I'm pretty close to ordering one despite never having paid $250 for a saddle in 35 years of cycling. With a 90 day return policy, if it is not awesome then you lose nothing.
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Shaun wrote:Just wondering if anyone has any experience with the bisaddle adjustable saddles?
My wife's Quintanoo Roo PR SIX2 came with one. It was problematic. The seat wouldn't hold adjustment. It was also asymmetrical. I could move the left side farther than I could move the right side.The design of the seat uses friction to hold adjustment. Interlocking teeth would do a much better job. It may have been a defective seat, but that means QC failed. It was a disappointment.
Well I decided to pull the trigger and get one. I spent quite a bit of time looking at reviews, and other than the one above, they were all positive. The website has a "saddle finder" series of questions and it recommends the SRT 2.0 for gravel riding. I placed the order on Tuesday and the saddle was here on Friday. That afternoon I used the enclosed cardboard and crayon to do the sit bone measurement. Mine measured out at 12 cm. According to the instructions, I added 3 cm to that because I like riding on the hoods most often. So I set the back of the saddle to 15 cm. The recommendations is to set the front of the saddle as wide as you can without getting rubbing on the inside of your thighs. So I set it pretty wide. The pad is a little thicker, so i had to lower my seat mast a little bit. I set my saddle rails at level which leaves the seat just slightly tipped forward. Took a ride around the block.....one quick adjustment of moving the saddle slightly forward. I've now put 40 miles on the saddle and I love it! It really seems to disappear under my butt. After 20 miles I moved it slightly more forward and moved the seat mast slightly lower, but I haven't felt the need to adjust the saddle itself. I can truly feel it matches my sit bones. The pad is thicker than most saddles but it is a very firm pad, feels really nice. I'm loving the snub nose.....makes riding in the drops more comfortable. I had been struggling with sit bone area pain, I had gotten a sela anatomica which was comfortable, but I didn't like the flex in the seat while pedaling, the fact that it was so long and it needed to be set nose up, and I couldn't get it to stop squeaking. So far this one seems a winner.
I'm going to piggyback on your review and give some feedback on my experience. My saddle came on wednesday and I tinkered with it for three or four hours and rode about an hour during that time. Initially, I did not think it was going to work out for me because the padding was either thinner or more firm than I prefer (I'm pretty bony and minimal padded seats have never worked for me). After a couple of days I started to realize that since it was not like other saddles, I needed to sit on it differently. In the past, I either sat at the back on my sit bones or tipped forward on the pointy part of the saddle and rested on the pelvic bridge to the left when I was aero. With the bisaddle cutout and shape you can just lean forward a bit so you are using your sit bones and the pelvic bridge on both sides of your perenium and reproductive parts. I took it out for a loooong climbing day yesterday (6:40 and 12,000 feet of climbing) and it was a rousing success. Bisaddle recommends a slightly nose-down orientation which I never like before but which works for this saddle. I especially liked it for steep climbing where the bike is tipped back towards you and you tend to lean forward. I had some soreness from the newness of the position but none of the sit bone/perenium numbness.
Plus, they have a 90 day return policy so it is hard to lose out on trying this saddle if you are not good with what you have.