Saddleback 2016 – Astute

Saddle makers Astute aren’t perhaps the loudest shouters in the mountain bike market – they make *very* chi-chi saddles for road bikes mostly, but that might all be about to change with the new MUD.
It’s a protoytype at this stage, with a reinforced (and slightly less pointy, compared to their road offerings) back for easy dropping and less scuffage on what will be a high end saddle.Size-wise they’re going for curvature rather than flat-out width, but this one is apparently 132mm wide.
You can see the curve a bit more in this slightly arty (out of focus) shot.
It’ll be available with carbon rails like this for around £180, or…in a Ti alloy railed version for around £110, in a variety of colour options.

More details of the range (bot not this one yet, it’s a prototype) from Saddleback

Barney Marsh

Barney Marsh takes the word ‘career’ literally, veering wildly across the road of his life, as thoroughly in control as a goldfish on the dashboard of a motorhome. He’s been, with varying degrees of success, a scientist, teacher, shop assistant, binman and, for one memorable day, a hospital laundry worker. These days, he’s a dad, husband, guitarist, and writer, also with varying degrees of success. He sometimes takes photographs. Some of them are acceptable. Occasionally he rides bikes to cast the rest of his life into sharp relief. Or just to ride through puddles. Sometimes he writes about them. Bikes, not puddles. He is a writer of rongs, a stealer of souls and a polisher of turds. He isn’t nearly as clever or as funny as he thinks he is.

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