Saddles

You can spend £3,000 on wheels and still lose the plot because of a 160-gram wedge of foam. Road racing saddles quietly decide whether you stay tucked and fast for three hours or spend the last hour wriggling like you’re sat on a bag of marbles. Nobody mentions this in the bike shop: a saddle … Read more

Picture mile 40 of a lovely Sunday ride. The sun’s out, your legs feel good, the playlist is on a roll. Then a pins-and-needles fizz creeps in somewhere it really shouldn’t. Welcome to the club nobody wants to join. The good news is that choosing the right saddle for numbness cycling is one of the … Read more

Ask a room full of cyclists what ruins a long ride and you’ll hear the same groan: the saddle. Road bike saddles are the one component that carries your weight for hours on end, so a bad match turns a glorious 60-miler into a fidgety, wince-inducing slog. Get it right, though, and you forget the … Read more