The Brooks Team Pro Classic Saddle is a simpler, more modern version of the Team Professional, which Brooks has been making for over half a century. The Team Pro Classic features modern tubular steel rivets instead of the large hand-hammered copper rivets made famous by the original Brooks Heritage saddles.

Yeah I'm here with dave from smp saddles. And he's gonna tell us about a great new triathlon saddle they're pretty well. Known for the road saddle and once you. First just explain leave the difference between your road family saddles and the. New try family saddles sure and how that perhaps compares to the competition sure well stella smp has been making. Saddles 100% in italy since 1947 and. Since 2004 most people no sell a snp for. Their very curved patented design that. Cradles the entire pelvic structure offering 100% blood flow related. Elimination of pain numbness there's no. Impingement of the pudendal nerve and a very distinct unique shape in the road. Mountain bike cyclotrons travel world. And a few years ago the project was. Undertaken to bring all the health comfort and performance benefits from. Their patented saddles in the road world. Of mountain bike world and offer those same benefits in the triathlon world in the time trial world and the t series or. Triathlon series of saddles was introduced with t1 through t5 saddles. Now offering the optimum size of saddle. Level of padding in the saddle for each. Individual rider and in comparison will. See that the t series saddles appear. To be much flatter in profile versus the. Curve bruce impose however the. Technology of the foam and the. Creation of the foam or the padding that's used specific for the needs of the triathlete or the aero bar athlete. Once they're rotated forward moving forward sliding forward in that arrow position offers the same pelvic. Stability seen elimination of numbness. Because there's no compression of soft tissue which is the same for men and. Women it's not a male or female specific. Saddle it's a human specific saddle and. The scene whose benefits apply we want. To support the weight of the rider completely on the bone structure and. Illuminate any contact to the soft tissue optimally size and fit the rider. Depending on if they're you know very small. And petite or on the other end of the. Size scale, so we can support that but dave i think we're all familiar with. Most triathletes the is and the da mo's saddle which has really no support on the front of it and the beef most. People have is that it's wide in the. Nose and it rubs on some people's v so how does this compare the tri saddle to. The highest sense though well i think the most important thing to understand. Is that there's two standout features. That separate you know what is become a. Very popular saddle in the triathlon world to new technology and benefits the. First being the series of saddles that. Run from the t3 which is going to be. This saddle which is the smallest narrowest in the line and all the way up. To the t1 which is the other side which is the largest so each individual. Rider can find the saddle that fits them. Proportionally that's optimum meaning we. Don't want to put the very large athlete. On the very narrowest saddle or vice versa because they interact with the saddle differently there the proportions aren't the same between. Those two athletes so we can optimally. Match the size of the athlete to the size of the saddle level of padding. Whether you prefer a little bit more minimalistic level padding to a greater. Degree of padding a little bit softer. Level the other most important thing is that the saddle itself is connected both at. The front and at the back so the shell of the saddle continues and the easy to. See on the road line the eagle beatin design which is very distinctive continues the shell of the saddle and. Gives you greater pelvic stability because you don't introduce the chance of the saddle becoming out of plane. Whether that's from rider weight from pedaling from the forces of the seat post. Causing the saddle to separate or to. Move and so by continuing this shell it. Bends out of the way so there's no contact with the body same thing applies from the road line to the tribe line that you still get a modified eagle beat. Design so this is bending out of the way but the shell continued so you keep. Pelvic stability and pelvic integrity both at the front of the saddle the back. Of the saddle seat post clamping forces. Can't distort the saddle pedaling forces can't distort the saddle so you maintain optimum stability optimum comfort optimal performance well that's awesome. I got just one question though did they only come in these colors well the very. Distinct red and yellow are our test saddles so you can come in and try them out for yourself and then, and then we know if we lost our tests out that's right can't get mixed up in the studio and then as far as regular saddles they. Come in black white or the fluoro yellow. Fluorescent color ok thanks a lot dave, so we're gonna have these test saddles at our trek locations, and we do pro bike. Fitting that's all part of getting set up correctly on the bike having the right saddle as well so come on in. Check out these new saddles, and we hope to see you soon thank you.

Today let's talk about the brook saddle. And how has it been after a couple thousand miles. Picking a saddle for your bike is probably a more difficult decision than even picking the bike itself it's where you spend the majority of your time when you're on the bike you're sitting in the saddle and an uncomfortable saddle makes. For an uncomfortable tour and an uncomfortable ride it doesn't make you happy so when you're looking at saddles. There aren't either many people who go touring that haven't considered a brook saddle lots of people talk about them some. People love them some people hate them that's much the case with every saddle that's out there so what are my thoughts after a couple thousand miles I'm a fan. Of the brooks i think it's a great saddle it's been very comfortable for me. Did take about 500 miles before these. Sit bone locations kind of came into play hopefully you can see those right in here and here i did buy the proof I'd. That you get from brooks so listen let's. Talk about that just real quick here's the proof I'd write stuff right here. This stuff — brooks sells there's what. It looks like kind of looks like vaseline i don't know what's in it. Let me put the lid back on it here I'm. Not sure what's in it but it's what brooks recommend on their saddles and. If you're gonna spend the kind of money. A brooks saddle costs why wouldn't you buy the product they recommend putting on it so i put that on there everybody's. Got their own theory about how often for the first couple of weeks i would put it on there about once a week both top and bottom underside now i only do it about. I don't know probably once every three. Or four months the other question that i. Get a lot of times is what do you do about in the weather well if I'm biking in its weather i don't really worry much. About it if I'm honest there are a lot of folks who do cover that you know have the cover that goes over their saddle if it's raining but i. Don't spend a lot of time out in the rain and riding if you do perhaps. And you're on a tour and you're concerned by the cover i have heard of guys who take a shower cap and put over. Their seat while they're driving like if it's on the back of your car or in the back of your truck personally i just marked my seat posts with a white paint. Pen and then take this just take the. While seat off and throw it in the trunk it's not a big deal the way i don't have to worry about it so overall am i happy yeah I'm happy i. Don't have any major pain other than the. Normal pain you're gonna have because you don't often ride enough and no seats. Gonna stop that issue it's its still. Stiff but it has just enough give to. Take a little bit of the bounce out i did make some minor adjustments i am just a little bit above level and i. Found that to be more comfortable for me i also am a fan of the imperial with the. Slit here in the middle i think it's a. Little less painful in my experience i haven't had to make any adjustments here or anything and some people say well. Don't the rivets hurt no can't even tell. They're there it's been a great saddle i think you should give it a shot if you haven't i think you would find that you. Might enjoy a brooks saddle and that you. Now it's just becomes comfortable over time and this is a saddle that if you take care of it truly can last you a lifetime so there's a link in the. Description for the brooks saddle that i bought appreciate all the subscribers. And the views and the folks who watch the videos i hope you'll consider giving. It a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't. Folks talk to you again soon. Oh. You.

Hi i'm rob with me. And today the cell italia slr superflow. In both the 130 and the 145 the. Superflow might be cell italia's most. Revolutionary saddle since the creation of the flight in the early 90s it. Signifies a change but just five years. Ago the company was on the fence as to whether sit bone with mattered when it came to saddle fit and there was a lot. Of discussion internally as to whether cut outs actually made a difference for. Numbness or soft tissue pressure we now have one model available in two. Different sizes we have the 130 and the. 145 this signifies that the company has. Finally caved to the notion that not one. Size for every rider but that one model. Should be made in a variety of sizes to. Provide comfort for different riding positions and different sit bone widths it also comes with their largest cut out. They've ever made it starts just behind. The nose and goes almost all the way to. The rear the cut at the front is just under 19 millimeters wide and gets as. Wide as 34.7 at the rear and is a. Whopping 194 millimeters in length it's. Almost the entire length of the saddle and it's a first for them it's covered. In their standard high density eva padding so while it's firm it provides. Just enough sit bone support and give so. That as not to fatigue you and it's wrapped in genuine leather the shell. Features their 30 percent carbon. Composite with titanium rails connected. So there's a little bit of give which provides additional comfort and it's extremely lightweight in the 130 we see. Most riders with an aggressive position or narrow sit bones and this is going to. Standard for the slr shape now if you. Need a wider saddle slightly more upright position or slightly wider sit bones and previously weren't able to fit on the slr you have the 145 it's 15. Millimeters wider and it is intended to meet the riders who other i found the smaller slr shape of the past to be too narrow and didn't provide. Enough sit bone support for them the additional width is made up with a larger wing section here the cutout itself does not change in proportion to. The width keep in mind it does keep the. Slr hallmark characteristics it's flat. Across the top here it's got a gentle. Give for the wing but it's a largely. Flat saddle at the rear and it has a get out of the way nose so it's a little on. The narrower side in both sizes i'm. Going to tell you that while you're hanging off the front of the saddle that cutout is not so effective i'm rob if we. Keep you cycling and this is sell italians slr superflow in the 130 and. The 145 with you have any questions. About these saddles or any of the saddles we carry drop us a line or email us info at we keep you cycling calm.