Best saddle

[Iainj837]

I have a Dawes Galaxy, and would like to change the saddle, I want to start cycle touring.
So I want a comfortable saddle.
Any recommendations

 

[HLaB]

Saddles a very personal things, what works for one person may not work for another. I prefer a narrower saddle with minimal or no cut out but other folk prefer wider saddles or cut outs. FWIW my most comfortable saddles are Fizik Arione.

 

[iandg]

Not the saddle question My favourite is Sella San Marco Regal but everyone is different as to what they find comfortable.

 

[Sharky]

We are all different. It took me about 30 years to find a saddle that l really liked and was happy with and now have the same on all 4 of my bikes. The saddle? Also a San Marco Regal.

But it could have been the 30 years of conditioning my legs that made the saddle comfortable.

 

[Smudge]

The Wittkop saddles that Lidl do on their cycling specials is supremely comfortable imo.

 

[slowmotion]

I've got a couple of Charge Spoons that are just about OK for 80 miles or so. I wouldn't say they are supremely comfortable but they are certainly not instruments of torture.

It's a very bum-specific business.

 

[FrankCrank]

ahh yes, the perennial post about the quest for the least uncomfortable saddle

My 2 favs at the moment are a Brooks B66, and a locally bought no-name one. A huge divide in price, but both equally (un)comfortable.

If you want proper comfort, try a recumbent, anything else is second best......

 

[froze]

Most touring people ride on Brooks B17, and B17 Imperials.

 

[steveindenmark]

This site is improving. We managed 5 replies before Brooks were mentioned 😁

I have 2 Brooks. They are great saddles and I dont use them.

There are other great saddles to be had that are cheaper, lighter and dry quicker than Brooks and need no maintenance. Are they as pretty as Brooks? Probably not.

Go and get a saddle fit and work from there. Thats my advice.

 

[biggs682]

My advice would be selle SMP but that's my preference from using .

Brooks look the part but I just can't get on with them .

 

[Globalti]

Same here, I bought a Brooks Swift on Eblag. It looked lovely but seemed to have been beaten together in a medieval chastity belt factory, weighed a ton and was grossly uncomfortable so I sold it straight on. Charge Knife for me, every time.

 

[CanucksTraveller]

I've got a Brooks B17, a Fizik Aliante (that was done on a saddle fit), a Charge spoon, then several standard saddles that came with the bikes, so a couple of Giants, a Genesis road comfort... and none of them are quite perfect. The Brooks is only just starting to be comfortable and I've had it years, it's probably my most suitable tour saddle.

My wife really likes Selle Italia on any distance ride, so it's completely subjective.

 

[raleighnut]

Most touring people ride on Brooks B17, and B17 Imperials.

Or there is my favourite the B17n (narrow)

1. Of my 6 Brooks' it is the most comfy followed in order by
2. B17n
3. B5n (now obsolete)
4. Swallow Titanium Limited Edition 2004
5. Swift Titanium
6. B17
7. B67s

 

[jay clock]

I have a B17 on the tourer and Charge spoon on several other bikes. For some reason a Spoon on the tourer is less comfy than on road bikes

 

[DRM]

Measure your sit bones, then trawl the internet retailers for saddle widths in your Size range, if you can get to a bike Shop have them do it and make recommendations, they may have demo saddles you can try Before you buy to pin down what suits you, saddles are such a minefield, what I could do 100 miles on, you might not get 2 miles down the road without being in agony, don’t be misled that a wide squishy one is comfy, they’re not!

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