Perineum friendly saddle
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I'm sorry - but no matter how comfy that saddle may be, I would never let it touch my bike! I just couldn't handle looking like some special needs kid cycling along on it. :oops:
(Not that you do, but you can see my point - it looks a little to odd for me. My saddle looks odd, but at least it's still a racing saddle and does the same job. To each their own....)[/quote]
Comfortable in my "special needs" skin
Even more comfortable on my bike!
Interestingly other club members have taken different routes to save the perineum. Two on Selle SMP's another on an Adamo - and these are damn good riders. Looking at the designs I don't think either has as good shock absorbing qualities for the sit bones as the Rido R2; but this is purely my opinion. They're also about five times the price!
The problem at base is that the starting point for the design of a bicycle saddle was the saddle for a horse - quite different demands. What I like about the Rido is that the design wasn't contrained by this pre-conceived idea of what a saddle should look like. The two criteria appear to have been 1, No contact with the perineum and 2, Comfort for the sit bones. For me the R2 does both magnificently.
The more bling-orientated members of the club with flashy-looking razors underneath their behinds don't usually get close enough to laugh. Even if they do, they're usually in too much pain (ego as well as lungs and legs) to muster so much as a giggle.
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I used to suffer from numbess on sportive and long rides on my Arione saddles. I changed to the selle italia gel flow and problem sorted.
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