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Budget Saddle for female beginner

  • 29-09-2013 05:00PM
    #1
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭


    Hey Guys,

    Looking for a narrower saddle for my wife's learner bike, keeping it cheap as I'm hoping to get her a bike to fall in love with next year (she never learned to ride a bike when she was a kid so it took a while for her to get to the point where she wanted her own bike) she was using the fairly narrow roadbike style saddle from my Escape until recently when I switched back to the Specialized saddle on her Sirrus after replacing the seatpost.

    Today was her first time on the original saddle and she found the padding too much as it felt to her like she was rolling around on the saddle as she turned the cranks.

    I've been looking at things like the Bianchi vl-1166 and the Charge Bucket, but I want to be sure that they aren't going to be more of the same.

    Edit: I don't think hour plus spins are going to be on the menu for the forseeable so short range comfort is the goal.

    Ps: Was thinking of getting her an Avail or Defy fitted with Crosstop levers and Tiagra in the first half of next year as something that she can be comfortable commuting on that won't leave her having to make another hefty investment if she decides she wants to join a club or accompany me on spins. Does this sound rational? Cycling is my heroin and while Mrs Rollingscone is developing an interest I don't want to put her off with the force of my fanaticism.


Comments

  • #2
    cdaly_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,440 ✭✭✭cdaly_


    A nice Brooks leather saddle will be a good middle ground between the hard(ish) road saddle and the soft padded one. Also an investment for life. Around EUR80 though...


  • #3
    nak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭nak


    Haven't met any women who choose to use a Brooks saddle. Not for me anyway. Personal choice, Selle Italia Diva gel (?) is very popular, as are Specialized saddles. I have a Specialized Oura (women's) and a Romin (men's) on my bikes. You can try them out, which is good.

    Why the crosstop levers if you don't mind me asking?


  • #4
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    nak wrote: »
    Haven't met any women who choose to use a Brooks saddle. Not for me anyway. Personal choice, Selle Italia Diva gel (?) is very popular, as are Specialized saddles. I have a Specialized Oura (women's) and a Romin (men's) on my bikes. You can try them out, which is good.

    Why the crosstop levers if you don't mind me asking?

    Because she isn't comfortable with drops yet, and finds the idea of having brakes on top to be comforting. Thank Giant for putting that idea out there. It's more psychological than anything, but if it gets her comfortable on the bike without having to go through more dramatic changes...


  • #5
    nak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,538 ✭✭✭nak


    From personal experience, I wasn't comfortable on the drops initially because my handlebars had too long a reach for my wee hands. This is the case with a lot of women I have met. Led to poor descending technique on the hoods, which made me quite nervous. New bars (FSA Omega) and I was able to use the drops comfortably.


  • #6
    rollingscone
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,479 ✭✭✭rollingscone


    nak wrote: »
    From personal experience, I wasn't comfortable on the drops initially because my handlebars had too long a reach for my wee hands. This is the case with a lot of women I have met. Led to poor descending technique on the hoods, which made me quite nervous. New bars (FSA Omega) and I was able to use the drops comfortably.

    Mrs RS is around 182cm so I think she'll be okay for reach subject to finding a bike that's a good fit.

    That said I know my best chance for success is to make the bike as comfortable as possible so I'll be looking at things like that when we're shopping for a bike.


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