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date: 2015-05-21
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title: Got a New Saddle
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category: cycling
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featured_image: /images/82H3FWFl.jpg
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I recently got myself a new saddle. The one that came with my Felt F95
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was starting to rattle on its rails which was driving me, and my riding
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buddies, insane. We are all engineers, so OCD is a shared problem we
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have.
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Anyway, while scanning through [my favourite non-local bike
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shop](http://www.wiggle.co.uk) I came across the [Selle Italia Q-Bik
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Flow](http://www.selleitalia.com/en/prodotti/road/pagina_sl/), for only
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€15. Buying something as personal as a saddle online is always a risk,
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but I figured that at the price it was not that much of a risk. I
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promptly bought it (along with some new brakes and handlebar tape -
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reviews to come), it arrived on Tuesday and I put it all on that
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evening.
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First, it looks great! I got it in white and it certainly does not look
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like a €15 saddle. I did not weigh it, but it feels light too, so I can
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believe Selle Italia's 280g claim.
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In the last 2 days I have racked up about 100km on it:
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<iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https://www.strava.com/activities/308653151/embed/fc988715669c27f5139068c72dd69f493f874495'></iframe>
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<iframe height='405' width='590' frameborder='0' allowtransparency='true' scrolling='no' src='https://www.strava.com/activities/308117028/embed/5a80110feab45b012a0fe4429ee9b3afddbcae3a'></iframe>
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Plus perhaps ~20km that I did not record.
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I have the impression it sits slightly high on its rails compared to my
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old saddle. Certainly I have had to nudge my seat post down a few
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millimetres. That may also be because the old saddle has sunk however.
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Over all though, it is incredibly comfortable. Firm yes, as any road
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bike saddle is, but by no means painful. After each longer ride, I had
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no numb nuts and could quite happily of carried on. This morning I did
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end up riding over a road that was being prepared for resurfacing - that
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hurt a bit, but that is not really fault of the saddle.
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I am really happy with it. While there are plenty of lighter saddles
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around, they are considerably more expensive. For the price there is
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nothing I can complain about that would not be totally unreasonable.
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