Cobb saddles

littledove44

Anyone tried one of these?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cobb-Cycling- ... 5d477584ce

Seems very narrow to me. Only 130mm wide at the rear.

ai_1

I've tried the Cobb V-Flow Plus. This looks very similar. I quite liked it but it took a little getting used to. They're more like Adamo saddles than conventional saddles so I wouldn't compare the dimensions to conventional saddles.
I think the Cobb website has advice on fitting. www.bike-science.co.uk do trials of the Cobb and Adamo saddles.

styxd

littledove44 wrote:

Anyone tried one of these?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cobb-Cycling- ... 5d477584ce

Seems very narrow to me. Only 130mm wide at the rear.

130mm is particurlarly narrow, most manufacturers produce saddles in the 130mm range.

ai_1

styxd wrote:

littledove44 wrote:

Anyone tried one of these?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cobb-Cycling- ... 5d477584ce

Seems very narrow to me. Only 130mm wide at the rear.

130mm is particurlarly narrow, most manufacturers produce saddles in the 130mm range.

As above, the Cobb V-flow saddles aren't quite the same shape as most conventional saddles so I think comparison to other conventional saddles might be misleading. You'll notice they're a rather triangular shape rather than the typical long narrow nose and flared sit bone area. I've tried the V-Flow Plus which is also 130mm wide at the widest point. It was plenty wide enough for me and I take a 155mm in Specialised Romin saddles.

meesterbond

I've got a V-Flow Max (I think it's that model) which I use for TTs.
It's pretty comfortable and fairly heavily padded but very particular about the angle it's set up at - a tiny bit out and it's agony / unusable. There also feels like there's too much padding at the front - too much between your thighs, so to speak. As you tend to be more over the nose of it most of the time, the fairly narrow rear doesn't bother me - I'd usually go for something around 145mm

ai_1

meesterbond wrote:

I've got a V-Flow Max (I think it's that model) which I use for TTs.
It's pretty comfortable and fairly heavily padded but very particular about the angle it's set up at - a tiny bit out and it's agony / unusable. There also feels like there's too much padding at the front - too much between your thighs, so to speak. As you tend to be more over the nose of it most of the time, the fairly narrow rear doesn't bother me - I'd usually go for something around 145mm

That pretty much describes my opinion of the Plus version. I did like it and did some century rides on it without any problems but it did have a slight overly wide feeling in more upright positions.