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Post by bennettkaru on May 18, 2015 10:08:27 GMT
A while back I decided that my bike deserved to shed a bit more weight, so looked into various ways of doing so. The best way of shedding weight that I found was to invest £22 in this saddle. The saddle that came with my Canyon was a Fizik Antares (204g), but the new carbon offering is a mere 104g. I know that you're fidgeting thinking about the pain I'm now enduring...well..there isn't any. There's a smidge less give than that of the Antares, but that's also to do with having a stiff frame and aluminium seatpost. I was also concerned about the fact it's off some chap on ebay who has no real quality cycling kit on his shop (incidentally he has no more, but here's the same thing from Hong Kong), but for £22 I'd definitely recommend chancing it. My only parting thoughts would be: - make sure your replaced saddle is at hand in case things get too bad (or carbon failure) - make sure you have a think pad in your undergarms
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Post by Paulinblack on May 18, 2015 10:14:41 GMT
A while back I decided that my bike deserved to shed a bit more weight, so looked into various ways of doing so. The best way of shedding weight that I found was to invest £22 in this saddle. The saddle that came with my Canyon was a Fizik Antares (204g), but the new carbon offering is a mere 104g. I know that you're fidgeting thinking about the pain I'm now enduring...well..there isn't any. There's a smidge less give than that of the Antares, but that's also to do with having a stiff frame and aluminium seatpost. I was also concerned about the fact it's off some chap on ebay who has no real quality cycling kit on his shop (incidentally he has no more, but here's the same thing from Hong Kong), but for £22 I'd definitely recommend chancing it. My only parting thoughts would be: - make sure your replaced saddle is at hand in case things get too bad (or carbon failure) - make sure you have a think pad in your undergarms Think pad? Surely if you have to have a laptop in your undergarms it will add loadsa weight?
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 10:39:32 GMT
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Post by bennettkaru on May 18, 2015 11:15:45 GMT
A while back I decided that my bike deserved to shed a bit more weight, so looked into various ways of doing so. The best way of shedding weight that I found was to invest £22 in this saddle. The saddle that came with my Canyon was a Fizik Antares (204g), but the new carbon offering is a mere 104g. I know that you're fidgeting thinking about the pain I'm now enduring...well..there isn't any. There's a smidge less give than that of the Antares, but that's also to do with having a stiff frame and aluminium seatpost. I was also concerned about the fact it's off some chap on ebay who has no real quality cycling kit on his shop (incidentally he has no more, but here's the same thing from Hong Kong), but for £22 I'd definitely recommend chancing it. My only parting thoughts would be: - make sure your replaced saddle is at hand in case things get too bad (or carbon failure) - make sure you have a think pad in your undergarms Think pad? Surely if you have to have a laptop in your undergarms it will add loadsa weight? we all carry smart phones these days!
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 14:42:24 GMT
A while back I decided that my bike deserved to shed a bit more weight, so looked into various ways of doing so. The best way of shedding weight that I found was to invest £22 in this saddle. The saddle that came with my Canyon was a Fizik Antares (204g), but the new carbon offering is a mere 104g. I know that you're fidgeting thinking about the pain I'm now enduring...well..there isn't any. There's a smidge less give than that of the Antares, but that's also to do with having a stiff frame and aluminium seatpost. I was also concerned about the fact it's off some chap on ebay who has no real quality cycling kit on his shop (incidentally he has no more, but here's the same thing from Hong Kong), but for £22 I'd definitely recommend chancing it. My only parting thoughts would be: - make sure your replaced saddle is at hand in case things get too bad (or carbon failure) - make sure you have a think pad in your undergarms I ventured briefly into the carbon saddle quagmire a couple of months ago, (a Bioflex.) Was unable to ride so decided to spend my 'jail time' constructively by splashing some cash on lightening my Mach all that got lightened was my wallet. When I eventually hit the tarmac; well lets just say I wasn't overly impressed. Who known's sometime down the road I may give it another go and fall in love with it?! Finally settled on a Brooks Cambium c17, yes it lightened the wallet a lot more. Right out of the box though unlike it's leather cousins it required no breaking in, feels great and looks at home on the Mach.
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