I What are you doing? We took my salads. Oh, we're filming a part of the Tuesdays. All right You got a bunch of saddles here which one is the best for road cycling which one's the best for me this one? I'm not riding that the role of a saddle It on a bicycle is to essentially support you stabilize your pelvis We usually look into engage sit bones or a show people around my sometimes both which will depend on your pelvic orientation your pelvic orientation I Whether it's anterior or I'd like this or posterior or tated or rather whether it's neutral will determine To a certain extent which saddle shape or what best for you also determine whether or not you need Whether you'll need a pressure relief channel. So not everybody need a pressure relief channel And I say pressure relief channel I'm talking about the whole it's car the middle which is intended to Offload soft tissue you're quite a little studies to talk about Sturidity rectil dysfunction and and nastier things however if you have Some source of pelvic rotation like a physiological pelvic rotation or a lack of pelvic tilt This saddle is not going to be comfortable for you because inevitably you will sit Pissed you're set off to one side of me is that your soft tissue will miss that relief channel How do you know if you've got something like that? That's the problem because actually right a sit Off to one side for a million and one reason so it can be insufficient for the sport for it can be excessive salivide Be excessive reach It could be Soft tissue pressure in the first place quite a lot of people riding a saddle like this or Sit the skew is a means of trying to make themselves comfortable to give you an idea 75% of people that leave this room leave with something like this. This is a pro riff and it's a it's a rip off of the Specialized two-page for a similar saddle. I get very very little success with flatter saddles that Lack of pressure relief channel Most because they tend to promote austere rotation of the pelvis in English Roll the van sitting with your pelvis like this which tends to be pretty good for glutes in this one The rider has to roll their hips back as a means of uploading that which generates and promotes excesses spinal flexion which frankly isn't good for you So common is this compensation that a certain saddle brand has developed marketing and saddle selection system and strategy It's called spine concept we were I mentioned here was Developed by if you're watching this video you're probably you know watching it with Intent to try and find what's going to be a saddle for you and that kind of leaves the question Why are you looking at a new saddle in the first place and most people look at a new saddle because they're in some form of discomfort now One thing that I absolutely must iterate is that saddle discomfort does not come from sellers For the most part it comes from bad positions So things like saddle source for example you do not get as a result of certain saddles There will be certain saddles that will help alleviate the symptoms But for the most part saddle source occur because of an asymmetrical interaction with the bicycle Which is probably why it's always getting saddles on one side and not both sides If you're getting on both sides in a major position is extremely bad I think as a good starting point if you're thinking about a new saddle something like this Program and actually specialize make yourself with the toupee Bontro can mess it makes saddle with the Montrose something like that which I find With relatively flat has a reasonable pressure relief channel part of it They do come in different widths. I have to say Although 75% of people leave on actually this saddle quite a lot of my customers leave on this saddle And they leave on a 142 the 152 With tends to be a little bit too wide that is Kind of what's fundamentally wrong with the saddle fitting systems that we tend to see out there out in the world They usually derive or driven by measuring sitbone width and frankly sitbone width I've come to find doesn't really have that much now sin in in in saddle selection. I guess one Very very popular Concept that we've come across over the last five six years is the nose with saddle it's a design philosophy I'm having increasing difficulty with because of the excessive width of the rear portion of the saddle tested to ride rise to the nose of the saddle This is a problem because the nose doesn't exist. They are marketed as a means of enabling you to adopt the more aerodynamic position Now if you're racing that's true because you can get a nose of the saddle further forward on the bracket Which whilst still adhering to the UCI's five-centimeter rule by the nose of the saddle has to be at least five centimeters behind the bottom bracket if you're a an average Joe Frankly, you shouldn't be trying to push your saddle further forward because all it's doing is putting all We're waiting to the front of the bike the pro stealth the specialized power Pro-Lugger dimension all of these kind of noseless salads. I and sorry to call a few out But I'm really struggling to get good results with Particularly with normal everyday cyclists what you have to understand is that when these companies use professional cyclists as a mechanism to So you stuff They're doing it wrong because frankly professionals like this don't buy any of this stuff They get given it at actually more importantly they get paid to ride whether Chris Froome rides it or not is irrelevant. It's not you are not Chris Froome The noseless saddle thing I'm not saying it doesn't work But I'm having increasing difficulty with it. I vastly I get a hell of a lot more success With a traditional flat saddle occasionally I get guys to come in with one of these on a road bike These are great sells I actually I actively sell them to the right person on the right bike. This is an ISM PM 3.1. This is the new saddle from my I said, but this is a time trial and trial on saddle and this is intended to Load a different part of the pelvis particularly in the airshort here around my which is further forward on the pelvis And it's designed to be written in a more anterior rotated State this is potentially quite an unpopular statement. I would go as far as to say that This saddle doesn't really have any place on a road bike It doesn't support the pelvis sufficiently on a conventional bicycle that I find it's the only saddle system or the only saddle design that you can run too high And seemingly not get genital problems. This is usually the last ditch attempt from riders to alleviate genital armless When they haven't considered the position of the bike in the first place So you know if you're riding a saddle like this and you're still getting numbness There's a problem. It's nothing to do with the saddle You should really be getting your position looked at so yeah, something like this You shouldn't be having to resort to this it really is only for trial for on time trial This is just the tip of the iceberg There's there's too much information regarding saddles to Put into one video, but if you have questions regarding saddle 13 just put it in the comments below and we'll do our best to answer them and subscribe for more And subscribe for more