After a new saddle as mine is a bit knackered. Any recommendations? Currently use a Gobi.

SLR's any good off road? How about carbon rails? Do they increase comfort or just for weight loss?

Cheers

J

I run SLRs on my XC-ey bikes. Find them fine. Wouldn't bother with carbon rails myself – the Ti ones always seem to break eventually, so I would expect carbon ones to last less time.

Saddles are very much a personal choice though. If you have a Flite shaped arse, then you should find an SLR will work OK.

Light? I-beam I-Fly

If you're interested in the SLR, I'd suggest getting the older version of the SLR XC like this: –

The leather is thicker than the standard road version and the kevlar corners are worth having. I have XCs on two mountain bikes and they're great. The standard one on my road bike tore really easily, just leaning it against a wall.

Yes I used to wear through the cover on SLRs in about 4 months.

Phenom SL isn't quite as light, but is substantially more comfortable IMO. Otherwise wait for the new Toupe Carbon SL, looks very nice.

if you want really light have a look on poshbike.com sub 100 grams saddles for the seroius weight weenie, every time i look at that sight I feel my credit card weep!

It's very much down to personal taste though. I have a Phenom on my cross bike and don't like it at all. Very little flex and the nose is really wide and flat.

As gf, it's entirely personal though I like phenoms and toupes though I've found the toupe too hard for long days on the bike (road and mtb)