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THE SEAT ERGO GEL/LYCRA BLACK SADDLE

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THE SEAT ERGO GEL/LYCRA BLACK SADDLE Ride in healthy comfort No pain No more numb butt Ride safe/ scotchliteTM reflectors on backSeat post not included.

List Price:	$54.18
Our Price:	$34.98
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Product Details

Product Length:	5.5 inches
Product Width:	9.0 inches
Product Height:	3.0 inches
Product Weight:	1.06 pounds
Package Length:	8.6 inches
Package Width:	5.9 inches
Package Height:	3.1 inches
Package Weight:	1.05 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 80 reviews

Customer Reviews

Average Customer Review: 4.0

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271 of 273 found the following review helpful:

A real solution to a real problem but at a price. Feb 15, 2006 By young scientist
Having had prior experience with nerve injury and having some familiarity with anatomy I do take the danger of cycling inflicted nerve and vascular injury seriously. Often such damage is just compression nerve injury which reverses itself in a matter of days or weeks, but there is also the real possibility of more serious damage to the nerves or local artherosclerosis which does not normally heal by itself. Possible symptoms are tingling, loss of sensation, erectile dysfunction and even urinary continence problems. The risk is probably more serious for men than for women. There is also very little that medicine can do for you in these cases.

Studies show that some of the ergonomic saddles on the market with cut-outs of various designs cases can in some cases actually make the risk of injury greater, but concentrating pressure on a smaller area than conventional saddles. Only noseless saddles like this one can really eliminate the danger by entirely tranferring the weight from the perineum to the buttocks.

I ride regularly and intensively (80-90 minutes a day) in crazy Manhattan. Here are my observations.

1. This saddle is not only safer than conventional saddles, but also more comfortable. I had not realized that my previous saddle was causing me discomfort until I started using this one and found that it was a more pleasant experience.

2. It takes a few weeks to get used to this saddle. At the beginning it felt like somebody kept trying to push me off the bike. After a while it feels perfectly natural.

3. There is a reason that most saddles have a nose. Correcting the alignment of your bike by pushing on the nose from the side with your thighs has a more important role in controlling a bike than most people realize. Without the nose some of the gracefulness and manouverability is gone. I ride a mountain bike and I am often heavily loaded with bags, etc., so I don't exactly swoop through the streets, anyway. On a road bike or natural terrain this might be a forbidding problem, though.

4. Using a noselss saddle considerable weight is transferred from the saddle to the handlebars. This in turn leads to an increased risk of injury to the hands, wrist and arms. I recommend using cycling gloves, preferably the gel type. My feeling is that this sort of injury i smore likely to be noticed early and has a better chance of being reversed than damage to the perineum.

5. Related to the previous point, unless the road surface is very even and I am going straight and at a moderate pace, it does not feel safe to take either hand off the handlebars, which means that I cannot give hand signals in traffic anymore. This is perhaps the most serious problem I have with this saddle. Have to be very careful when changing lanes.

6. I found that the patches at the back are not truly retroreflective, so I taped them over with reflective tape.

Overall, this is a product well worth considering, but unless you buy one and try it out, you won't know whether it is a viable solution given your particular riding style and anatomy.

44 of 46 found the following review helpful:

A female perspective Jul 15, 2007 By Sharon W
Hard to believe, but females have parts that are sensitive to bike seat horns too.... So I bought this seat and I love it! No more pressure, no more UTI's. It took me all of 30 seconds to get used to it and I'm having no problems with balance. The only tiny, tiny drawback that I can see is that every so often I have to scootch myself backwards on the seat because I've slid forward a bit. But I was doing that on my old seat even more frequently to try to relieve the pressure from the horn. All in all, a great choice if you want to do without the horn.

25 of 25 found the following review helpful:

Upgrade any ordinary bike to Luxury Edition with "The Seat" Jun 13, 2007 By Shaun Battick
Recently I started cycling to get some exercise. However, three weeks into my program saw me rushing to the doctor because of "trauma" to my groin area because of the traditional saddle. My doctor advised me to change the saddle and use padded cycle shorts. I read the reviews on "The Seat" and decided to give it a try. This was definately one of my better buying decisions.

After installing on my bike and taking a ride around the block, the comfort I felt was amazing. It was like moving from an old jalopy to a spanking new Mercedes. No pain; no pain medication needed.

That being said, it took me about 30 minutes to get adjusted to the new feel. It was a bit harder to balance and a little tricky when removing a hand from the handle.

Now that I've taken a few rides around the community, I'm definately sold; there's no going back to an ordinary saddle. The build quality of "THE SEAT' is exceptional as well and does a good job of cushioning the ill effects of bad road surfaces. Forget padded cycle shorts; any normal shorts will do!

29 of 30 found the following review helpful:

Fixes the original pain, but brings its own for me Sep 16, 2007 By J. D. K. Jr "John"
"The Seat" does completely eliminate the normal discomfort of the "horn" digging into your rear.

However, after two 90-minute rides, I think I need to get something else. After a while it causes a sharp pain on one side where my bottom makes contact with the seat, so that after about half an hour I can't think about much else. And it really pushes me forward so that I am leaning heavily on my handlebars (which are raised to the maximum height). Padded gloves help, but it's not enough.

Then again, I do have a variety of nerve problems in my body (but none observed before in the place on my rear where I get the pain with The Seat), so for most people it could be fine.

I'm going to try another traditional style seat, with more padding than the skinny/hard one one that came with my bike.

20 of 20 found the following review helpful:

Great seat - but breaks easily Mar 19, 2011 By S. A. Sunderwirth
My wife and I have been using this saddle for 10 years on our tandem bikes. We love the fit. However, of the 11 saddles of this type we have had, 4 have broken in the last year. The rails have been breaking at the bend joints without warning. This is a catastrophic failure on long ride and therefore we cannot recommend this seat. I contacted ERGO about the failures and they said that they had only had 2 previous failures in 200,000 seats sold. They offered to replace the broken seats. I sent them the first 3 broken seats and after 6 months and a further complaint, they sent me one back. The fourth seat (only 6 months old) broke a few days later. When I reported that to ERGO, they told me to pound sand.

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