Hello!
I’ve tried several saddles, the one I have now is a Cobb Max. Previously I had a Adamo road. Both are ok but I feel that both are causing some rubbing and discomfort and I belive would like to have a saddle that is a bit more firm up front and a bit wider just behind the front. I ride quite steep around 79 degrees. Could the Sitero be a good choice?
/Patrik
Can’t speak bout the sitero but had both of the others.
Didn’t get really with the Cobb during 5weeks trying.
Moved to prologue finding rubbing issues after a while, switched the road from my rr and squeezed the rails with a hoseclamp to get something like the Cobb 55, this works fine for a few month now.
Without squeezing there was also rubbing cause of the width.
I spent a few bucks on saddles maybe you can avoid it by trying the hoseclamp first. Good luck.
I have the sitero and a handful of other people I know ride this same saddle and love it. The only way to know is to get on it and go. Try your local bike shop and see if they have a loaner program.
I had the same Cobb and switched to Sitero and love it… Have had lots of miles on both and I didn’t NOT like Cobb, just more happy with Sitero
Thanks!
My bike shop has the Sitero thats why I became interested in it. Will try it out!
The Sitero did not work for me. The very sharp transition from the top to the sides caused rubbing and the width transition is too rapid, so if I slid back a bit going hard up an incline it became too wide. I have tried a ton of different saddles and found that even minor differences in width really effect comfort. The Bontrager Hilo with the adjustable nose worked well for me.
I went from the Adamo Prologue to the Sitero and can’t be more pleased. The Adamo was to wide and would hurt after 40 miles. The Sitero give me the ability toove around a little to move pressure points. It’s def worth giving a shot. I think it’s the best tri saddle currently on the market but I realize that’s very subjective!
The nice thing about the Sitero is that the sit surface is a “widening wedge”. What does this mean. Basically the Adamo the prong width is fixed. Your sit bones are either square on top or you are screwed. The Sitero, you basically end up on the exact spot moving either slightly forward or slightly backwards for the width of your sit bones. The surface that supports your sit bones if flat like a chair versus the Adamo where the prongs are circular (kind of) like sitting on the surface of a baseball bat under each sit bone.
I feel the engineering and human interface design in the Sitero was done with substantially more thought.
Once you end up in the correct fore-aft location “FOR YOU” on the Sitero, you will almost never move further forward or backwards because further forward the sit surface is too narrow and further backwards, it is too wide…you’ll barely move 1.5 - 2.5 cm fore-aft on this saddle versus a conventional saddle where the sit surface for your sit bones my be quite long.
I also found because this saddle is firm and “sinks less” my saddle height needed to be around 3-5 mm lower than with the Bonetrager Hilo (which I also like because it too has a varying width sit surface where you can end up where your sit bones need to be)…but I find the Sitero takes the Bonetrager Hilo design several notches further in terms of comfort.
I also played with saddle tilt. Intially I had it a bit nose down, but once I realized that I needed to lower the saddle a bit to get the same effective saddle height as some of my softer former saddles, I ended up converging towards “totally level”.
Dev