Best saddle for nose riding

Triathlon Forum
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Tom,

When you ride on the normal/fat part of the saddle on your Yaqui, do you rotate your hips forward as much as you can?

The turbomatic is not a flat saddle like some of the new ones. It kind of flares up an out at the back, so you sit bones share the weight with your perineum and it is very comfortable. Once I realized lower was not always better and raced my bars up three or four inches, I could stay in the aero position all day that way. I have tried seats with a cut out and all it did was put more pressure on the areas that were not cut out. I used to think that my sore butt had to do with the saddle, but I learned it is more a question of proper bicycle fit and positioning.

What do you think about the aero-ness of your Yaqui? Have you found it comfortable on long rides?

I don’t know which bike about which you are thinking, but for your money I don’t think you can beat the Manzanita/complete bike for $1,700. I bought a Mariola, but if I could do it again I would have bought the round-tubed Octotillo for less. I think “aero-tubed” bikes are marketing, pure and simple. I owned a Cervelo P2 and didn’t suddenly become faster because of it.

The Yaqui is a far better bike for me. I sold the cervelo and have kept in contact with the owner who just did Great Floridian on it. He said it was comfortable but also noted that he did see any time-savings benefit.

I have ridden upwards of six hours on the Yaqui and it is a tremendous bike for all terrains. It climbs just fine, is very stable when descending, which is not a characteristic of most tri bikes I have ridden. The Cervelo was fast enough, but downright scary on technical descents. Even spinning along in 53x12 at 60kph was white-knuckle terrifying.

Not so on the Yaqui. There are some good stretches of long descending roads in Joshua Tree national park that just beg to be spun out in a huge gear and I do it with total confidence without ever coming off the aerobars.

You will not regret buying a bike from Ves.

Chad

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Ive had alot of succes with Supergo’s knockoff of the SLR, not the SLR Tri, just the regular slr. So I would suggest getting an SLR or the Supergo version of the SLR (I believe its called the Aireon or smthg).

Also I don’t know who said nose riding was bad…but Ive found it too be the fastest way to ride…my best rides this summer came when I actually raised my saddle a little and slid it back a cm or two so that my optimal position was right on the nose. I couldn’t ride this way day in and day out, but for hard training and racing it proved to be fast.

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I’ve been moving my saddle forward to try and open up my hip angle. My current saddle, even with a QR cover, is not that comfy riding toward the nose.

I’ve heard the Arione is longer and fatter than a typical road saddle in the nose, and that the saddle widens more toward the front of the saddle. This all sounds good.

How does the Arione Tri compare to the Arione? Is it the same saddle with more padding, hence wider?

Also, I’ve read the Profile Design Tri Stryke might be even wider than the Arione. Is the profile of the Tri Stryke similar to the Arione, as viewed from above?

Any comments about these or other good nose riding saddles welcomed.
Selle Italia T1.

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SLR t1 is great, wide nose but not too wide.