Ergo The Seat Ultimate Bicycle Saddle

by Ergo

Product Features

• Innovative, horn-less bicycle saddle designed to eliminate pain and numbness
• Moving rider's weight to the sit-bones and pressure off soft tissues and organs
• Lycra-covered soft gel seat for increased cushioning
• Standard rail-mount fits most seat posts without additional hardware or adapters
• 30-day satisfaction guarantee

Product Description

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The Seat Ultimate Bicycle Saddle offers an innovative design that removes pressure from the groin and soft tissues and moves your weight back to your sits bones for an improved riding position. The Seat's ergonomic design eliminates the protruding horn or nose found on conventional bicycle seats, providing a significantly more comfortable and healthy ride. Anyone who has ridden on a traditional bike seat has most likely experienced a combination of numbness, bone pain, and tenderness during and/or after riding. By removing the horn, the Seat ensures that circulation will not be interrupted during your ride, and also reduces pain-causing pressure points. The Seat Ultimate model offers even greater comfort with a lycra-covered soft shell seat for more cushioning.

The Seat's hornless design takes pressure off of soft tissues and eliminates nerve compression.

Product Description

A lycra-covered soft gel seat for ultimate, cushioned comfort.The SEAT takes the pressure off soft tissues and tender organs and lets you sit where you are supposed to sit on your sit bones". The SEATs innovative, ergonomic design eliminates the protruding horn or nose found on conventional bicycle seats, providing a significantly more comfortable and healthy ride. For many people, buying a new bike also means shopping for a more comfortable seat. Traditional bike saddles cut off circulation, leading to discomfort and, in some cases, sexual dysfunction. Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 3.5 inches (23 x 15 x 9cm). Fits any standard, conventional rail-mount bicycle [Note: "stationary" exercise bikes, must have conventional rail-mounts for proper installation] . 3-M Scotchlite rear reflectors are standard for added safety. Lightweight, 14 oz. design (0.4 kg) . Easy installation and adjustment "Sit-bone" based support. Healthy, comfortable ride.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 9 x 3 inches ; 1.1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000AO7MKM
• Item model number: 01000-9
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,267 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)
  • #22 in Sports & Outdoors > Bikes & Accessories > Components & Parts > Saddles

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

261 of 262 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A real solution to a real problem but at a price., February 15, 2006

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young scientist (New York, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ergo The Seat Ultimate Bicycle Saddle (Sports)

Having had prior experience with nerve injury and having some familiarity with anatomy I do take the danger of cycling inflicted nerve and vascular injury seriously. Often such damage is just compression nerve injury which reverses itself in a matter of days or weeks, but there is also the real possibility of more serious damage to the nerves or local artherosclerosis which does not normally heal by itself. Possible symptoms are tingling, loss of sensation, erectile dysfunction and even urinary continence problems. The risk is probably more serious for men than for women. There is also very little that medicine can do for you in these cases.

Studies show that some of the ergonomic saddles on the market with cut-outs of various designs cases can in some cases actually make the risk of injury greater, but concentrating pressure on a smaller area than conventional saddles. Only noseless saddles like this one can really eliminate the danger by entirely tranferring the weight from the perineum to the buttocks.

I ride regularly and intensively (80-90 minutes a day) in crazy Manhattan. Here are my observations.

1. This saddle is not only safer than conventional saddles, but also more comfortable. I had not realized that my previous saddle was causing me discomfort until I started using this one and found that it was a more pleasant experience.

2. It takes a few weeks to get used to this saddle. At the beginning it felt like somebody kept trying to push me off the bike. After a while it feels perfectly natural.

3. There is a reason that most saddles have a nose. Correcting the alignment of your bike by pushing on the nose from the side with your thighs has a more important role in controlling a bike than most people realize. Without the nose some of the gracefulness and manouverability is gone. I ride a mountain bike and I am often heavily loaded with bags, etc., so I don't exactly swoop through the streets, anyway. On a road bike or natural terrain this might be a forbidding problem, though.

4. Using a noselss saddle considerable weight is transferred from the saddle to the handlebars. This in turn leads to an increased risk of injury to the hands, wrist and arms. I recommend using cycling gloves, preferably the gel type. My feeling is that this sort of injury i smore likely to be noticed early and has a better chance of being reversed than damage to the perineum.

5. Related to the previous point, unless the road surface is very even and I am going straight and at a moderate pace, it does not feel safe to take either hand off the handlebars, which means that I cannot give hand signals in traffic anymore. This is perhaps the most serious problem I have with this saddle. Have to be very careful when changing lanes.

6. I found that the patches at the back are not truly retroreflective, so I taped them over with reflective tape.

Overall, this is a product well worth considering, but unless you buy one and try it out, you won't know whether it is a viable solution given your particular riding style and anatomy.

40 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A female perspective, July 15, 2007

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Sharon W (Atlantic Beach, NC) - See all my reviews

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Hard to believe, but females have parts that are sensitive to bike seat horns too.... So I bought this seat and I love it! No more pressure, no more UTI's. It took me all of 30 seconds to get used to it and I'm having no problems with balance. The only tiny, tiny drawback that I can see is that every so often I have to scootch myself backwards on the seat because I've slid forward a bit. But I was doing that on my old seat even more frequently to try to relieve the pressure from the horn. All in all, a great choice if you want to do without the horn.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Upgrade any ordinary bike to Luxury Edition with "The Seat", June 13, 2007

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Shaun Battick (Jamaica) - See all my reviews
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Recently I started cycling to get some exercise. However, three weeks into my program saw me rushing to the doctor because of "trauma" to my groin area because of the traditional saddle. My doctor advised me to change the saddle and use padded cycle shorts. I read the reviews on "The Seat" and decided to give it a try. This was definately one of my better buying decisions.

After installing on my bike and taking a ride around the block, the comfort I felt was amazing. It was like moving from an old jalopy to a spanking new Mercedes. No pain; no pain medication needed.

That being said, it took me about 30 minutes to get adjusted to the new feel. It was a bit harder to balance and a little tricky when removing a hand from the handle.

Now that I've taken a few rides around the community, I'm definately sold; there's no going back to an ordinary saddle. The build quality of "THE SEAT' is exceptional as well and does a good job of cushioning the ill effects of bad road surfaces. Forget padded cycle shorts; any normal shorts will do!