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General Category => The Knowledge => Topic started by: Wowbagger on 14 March, 2018, 07:59:23 pm

Title: Lady Flow Saddle advice
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 March, 2018, 07:59:23 pm

After today's 25-mile ride on the original saddles that came with our Circe Helios, Jan and I have decided to buy some replacements. Jan has  Lady Gel Flow on her Thorn which she quite likes.

To cut to the chase, are these two the same? The price is clearly very different...

https://www.merlincycles.com/selle-italia-lady-flow-saddle-82337.html?utm_campaign=googlebase-GB&utm_source=googlebase&utm_medium=shopping&utm_term=Road+Bike+Saddles&ucpo=21282&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkKPVBRDtARIsAA2CG6EtyXA4vTrDr77t6wvR8T-2oHXRG4eQScLTKpqTwEqBVJlNLUG8_M8aAgnXEALw_wcB

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/selle-italia-lady-gel-flow-saddle/rp-prod56212

Title: Re: Lady Flow Saddle advice
Post by: Kim on 14 March, 2018, 08:02:17 pm

Yes.  But that appears to be because you've posted the same URL twice.

(Where's ian to reconstruct the conversation where the marketing people decided that Lady Flow was a good name for anything you couldn't buy from a chemist?)

Title: Re: Lady Flow Saddle advice
Post by: Wowbagger on 14 March, 2018, 09:50:14 pm

Edited it now.

Title: Re: Lady Flow Saddle advice
Post by: Torslanda on 14 March, 2018, 09:57:40 pm

Merlin's offering is vinyl and makes no mention of gel.

Chiggle's is leather and gel cushioning.

I'd say no.

Title: Re: Lady Flow Saddle advice
Post by: phantasmagoriana on 14 March, 2018, 10:24:36 pm

Quote from: Torslanda on 14 March, 2018, 09:57:40 pm

Merlin's offering is vinyl and makes no mention of gel.

Chiggle's is leather and gel cushioning.

I'd say no.

I'd agree. I used to have one of the basic, non-gel ones, and it was fine - though I never tried a gel one to compare.

Title: Re: Lady Flow Saddle advice
Post by: Thing2 on 15 March, 2018, 12:31:10 pm

If I remember rightly, there are two models (gel and non gel) which look almost identical. They do feel different though, and it's probably worth spending the extra to get the gel version imo. It will give a more consistent' feel' on longer rides and over the longer term. The foam ones tend to squish after a while.

Title: Re: Lady Flow Saddle advice
Post by: bikepacker on 15 March, 2018, 02:25:45 pm

The difference is one has gel inside and seem slightly better made, the other is sponge. Pauline much prefers the gel version.

I have a very nice Selle-Italia-Ladies-Trans-AM-leather-covered-saddle brand new I can sell you for £28 posted if you are interested. Got it last year for my daughter's bike but she has been told not to ride with her back injury. Although new it is now a discontinued line.

Here is where it came from. https://www.tredz.co.uk/.Selle-Italia-Trans-Am-Lady-Flow-Leather-Saddle_91186.htm