It would if I didn’t have another friend tell me post-race that he snapped rails on two separate occasions on an SHC170… I’ve already pinged John about this. Seems he needs to have a sit-down with QC with whomever is making his saddles.
That said, I’ve ridden a HC or SHC 170 for six years and this is the first time I’ve ever had an issue in tens of thousands of miles.
How old is the saddle?
It was new for my Kona 2012 bike. I rode it Sept 2012 - Dec 2013. In 2014, I switch to Specialized because I knew that every athlete was on the chopping block, and while they had tolerated my riding the Cobb, I knew they weren’t pleased with it. All other things being equal, I was pretty sure that unless I somehow managed to win every race I did, it would likely be reason enough to trim me from the roster. So given that I wasn’t super confident about my racing at the time, I switched to the Romin EVO for 2014. I liked it a lot, just not quite as much as the Cobb. And then I put it back on for this year.
So, all in, it has about 24 months of riding on it. But I do about 60% of my riding on my road bike. So I’d guess that it maybe has 8,000mi on it.
Sorry for the long answer to the short question.