http://biketestblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/first-perfect-10-score.html
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Why are you writing an article about Nadia Comaneci in the '76 Olympics? Oh wait you are talking about Bo Derek. I thought you wrote about bikes 
I am clicking the link now to see what you really wrote about.
Please do.
bunnyman let me ride this saddle, and it’s nice.
Details? Why is this saddle good enough to be compared to Bo Derek?
How is it different than other saddles with a cut out?
Go through the blog and you will find out why.
To give a short answer, it is executed slightly differently than other gloryhole saddles. I was not sold until I actually figured out how to use it.
Is there more than this: Sunday, June 19, 2005 First Perfect 10 Score!!!
The perfect 10 score goes to the Blackwell Virginia Saddle.
Yes, it takes some 'splaining, but it is the most excellent saddle in the aero position.
When I get my webstore, I will carry this saddle.
John Cobb will get an award commemorating the first 10 ever awarded on biketestblog.blogspot.com. I will have to get to work on it.
http://biketestblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/blackwell-virginia-saddle_03.html
http://biketestblog.blogspot.com/2005/06/update-on-blackwell-saddle_12.html
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Thanks. Whydidn’t you post these links in the firstpost? I assumed youwere directing us to where we needed to be.
With regards to the saddle. how is it different than the specialized body geometry? It extends all the way to the rear?
I have tried several “anatomical saddles” over the last 8 years (I had a saddle with a cut out before it was popular) i have found though that an anatomical saddle minimizes the amount that you can move around on the saddle (particulrly side to side) when I have ridden an anatomical saddle in the past I almost feel like i am aiming my perinuem (taint) to the cut out and not moving around that much because I did not want my sit bones to sink into the cutout (which would really cause pressure on the soft tissue) so I would sit static with my sit bones supported adn deal with the pressure from the “edges”. I ahve ridden a selle basanao cut out, terry, specialied body geometry (& s works) and a pro link trans am. Recently I tried a regular flite and to this point I would say that it is the most comfortable so far because it allows me to move around and not put pressure on any one point.
Does the cutout in the Blackwell allow you to move around without risk of the sit bones sinking into the cutout?
Like many saddles, this is a “your results may vary” type of things. However, there are some very unique things from other saddles:
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Nose is considerably higher
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Saddle is just a bit over 130mm wide, edges nearly squared off (i.e. no chafing areas on the side of the saddle). No edges to speak of.
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Firm memory foam prevents soft tissue from sinking into the saddle.
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Works well with the Cobb theory of how to sit on a saddle.
I think this would be worth the try.
bunnyman-
speaking of Cobb, did you ever get around to publish that interview w/ him? thanks, your RH…
I have been buried. I keep asking for an interview with slowman,but have not gotten around to interviewing him, either. Will come soon.
Bunnyman…I would be interested in hearing how this saddle fares on a regular non-suspension bike as opposed to your Softride. On my Softride, I could have been riding on a concrete slab and I would have been comfortable. I would like to see how it holds up under a 100km pound and grind of the road. Any chance you will do that? Send it my way and I would give it a go.
Mark
One of my riding partners, a.k.a. huret5steel liked it on his Cinelli Corsa.
right on. keep up the good work.
Josef
Hi Bunny,
Thanks for the reviews.
Please, don’t take this the wrong way… but you really need to do some work editing the copy on your blog. It’s really, really bad.
I’ve tried to read your reviews a couple of times now, and I can’t finish the articles.
Here’s the first sentence from the saddle review:
“This is the saddle John Cobb was on about. By a casual glance, it seems to be your typical cut-out saddle to prevent your nether regions from being numb. But, it is considerably narrower than the Selle San Marco Rolls it will be replacing.”
Back when I was a writing tutor, my critique of this piece would have read something like the following:
"This is the saddle John Cobb was on about (Makes no sense. Did you mean “going on about?) By a casual glance, it seems to be your typical cut-out saddle to prevent your nether regions from being numb. But, it is considerably narrower than the Selle San Marco Rolls it will be replacing.”
Your prepositions are a mess, and your opening sentence refers only to the subject of the review through adjectives; this is kind of a cardinal sin. You need to throw in a proper noun now and then.
I clicked off this review after 3 paragraphs.
To be completely, brutally honest, if I had come upon your blog when surfing, rather than looking it up knowing it was yours, I never would have gotten past your “intro to the site” blurb -
“This blog is testing different bicycles and components in an entirely different way- I am going to tell you how I am living with these components and bikes as opposed to giving an advertiser-friendly review.”
Again, editing, I would have written:
“This blog is testing different bicycles and components in an entirely different way (this BLOG is testing? how does a blog ride a bicycle? Don’t repeat “different” twice in the same sentence. Period here, not -)- I am going to tell you how I am living with these components and bikes as opposed to giving an advertiser-friendly review.”
No offense intended. Please take this as constructive criticism.
With the thousands of web sites/blogs out there, I have found that I simply click past any site that has notably incorrect/awkward/poorly (or non -) edited text. You are, unfortunately, in this category.
I fully appreciate the effort you are going through to do this. I have written product reviews for publication myself, and I think your blog is a fantastic idea - I just can’t read it, and that’s a shame, because I think you have interesting things to say…
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Duly noted.
If you would be kind enough to keep attempting to read it, the copy should be improved.
Thanks for attempting to read it.
Tomorrow, the intro should appear differently. I have edited it.
I am working on the rest.