Bought a bike fitted with a brand new Fizik Gobi… Tried it on a ride, really didn't get on with it. So messed around with saddle height and angles etc just to see if I had got something awry, rode it again, only compounded the fact I think it has to be the most uncomfortable saddle I've ever tried! And some people love them!
Anyway, bought another Charge Spoon (cromo railed) to replace it… The Spoon just seems the right shape to me. Sure, they're firm and they don't flex much (maybe the ti railed does flex a bit more than the cromo perhaps), but the shape manages not to put an undue amount of pressure on any of my pressure points, it seems to manage to spread my weight out nice and evenly across a large surface area, not creating any hot spots. With the Gobi I felt like I was sitting on a knife blade after 10 minutes, no support at all either side of the centre ridge!
The only other saddle I get on with, and it's quite a different shape again, is the SDG Bel Air. I think the Bel Air wins the outright comfort stakes for me because it flexes more, but the shape is a pig to hang your arse off the back of as I snag my shorts on the way back, and invariably unless the terrain is totally flat, I can't get back on the bloody saddle once going off the back! Spoon wins out here by miles as it's very easy to get on and off it.
