddle?

Or a movie theater with bicycle saddles for customers to sit on while watching the show?

While some people have an 'iron-ass' personality ..... few actually have an iron ass.

Think out of the box .... make a very light bespoke carbon fiber ass mold that will fit in your bike shorts.

What we are looking for here is a distribution (as opposed to concentration) of pressure.

Visualize sitting on a tractor seat ..... as opposed to sitting on the post that supports it.

Here is some inspiration ............



Put an 'end' to suffering.

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Cheers, Neal

+1 mph Faster

Neal, can you say a bit more? I'm not certain I fully understand what you're saying. I think you're saying find a saddle that distributes pressure over a large (or adequate) area depending on anatomy. But are you saying that in your experience comfort in a saddle is a myth? Or, to literally make a carbon mold that fits me?

I'm not looking for an Eames lounge on a seatpost, but some people do seem to say they've found saddles that fit well out of the gate, so maybe there is hope for me yet.

Hello Train and All,

Lots of 'passable' seats out there ... I liked ISM narrow for awhile and now like the Dash.

But for all out comfort you will need to distribute the seat pressure .... no concentrate it .... and that requires some new thinking.

Humans do not intentionally sit on something uncomfortable if there an alternative.

A quick search shows 84 Slowtwitch threads with 'seat and pain'.

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Cheers, Neal

+1 mph Faster

A great resource for saddle comfort (as well as bike fit) is a YouTube channel called 'Bike Fit Adviser'. It includes some specific videos on saddle comfort. Really worth checking out.

the "right" saddle will be very comfortable. so as to which saddle you and your bike fitter decide based off your anatomy and physiology. So if you are not comfortable on your saddle then yes your bike fit is off.

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Robert Driskell
Certified Master Body Geometry fit Technician
Certified Master Retul Fit Technician
Zipp Service Course Specialist
Bikes Plus Pensacola Florida

I ride an Adamo. My ass does tend toward iron as I use only the first few angstroms of the seat. It works and I dont get numb but am open to better designs.

Props. Laughed out loud.