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Old 10-13-2022, 10:18 AM
benb benb is offline
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MTB saddle recommendations

I need a new MTB saddle.

I have a Trek MTB I got this year and it came with a Bontrager saddle... I have tolerated it for 6 months cause as long as I actually use the bike for "serious MTB" I spend a lot of time out of the saddle. But it's too wide and it's not comfortable.

Locally most of the bike shops are aligned with Trek/Specialized/Giant and they only carry those saddles and especially the Trek/Specialized ones will hard sell you on those saddles and also hard sell you that you should be on a 145-155mm saddle no matter what.

I basically need a 130mm saddle that the manufacturers says is safe for MTB, not really looking for anything fancy. Steel rails, durable, doesn't need to be weight weenie. Cutout or no cutout is probably fine.

I used to like the Fizik Tundra but they are not that easily found and seem to be price gouged. They seem to be available direct from Fizik but Fizik doesn't seem to ship to the US. I have long liked the Arione FWIW, those seem to be available but the long tail is too long for out of the saddle riding IMO and even though Fizik seems to claim some of them are safe for MTB I don't really feel like they will hold up.
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