Good, solid support, no squishy feeling or pressure in delicate areas.

The cheesy simu-carbon paint they used to cover the natural beauty of carbon.

This is for the older 125g SLR carbon saddle. WOW! As soon as I sat on this thing I knew it was the saddle for me! I've ridden on many different saddles, loved some, hated some, and this one is the best I've ever had! I thought that it would be hard, uncomfortable, and take a while to get used to, but I was wrong! It feels like sitting on nothing at all, like you kind of float above the bike. Not pressure on those sensitive areas, no numbness, just support. This one is a keeper

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No other carbon saddles used

Believe it or not it the most comfortable saddle that I have used. I am not a seasoned veteran with years of road riding either. I certainly would not describe my buttocks as being tough. I used it for a six and half hour ride on the weekend and my butt didn't get sore until the last half hour. I experienced no numbness either.

Not that I have noticed

Wow I love it. Very light!!

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Selle italia flight ti; Bontrager with ti rails and carbon and kevlar; wilderness trail bikes saddle as came OEM on '98 Gary Fisher Mountain bikes (the WORST saddle ever!!); some other crummy/ flexy saddle I inherited from the previous owner

Did I mention it looks cool? I'm allowed to say 1194 more words, but that's it.

Weaknesses? Where it connects to your bike and to your butt. If your butt is a weakness, you'll soon find out.

If saddles were like shoes, this saddle would be the stiletto high heels of shoe-dom. Looks cool, feels like an instrument of torture. But it looks so cool... In the good old days we rode hard leather saddles and they were terrific. After time the leather would form to your backside's shape and it would feel perfect - when you sold your bike, you kept the saddle, sort of like pedals today. Well, carbon fiber is definately NOT leather. I normally ride a "padded" SLR with no problem, so I thought I'd give this carbon thing a try 'cause it looks so cool. But from the outset, this thing felt wierd. Slippery at first, it soon became sticky and just felt rock hard at that point. I started to get lower back pains, something I never got with the SLR. The other day the saddle broke - it's a long story, don't ask. I'm shopping for a new saddle now...a regular SLR with that thin layer of padding. Stiletto's are not my thing, I guess.

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About the whole Selle Italia line-up at one time or another. Where ever my body meets my bike, I make sure it's from Italy.

I have the seat all the way forward on the rails. Things creak (210 lbs), things flex. Things do not break. 125 grams!

See above - me thinks the seat doth creak too much, but I do abuse it. I got the seat with the 10 grams of padding on it. I ride a lot. The padding eventually rubbed off - sort of like when the terminator walked out of the fire with just his shiny alloy skeleton left. While I like the firm carbon support, I'm starting to look around for a grooved carbon seat with a "love channel" or some such thing.

I was leary of the minimal padding, but went ahead and bought it anyways because I had alreadly lost all the fat I could loose. Why on earth do I think the thing is comfortable? As I see it, there are two load bearing bones in our arse (approximately). With this saddle, that is where the load goes. This took a week or so for my 210 lb (tall) self to get used to. I realize now that previous saddles, with all their foam, were supporting my weight, with their fluffiness, all over the place - places that God did not intend for weight to be supported...

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Various cheap and expensive padded saddles.

Light (obviously) Comfortable Nobody wants to "try the bike"

Scratches easily Expensive Only one optimum clamping position Presses against sit-bones when you sit upright

I've tried some saddles with lots of padding before and they hurt like hell! When you first get on this baby, the first 3 minutes can be like "What the ($&# did I get this for?" Then, as your ass adjusts to it, you don't realize you're sitting on a chunk of unpadded carbon anymore. In fact, the only time you remember it's there is when you dismount at the end of the ride. Part of the genius of its design is also its weakness...the saddle flexes ever so slightly where it curves outward from the base of the nose. It's this flex that gives when the rider is seated on it, bending like a cobra's fangs to allow some measure of comfort. BUT it only works if the rails are clamped at the middle to provide the leverage. This can limit the fore-aft adjustability of the saddle and hence affect the fit of your bike. Definitely a try before you buy proposition.

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saddles from Specialized, Fizik, Koobi, etc

I usually have pain on my "Flite" after 30km but it never happen on the SLR even after 90km non-stop riding. Besides, it looks cool!! The three holes may be useful to drop water after swimming?!

The sharp edge of the nose sometimes hook the shorts when repositioning on the saddle after stand-up attack.

I am light so I feel good on it. It fits my little hip well.

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Flite, Coda, Oktavia...

Light. If you want the lightest then go w/ AX Lightness, but I didn''t have that much money to drop & I didn''t really want to ship from Germany, so...

The most uncomfortable saddle I''ve ever ridden. Maybe I''m spoiled w/ my Terry Fly, but I played around for 2 hours trying to get the thing less than painful & failed.

If you want the lightest saddle possible & have had some sort of metal implant or no sense of feeling in your backside this is definately the way to go. For me, however, it just wasn''t worth it. I may give it another go, but I was definately disappointed. Also, this is a saddle for the light. Not recommended for those over 150. Luckily I fit the bill in this dept., so I thought I''d give it a whirl. Lesson learned. Some areas aren''t worth the compromise.

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Comfort! If you''ve seen one but never ridden one you simply will not accept that this is the most comfortable saddle I''ve ridden. It''s just a thin plate of kevlar reenforced carbon with absolutely no padding. Flick it with your finger and it rings out! I bought one to take to Majorca for week and with out having previously sat on it logged up 1000km in 7 days. No numbness or sores, incredible! Even ditched the bike at 30kmph and it did not shatter on impact as expected, more over with no padding to rip it just got a small flat spot on one side.

Lasts about 7 days! After the fist couple of hundred Kms the Aeronautical engineers on the same trip pointed out what looked like stress marks appearing on the top surface of the saddle. These matched the three points at which the rails are attached to the under side of the saddle. These seemed to develop over the week. At 175 lbs I''m not the lightest rider out there but any saddle should cope with 175 lbs. With the nature of carbon, and it''s potential to fail catastrophically, my faith has waned, nobody wants shards of carbon flying around down there! If i hadn''t ditched it right at the end of the week it would have been on it''s way back to Selle now. May be it was a one off, shame because it truly was a great saddle

Looks like it would kill you at 10 paces.

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