Profile Design Tri Stryke sadlle

Wow, nice saddle. I finally have a saddle where I can go long stretches without being painfully uncomfortable. And at $79 a pop it is a baragin in comparison to some of the other saddles out there.
One thing though. I have a 2002 Cervelo P2K and the rails were too wide to fit in the seat clamp provided. My fix was to take vice grips, slightly squeeze the rails together and clamp the seat in place. I don’t really like this solution since there is likely a lot of stress being placed on the clamp since the rails are trying to go back to their normal shape. Anyone have any other ideas what I can do aside from bashing the rails in place? :slight_smile:
The seat is sweet!

Interesting… I bought the Stryke saddle recently, absolutely love it, but the rails are either at an atypical width (?), or are thinner than normal because the saddle will not set tightly in my Corima seatpost clamp. Perhaps others have similar issues and fixes?

brother bonk

I am on the verge of buyin one but now you have me worried - how wide are the rails? Would appreciate it if you could let me know as I couldn’t find it (the info) on the PD site.

Thx

Wider than my seta clamp. :wink:

Not sure of the specifics. If you need that, I would contact the company. I am scared to take mine off. :slight_smile:

I just got the same saddle and like it so far (I actually wrote a review of it on my blog). I noticed the same thing on my P3. I didn’t think too much of it. I just kind of squeezed the rails together with my hand as I tightened down my saddle clamp on my seat post. Once the rails were in the grooves and everything was tightened down, I figured they wouldn’t move.

It would be interesting to know if this was by design or not, though. If anyone hears back from PD about it, please post it here!

I read a positive review on this saddle recently, which also mentioned that the rails go back a very long way, thus enabling the rider to get a very long way forward without the use of a fancy forward seatpost. Does anyone know if the rails go back much further than on a Flite saddle?

I bought mine Friday a week ago and put it on my 2003 P2K with no problems. I went from a Terry Fly Tri with DeSoto seat pad to the TriStryke and have done two races with little discomfort. I usually start having problems as early as 15 miles but not with the TriStryke. I am a terrible runner but I would pray for the bike to get finished so I could get off the damn saddle.

Bob Sigerson

I bought mine Friday a week ago and put it on my 2003 P2K with no problems. I went from a Terry Fly Tri with DeSoto seat pad to the TriStryke and have done two races with little discomfort. I usually start having problems as early as 15 miles but not with the TriStryke. I am a terrible runner but I would pray for the bike to get finished so I could get off the damn saddle.

Bob Sigerson

Are you my long lost twin? My tri’s go like this:
Gawd I hate swimming, I can hardly wait for the bike
Man my ass is killing me I can hardly wait for the run
aaahhhhh…running, man my legs hurt, I can hardly wait till it’s over :wink:
M~