Product Description
The goal of ultra lightweight construction is fully achieved in the SLR. Just 160 grams with nothing sacrificed in terms of technical specifications. Thanks to a combination of features including carbon shell, padding fashioned from EVA (closed-cell foam weighing only 5 grams), and a featherweight tubular Titanium rail that weighs just 45 grams.
SIZE 275 X 139 MM (lxw)WEIGHT 95(grams +-8%)
RAIL Tubolar Titanium
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fatfrogracer
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: October 14, 2005
Strengths: Good, solid support, no squishy feeling or pressure in delicate areas.Weaknesses: The cheesy simu-carbon paint they used to cover the natural beauty of carbon.Bottom Line: This is for the older 125g SLR carbon saddle. WOW! As soon as I sat on this thing I knew it was the saddle for me! I've ridden on many different saddles, loved some, hated some, and this one is the best I've ever had! I thought that it would be hard, uncomfortable, and take a while to get used to, but I was wrong! It feels like sitting on nothing at all, like you kind of float above the bike. Not pressure on those sensitive areas, no numbness, just support. This one is a keeper
Favorite Ride: Any ride with my son
Price Paid:
$75.00
Purchased At: E-Bay
Similar Products Used: No other carbon saddles used
Bike Setup: Wilier Izoard
Chorus group
Nuke tubulars
Velocarbon superlight seatpost
Italian everything...this bike bleeds spaghetti sauce!
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dorfus
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: May 18, 2005
Strengths: Believe it or not it the most comfortable saddle that I have used. I am not a seasoned veteran with years of road riding either. I certainly would not describe my buttocks as being tough. I used it for a six and half hour ride on the weekend and my butt didn't get sore until the last half hour. I experienced no numbness either.Weaknesses: Not that I have noticedBottom Line: Wow I love it. Very light!!
Favorite Ride: 1999 Giant Compact Road
Price Paid:
$78.00
Purchased At: eBay.com
Similar Products Used: Selle italia flight ti; Bontrager with ti rails and carbon and kevlar; wilderness trail bikes saddle as came OEM on '98 Gary Fisher Mountain bikes (the WORST saddle ever!!); some other crummy/ flexy saddle I inherited from the previous owner
Bike Setup: 1999 Giant Compact Road, full Ultegra with Dura ace STIs, SLR saddle, cheap/heavy 32 spoke clinchers.
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red serotta
a Recreational Rider
from Date Reviewed: December 11, 2004
Strengths: Did I mention it looks cool? I'm allowed to say 1194 more words, but that's it.Weaknesses: Weaknesses? Where it connects to your bike and to your butt. If your butt is a weakness, you'll soon find out.Bottom Line: If saddles were like shoes, this saddle would be the stiletto high heels of shoe-dom. Looks cool, feels like an instrument of torture. But it looks so cool...
In the good old days we rode hard leather saddles and they were terrific. After time the leather would form to your backside's shape and it would feel perfect - when you sold your bike, you kept the saddle, sort of like pedals today. Well, carbon fiber is definately NOT leather.
I normally ride a "padded" SLR with no problem, so I thought I'd give this carbon thing a try 'cause it looks so cool. But from the outset, this thing felt wierd. Slippery at first, it soon became sticky and just felt rock hard at that point. I started to get lower back pains, something I never got with the SLR.
The other day the saddle broke - it's a long story, don't ask. I'm shopping for a new saddle now...a regular SLR with that thin layer of padding. Stiletto's are not my thing, I guess.
Favorite Ride: The Loop
Price Paid:
$200.00
Purchased At: ebay
Similar Products Used: About the whole Selle Italia line-up at one time or another. Where ever my body meets my bike, I make sure it's from Italy.
Bike Setup: Serotta Titanium with Campy Record and all the best stiletto looking stuff.
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Robike
a Road Racer
from Date Reviewed: June 29, 2004
Strengths: I have the seat all the way forward on the rails. Things creak (210 lbs), things flex. Things do not break.
125 grams!Weaknesses: See above - me thinks the seat doth creak too much, but I do abuse it.
I got the seat with the 10 grams of padding on it. I ride a lot. The padding eventually rubbed off - sort of like when the terminator walked out of the fire with just his shiny alloy skeleton left.
While I like the firm carbon support, I'm starting to look around for a grooved carbon seat with a "love channel" or some such thing.Bottom Line: I was leary of the minimal padding, but went ahead and bought it anyways because I had alreadly lost all the fat I could loose.
Why on earth do I think the thing is comfortable? As I see it, there are two load bearing bones in our arse (approximately). With this saddle, that is where the load goes. This took a week or so for my 210 lb (tall) self to get used to. I realize now that previous saddles, with all their foam, were supporting my weight, with their fluffiness, all over the place - places that God did not intend for weight to be supported...
Favorite Ride: long
Price Paid:
$79.00
Purchased At: Excel Sports
Similar Products Used: Various cheap and expensive padded saddles.
Bike Setup: Cannondale
Dura Ace
Lots of spokes
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Steve
a Recreational Rider
from River ValleyDate Reviewed: May 30, 2003
Strengths: Light (obviously)
Comfortable
Nobody wants to "try the bike"Weaknesses: Scratches easily
Expensive
Only one optimum clamping position
Presses against sit-bones when you sit uprightBottom Line: I've tried some saddles with lots of padding before and they hurt like hell! When you first get on this baby, the first 3 minutes can be like "What the ($&# did I get this for?" Then, as your ass adjusts to it, you don't realize you're sitting on a chunk of unpadded carbon anymore. In fact, the only time you remember it's there is when you dismount at the end of the ride. Part of the genius of its design is also its weakness...the saddle flexes ever so slightly where it curves outward from the base of the nose. It's this flex that gives when the rider is seated on it, bending like a cobra's fangs to allow some measure of comfort. BUT it only works if the rails are clamped at the middle to provide the leverage. This can limit the fore-aft adjustability of the saddle and hence affect the fit of your bike. Definitely a try before you buy proposition.
Favorite Ride: Long Steep Climbs
Price Paid:
$100.00
Purchased At: second hand
Similar Products Used: saddles from Specialized, Fizik, Koobi, etc
Bike Setup: yes, it's already set-up.
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