If you want to reduce the weight of your road bike, at some point it's the saddle's turn. However, a lightweight saddle, carelessly bolted to the bike, can have serious consequences, as it is one of the trickiest places to save a few grams. A saddle weighs between 60 and 70 per cent of your body weight on the surface of a beer mat; and whether a 100-kilo man on an 80-gram saddle has an advantage over a 70-kilo rider on a 200-gram saddle remains to be seen. However, it doesn't look very elegant if the light saddle rider - regardless of weight - is mostly travelling in the saddle because his backside hurts.
You will find the following models in the free PDF download:
AX-Lightness Endurance and Phoenix, Bontrager Race XXX Lite, Roseversand WCR Fullcarbon CR-1, Selle Italia C64 Carbon and SLR TT, Selle San Marco Aspide Composite, Steinbach Carbon 3-Point, Tune Concorde and Speedneedle
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