If you want to be beautiful, you have to suffer, they say. If you want to be as light as possible, so do you. Because with the last few superfluous grams, the comfort-boosting padding usually disappears from the saddle. What remains is a few millimetres of thin carbon shell that doesn't even bother to look comfortable.
The carbon structure of the saddles allows for flex
Only Selle Italia gives its SLR a spartan layer of padding. But this is only made for narrow bums. AX-Lightness and Crown Saddle are less sloping at the sides. This widens the effective seat surface. Although the fluffy Alcantara cover on the Graf Ludwig II conceals the elegant visible carbon fibre, it not only noticeably increases seating comfort, but also the grip on the saddle. The covers from Mileba and Tune are more of an ornament than a comfort dispenser. At least the saddle design can still be integrated into the overall tuning picture. Nevertheless, the two are not uncomfortable. Their carbon structure allows a certain amount of flex. Well-integrated sit bones should also be able to cope with longer distances. Only the bulging seam that runs across the Tune saddle cover is not an ideal solution.
You can find these five carbon saddle models in the test:
- AX-Lightness Leaf
- Crown Saddle Count Ludwig II
- Mileba customised saddle
- Selle Italia SLR Tekno Flow
- Tune Komm-Vor two-coloured
You can find the complete test of carbon saddles for mountain bikers below as a free PDF download.
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Stefan Frey
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