I saw there's threads of any kind but not for the most important part of the bike, the seat.So this it will be a /bsg/ Bike seat generalTell me your most comfortable seat, because I got a shitty standard one that break my ass
its a saddle you retard.Here have a seat.
inb4 some retard starts screeching about b17's being garbage
Say what you will about "offroad" saddles on a road bike but I've been very pleased with my Prologo 143 NDR>>2065664Brooks in general is midwit tier and overpriced, the reason it's so popular with casuals is that there's no way to get it adjusted right so the shittiest most slipshod adjustment is just as good as spending hours at it with all the whizbang measurement equipment so people who have never set up their bike correctly think it's a miracle that it feels the same no matter how little effort you put into it>but effort is for tryhard freds!Yes, at least we agree on that
>>2065661You seat on them, so is s bike seat>>2065665>Prologo 143This looks cool
>>2065667>You seat on themjust say you're esl and don't know the proper words instead of insisting you're right
'ate ergonomics 'ate cutoutsLuv me flite/spoon/scoop simple as
for me it's the SQLab 600
>>2065694Is this so you can shit while riding?
>>2065696Yes.
>>2065706Pretty cool, you could use a butt plug tail light. Keep it attached by tying it to your balls. Just shit it out and pop it right back in whenever you want.
>>2065694I would like to try this one, is really comfortable?
>>2065727sure
>>2065694>>2065696>>2065706i looked it up and apparently it's for "prostate problems" and "designed by a urologist" so i think it's actually for people who piss themselves
>>2065734It's for fat people like bike cops etc. Being fat can put a lot of pressure on the perineum if you're too dumb to adjust the saddle
>>2065737i thought that at first, that it's for 'rhoids or something, but that manufacturer already makes other saddles that specifically say they're for lower spine/butt bone/butt hole health. that one mentions "urology" and "prostate" too many times so i think it's genuinely for people who have prostate cancer or some other up-the-butt rather than around-the-butt problemi dont think its literally designed for catheter or ostomy toobs but it does seem like the conversation that leads you to get one would go something like>you have non-metastastizing ass cancer. eat right and exercise and it will help ur 12% insurance-subsidized McTreatment™>But doctor, I hate all forms of exercise except for biking, and whilst I biked here I felt a sharp pain in my lower abdomen and then peed a little bit. Is there another way?>not my problem, either you're going in diapers before you hit 40 or you pay me personally 129,594.97 for a special bike seat that retails for a couple hundred bucksand then the fat dentist chooses to buy one of those on amazon instead of having a recurring charge to Rearz, Inc. billed to his insurance
Some of you people have a child's attitude towards health issues. Old age is going to hit you like a ton of bricks when you find out there are some age related conditions that won't care how much you think you exercised or how much better your diet was than the fatty fat hamplanet strawmen that represent "those other people" in your self-satisfied mind. A lifetime of shattered just world fallacies, on top of the health condition itself. If you're married at that point, I feel sorry for your future spouse.Actually you'll probably get a preview when your own parents start reaching "that age", but if your just world hypothesis is real, you'll blame it on their original sin, and plow obliviously into middle age, utterly unprepared for what awaits you>actually I'm just going to kill myself at age 29 years, 11 months, and 29 days!Yeah, most kids say that
>>2065740i didn't say it's the dentist's fault he has ass cancer, i was digging more at the insistence on being a lycra faggot and a side dig at the US making medical equipment more expensive than its MSRP to support insurance companies essentially becoming dropshippers for medical equipment i can't even fault the seat. i did look it up and they seem to retail for usually not more than 300$. considering a 'roid donut for a chair that won't pop when you shake a little bit from laughing during a movie can already make you have to break a c-note and "high end" bike seats are already hundreds of dollars, that ain't really bad. i wouldn't get one today since it appears designed to alleviate symptoms rather than defend from issues coming up (similar to how sitting on a donut doesnt prevent roids, it just makes them not get worse) but if my doc told me I have ass cancer but this seat will at least make me less uncomfortable I'd gladly get one. medical features aside, if you look into it it's got some neat features
why do they even still make gel seats? they get wet once and then feel like a soggy diaper foreveri had one once that i didnt even take out in the rain or snow and just over a humid month it got mushy and swollen. they have to be making them badly on purpose. my mousepads with gel rests don't do that shit and i have spilled liquor on mine
>>2065738Sitting on your perineum can result in prostate problems, impotence and incontinence. This saddle completly eliminates pressure on your perineum. It's either a better safe than sorry solution or for people that already have those problems
>>2065752fair assessment but that same company makes similar seats that allow for buttcheek redistribution and form an active suspension to translate pedalling motions into something like a walking motion to assist in lower back and asshole health. were I shopping for ass-support seats, I would get one of their other offerings first and leave the specific one anon posted as a recommendation from my urologist
Why do Brooks make people seethe. My b17 is perfectly molded to my butt shape, looks great and will probably be serving faithfully on someone else’s bike long after I’m dead. Yall can keep your plastic gel foam garbage.
>>2065765it doesn't, your "viral marketing" does
>>2065774Take your meds
If you aren't rolling Brooks saddle on a Cannondale your a fucking poorfag. Simple as.
Interesting no one here rides I guess
>>2065778what's with all the cannondale seething lately? someone in a former soviet republic just found out about brands that aren't flying pigeon and whatever the USSR handed out to party commisars prior to the breakup? I suppose a brooks would be pretty comfy on one of those boat anchors though.
>>2065791What's there even to talk about? My ass is fine with most sporty looking saddles but my favourite is the vento argo. Thanks for reading.
>>2065778>riding a thin leather meme that will sag and restrict blood flow to your dick willingly
>>2065824also I find it hilarious how after paying top coin to get the most overpriced piece of shit saddle, people proceed to "break in" that thing for sometimes up to 5000 miles while suffering through debilitating discomfort. Truly the midwit of saddles, a massive paid humiliation ritual. If your saddles isn't comfortable day 1 why bother broocucks?
Curse ye whomstve mentioned brooksSee what ye did?
>>2065832you are saying this as if it's some kind of a troll jest thing that is shitposted for fun but it's actually true and people parroting to get a brooks are delusional. I have noticed that people with wider hips (low T genetics and/or overweight) tend to meme brooks the most since any normal saddle isn't wide and bouncy enough for their mongoloid genetics.
>umm sweaty did you put the lotion on it?>did you buck broke your saddle properly?>try tilting it up your ass a bit>you are doing something wrong! I love mine!>now put the lotion in the basketfucking buffalo bill freaks
>>2065840>>2065838>>2065825>>2065824>>2065774>>2065665Seek help
>>2065844this is what being wrong and utterly btfo looks like
Best seat for riding with total incontinence shidding and farding through my p*nis?
>>2065659for me, its the Selle Italia SLR Boost TI 316. Specifically, the "Gravel" version (it has more padding, apparently). It's a relatively short saddle and has a deeper cutout for your thighs, which helps make pedalling more pleasant, imo, especially at the end of the motion, when your leg is fully extended. >TI 316That's just the branded name for the material of the rails; I don't think it's even titanium, but it's supposedly stiffer than the standard version of the saddle.
>>2065659picrel is a woman's saddle; you can tell by the width of the wings>women also have periniumz
Anyone tried these yet?
I have no idea what saddles I have on my long travel 29er or my trek domaneI can't even explain what they feel like, I guess that's how it goes when they just fit and feel right.
>>2066024I have a full carbon clone of a specialized toupe I bought for $20 off Ali. its great but I had to upholster it with foam and gel since the plain carbon hurt my ass after around 30 miles.
>>2066045>I had to upholster it with foam and gelnow I need to see this and how did you do that?
>>2066066nta but>foamyou can just get upholstery foam in sheets or rolls and sew it mostly normally to a backing>gelidk but ancient diy articles basically say to get the correct Super Absorbent Material, get it a little moist, then heat seal it, then sew around thatalternatively, because cyclists are mostly turbo buyfags, anon probably just got a saddle cover and called it "upholstering" to tie one string together to cinch it to the existing seat
>>2066076>anon probably just got a saddle cover and called it "upholstering" to tie one string together to cinch it to the existing seatsuck my dick, bitch>>2066066I wrapped it with paper and made a pattern with tabs/flaps that wrapped over. the foam was nice dense foam from a package and the gel was the heel cups you can buy for shoes. then kids nowadays use something called construction foam similar to construction paper that comes in bright colors . the foam glued down with contact cement but the gel wouldn't stick to any glue so that's why the construction foam went over it, the gel is just sandwiched in there .
>>2066084the foam with the branding on it was hard and only a mm thick
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>>2066087also, I painted the carbon fiber blue before I started
>>2066084I couldn't see from the thumbnail when I posted but what looks like tape on there is for fixing hoses, it sticks to itself but nothing else, so I was riding it like that for a while but I wanted a another layer of foam and came up with the overlay of construction foam idea.I've probably put a thousand miles on it? maybe high hundreds. but it's holding up just fine.
>>2066084>suck my dick, bitchim gay and repair clothing as a hobby. whats really hood now bitchbtw i was fucking right>you can just get upholstery foam in sheets or rolls and [attach] it mostly normally to a backing>ancient diy articles basically say to get the correct Super Absorbent Material, get it a little moist, then ... seal it, then [attach] around thatexcept you got the pre-moistened gel so gg i guess
>>2066096you said I cinched down a a fucking cover. so fuck you
>>2066099well you didn't sew it either, and used glue instead of a proper method, so yeah its basically on par with people who make kydex holsters and insist they're high end tailors nowactually kydex nerds are better than you, they at least form their shit with heat properly instead of just gluing sheets together
>>2066100there's nothing to sew to, dumbass. its a fucking layer of carbon fiber . regular saddles have the cover stapled into a layer of fucking plastic but you can't do that into carbon. the point is, anon asked ME what I did, not you. you want to upholster a saddle some other way? go nuts. but that's not the discussion. you butted in, assumed the worst of me and and insulted me when nobody asked you to begin with. my shit works perfectly, so kiss my ass
>>2066101Chill out anon, you'll live longer or something. Anyhow, pretty neato to see some diy stuff like that - never had any experience with construction foam, does it handle wet conditions well?
>>2066024I have the newer version of it (I think) and it's been comfy so farI had another ryet one but it dug into the back of my legs because of the design of the edge and softness of that part
>>2066104>wet conditionsno data on that. this is on my fast bike that I only ride fairweather for recreation. my other bike is the daily transportatio/n/ rain or shine bike. I have some extra foam, I'll ball up some paper towels and wrap it in it and run it under the faucet for you, hang on
>>2066156>I only ride fairweather for recreationyou cant make this stuff up
>>2066157?that I have multiple bikes and one of them I don't ride in the rain?that's pretty common
>>2066104>>2066156so I submerged it for over an hour weighing it down with a brick...
>>2066163>>2066156>>2066104and it's completely dry.so it should be waterproof but maybe the motion of your ass might work it through, I don't know
>>2066104come to think of it, it's not "construction foam" like "construction paper", because construction foam is used for like, insulation or some shit.the search terms are "foam sheets" or "craft foam", might want to add "kids" in there, too
>>2066135cool. never heard of that brand. do they come in colors?
>>2066088cool and thanks. But don't they already sell the padded version?>>2066135Is it this one? This is the one I was thinking of getting since I have wide sit bones. Although I'm not sure if a wide hole is also good desu.Got a Brooks B17 with a hole and it's comfy as hell. I tried the C17 (no hole) but it numbs my dick and balls.
>>2066163>>2066164>>2066165Thank you, anon - I got to keep that in mind. Hope you'll have great weekend!
>>2066186yeah that's the first one I got. I have it on my mountain bike since I sit more upright on that and the back of leg thing isn't an issue. It's comfy and for $25 worth tryinghttps://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007437852762.html>>2066167black or sometimes white
>>2066186>padded version?I was shopping specifically for a spesh Toupe clone, and several years ago the only only padded ones I saw were like what I got which was just a thin layer with the branding.my first one was bare carbon and when I was test riding it for fit I was like "this is great" but after a few long rides I decided to look for padding. I was going to paint it blue anyway so when I saw the blue one I was like "I'll start with this and see what I get," more or less expecting to add more.but the search on ali is so shit, I could easily have missed something. also maybe there's ones with good padding today but not then.>>2066187no problem, that was a very good question. I'm just happy someone replied who isn't gatekeeping the semantical definition of "upholstery."one thing I'll add is I built mine up in stages, testing it and adding more. so the gel cups were last but if I was going to do it again, I'd put the gel first (you can cut them to fit if needed) , then encapsulate them by gluing the thicker foam over (white, in my example) which is about 5mm thick (but I think thicker would be fine) and get it to where it covers/partly wraps the edges. you can see where I added more because the edges were digging into my ass flaps. so just do that all at once, then razor the right angled foam edge into a streamline shape. then make the template and wrap with the final color, which I did twice because the first layer looked rough and you can barely see but I razored it a little and added some material into the gaps before the second layer.here it is today after many miles.
>>2066205>I'm just happy someone replied who isn't gatekeeping the semantical definition of "upholstery."i have been bullied for my forays into the industrial arts and so shall you. it's how people are driven to keep going. and fwiw layering thin foam is not an unreasonable way to do that but i would probably either use a larger block of foam from the start or sew the foam together for both strength and to make a quilt-like pattern with peaks and valleys to both make bubbles of comfy and also allow sweat/salt/rainwater/etc to sluice away>you butted in, assumed the worst of me and and insulted me when nobody asked you to begin with. my shit works perfectly, so kiss my asspeople do this to me constantly why would i not do it to you
>>2066215that's pathetic
>>2066223yeawelcome to the cycle of abuse motherfucker tomorrow you'll be talking shit at someone
>>2065659>B17>Soak it in (clean) engine oil overnight>Use the oil to change your lawn mower, pressure washer etc>Take it for a day ride to stretch it>Adjust the sagSome people just don't want to be comfortable
>>2066293>engine oilwhy not an oil that doesn't have a gorillion additives
>>2066293retards like you don't understand that stretchy materials are bad for your spine, not to mention balls.
I know most of the cyclist just says "measure your seatbones and get one that matches" but that just dumb, distributing the weight over a larger surface area provides better comfort. That's why the most seller saddles looks like this
>>2066348I didn't want to waste the oil afterwards.>>2066349I don't sit on my balls, and some give is preferable to the saddle transmitting all the jolts from the road. It's not like sitting on a trampoline if that's what you're imagining.
>>2066350>this is the bestseller, it must be the best>what is the iq bell curve
>>2066350nope
>>2066350>"measure your seatbones and get one that matchesno, it has to be wider than the sitbones. but maybe that's what you meant?
>>2066350>chafing rash intensifies
>>2066366>I don't sit on my balls, and some give is preferable to the saddle transmitting all the jolts from the roaduse your legs, fatso. all brooks users are genuine retarded and don't know how to even cycle or fit their bikes properly
>>2066366>>2066293i dont think ive ever seen a brooks stan make a single good post
>>2066350more surface area = more rubbing
>>2066350It depends on your riding position.The seat you posted is for a comfort/city bike with a pretty upright riding position.If you lean forward too much with a wider seat like that, you'll slide forward because your legs will be rubbing against it.
>>2065664Yesterday I took my touring bike out for the first time since fall, so nice to ride on that well broken in B17, nothing is as comfortable. Almost want to buy B17s for all my bikes but probably won't, kind of prefer something firmer when I am not doing distances.
Getting back into riding for the first time in years and my bike has an old superlite seat from the 90s and now my asshole/gooch hurts really bad
>>2065997Same here, landed on Selle Italia SLR boost gravel L3 on my specialized diverge gravel rig (fit is on the aggressive side - no spacers, quite a bit of saddle-to-bar drop). Tried both S3 and L3 versions, L3 had better support (115 mm sit bones). Tried around 10 most hyped saddles of different shapes, brands and padding. Had couple of 2-5 hour rides so far, 0 saddle issues.
>>2066821Stop being poor.
