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Submitted by
cypher
a Weekend Warrior
from uk
Date Reviewed: July 1, 2008 | | Favoriate Trail: | any thing where gravity helps | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | some bike show years | | Strengths: | resonably comfy, strongly built and didnt cost the earth, spangly glitter. have used this saddle for years on ht's, FS bikes, down hill bikes about the only thing it hasnt been on is a road bike. am changing it now only cos i'm having a bit of a weight freak out on my xc Ht and want a lighter saddle. rather surprised by all the negative reviews but notice alot of them are from people who havn't owned ot for long. | | Weaknesses: | bit heavey and wold have liked it slightly longer for on the nose climbing | | Similar Products Used: | been so long i cant recall what my last saddle was though i doo recall having another WTB saddle before this until i destroyed it in a dh crash, my dh bike has a titec berserker saddle which is also an oldie but goodie | | Bike Setup: | cove handjob xc, juicy 5's, use seatpost mavic cross ride wheels. maz 100mm forks. | | Bottom Line: | liked it. still in good nick after years of use and only being changed cos i wana get the weigth of the bike down. will be keeping it and will go on my next bike. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
kustom
a Cross Country Rider
from Krakow
Date Reviewed: June 10, 2005 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Purchased At: | came with bike | | Strengths: | strong, cheap, quite comfortable, realy long life | | Weaknesses: | without a hole = sweaty ass ;) | | Bike Setup: | was GT outpost trail, is GT zaskar team | | Bottom Line: | I bought it with 'GT outpost trail' long time ago and after 14000 km I've used to it, I must say I'm realy pleased with it, it still looks almost like when I bought it | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Nosmo King
a Cross Country Rider
from Santa Rosa, CA
Date Reviewed: May 23, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$65.00 | | Purchased At: | Supergo, pretty sure | | Strengths: | Reasonably light, Ti rails, very comfy, cool perforated leather cover. | | Weaknesses: | Perforated leather let some mud in the holes and was harder to clean, but what the heck. It looked cool. | | Similar Products Used: | Lots of Selle Italia, many Specialized seats, Bontragers thru the years... | | Bike Setup: | K2 Razorback, XT | | Bottom Line: | I also wanted to put in a good word for this saddle, which has been my favorite MTB saddle and lasted thru 3 bikes and over 5,000 off-road miles. I have a feeling a lot of the low-scorers below don't ride much. I prefer non-squishy, performance type seats, and this one fits the bill. About 270 grams, not feather light but not bad. Needed a replacement since I finally wore thru the leather on this one, found a leather/Ti SST on Ebay for $50. Hatin' life after 9 hours on my road bike this weekend, going to shop for a WTB for that bike too. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Christian
a Cross Country Rider
from Dundas, ON
Date Reviewed: May 11, 2004 | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | Freewheel | | Strengths: | Pretty cheap, comfy | | Weaknesses: | A little heavy I guess | | Similar Products Used: | I forget, but I hated it... | | Bottom Line: | I love this saddle. I don't know about everybody else who apparently hates it, but mine has served me well. I even bought a SST for my road bike, based on my happyness with this one. My next bike is definately getting a WTB saddle too. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
CrazyCarl
a Cross Country Rider
from Davis, CA USA
Date Reviewed: November 10, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | Hole-in-the-Ground | | Duration Product Used: | More than 3 years | | Strengths: | Strong, long life, comfortable, inexpensive | | Weaknesses: | heavier | | Similar Products Used: | WTB SST.XR, Selle Italia Flite Max, Fizik, etc... | | Bottom Line: | I had to add my opinion of this saddle to counteract the mass quantities of negative reviews... This has always been my favorite saddle. I feel that I have a fairly sensitive arse, I have tried many different saddles and always come back to this one. I never have numbness or problems going off the back. Plus, you can hit your local bike stores and find these saddles cheap 'cause they were pulled off as stock saddles on other bikes. The only problem is that it is kinda heavy. I'm trying a SST.2K next... | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ted Welsh
a Weekend Warrior
from Westland, MI
Date Reviewed: August 17, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | Local shop gave it to me. | | Strengths: | Almost indestructable. Great for climbinng. Allows for that special 'between the cheeks' positioning quickly for the tricky climbs. | | Weaknesses: | Not the most comfortable on long rides. | | Similar Products Used: | Specialized | | Bike Setup: | Specialized Rock Hopper | | Bottom Line: | I hated the seat the bike came with so the shop gave me this as it had a slight tear in the fabric.
The rails finally gave out on me after 2 years. I weigh 220 so am impressed it made it this far. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tequila Joe
a Cross Country Rider
from Calgary
Date Reviewed: August 9, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Came with bike | | Strengths: | Could be used as an anvil to hammer steel on. | | Weaknesses: | Provided a "kicked in the crotch feeling" after a short 2 hour, light trail ride. This is WBT's contribution to help control the world population explosion. I had absolutly no desire for nookie for 48 hours after riding on this seat. | | Similar Products Used: | Nothing can compare to this seat. Perhaps if I could bolt a brick onto my seat post, I might be able to compare notes. | | Bike Setup: | Diamondback Coil SS. Stock setup except for a new Velo Plush seat to replace this piece of crap. | | Bottom Line: | I road on this seat for 2 hours yesterday and that was enough to promt me to buy a new one the very next day. After 48 hours, my butt still hurts! I don't know which would be more painfull a 2 hour ride on this seat or taking a 6 foot drop into the seat post. Buy this seat and send it to your worst enemy. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Jim
a Weekend Warrior
from Cambridge, MA
Date Reviewed: June 20, 2003 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Bludgeoning your enemies to death!! New form of torture. | | Weaknesses: | Not fit for the human as*!! | | Similar Products Used: | Rocks, boulders, dry earth. | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Marlin stock except seat. | | Bottom Line: | I have only had my new bike now for less than a month. However, after the first time I sat on this saddle I did not want to sit down again. It has made me not want to sit on the bike and ride at all!! Right now I'm waiting for my new seat to come in and for nice weather appear here in New England. I have rode on this seat for as short as 15 minutes and as long as one hour so far, and in any case I feel used and beaten when I get off the saddle. On trails...geez, I feel like I just got out of Levenworth where previously Bubba was my momma. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Justin
a Weekend Warrior
from El Sob, California
Date Reviewed: June 17, 2003 | | Favoriate Trail: | the one to you momma's house | | Duration Product Used: | 2 Years | | Purchased At: | stock with bike | | Strengths: | Price was right. | | Weaknesses: | 50 hours after my last ride I still feel like I was victimized in the showers at Chino penitentary. | | Similar Products Used: | Nothing yet. | | Bike Setup: | GF Joshua F3. Some stock, some not. | | Bottom Line: | My posterier hasn't hurt like this since that hazing at the local Harley riders club. I've used this thing for years since I figured that's what the tough and cool bikers were suppose to do. Little did I know that the smart bikers go and buy a real saddle and use this thing as a murder weapon to baffle police. "Looks like he was bludgeoned, bbut the only thing in here is a bike seat. What the hell? This thing is harder than a baseball bat!"
3 piles of flaming toe jam because, frankly, I'd like to believe it cost me nothing, moneywise. 1 pile of flaming toe jam since after giving it the old college try for a lot of years, it's still a pain in the tuckus. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Woodie
a Weekend Warrior
from Omaha,Nebraska.usa
Date Reviewed: October 21, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Single tracks | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | I can't think of any! Oh ya, it works ok to wedge under a door to keep it open. | | Weaknesses: | Cheap, weak, hard as a brick, | | Similar Products Used: | A 12 year old gel saddle, that is now on my new bike. | | Bike Setup: | Stock 02 Fisher Hoo Koo E Koo, Other than the saddle! | | Bottom Line: | Don't even walk out the door with this one. This hunk-o-junk came with my Hoo Koo, you would think that Fisher would use a better saddle. If this comes on a bike you are going to purchase, trade it before laying down your good hard cash. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Gail
a
from Wheeling West Virginia
Date Reviewed: August 21, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | It's a little better than sitting on a rock | | Weaknesses: | This is a poorly put together, uncomfortable, cheap seat | | Bike Setup: | saddle was stock on a Gary Fisher | | Bottom Line: | Avoid this seat. On the first ride took a small spil - the rails bent and cover tore. Within one week three of the staples which hold the cover in place came out. This is a garbage saddle - - if you buy a fisher with this seat insist that the store swap out with a better saddle! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
David
a Cross Country Rider
from North Carolina
Date Reviewed: June 15, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Hobby Park | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | came with bike | | Strengths: | better than riding on seatpost | | Weaknesses: | rails are really weak, cover thing comes off easy, uncomfortable, looks stupid, etc. | | Similar Products Used: | bontrager fs+10 | | Bike Setup: | tassajara mostly stock | | Bottom Line: | The rails bend really easily. within the first month I had one endo at slow speed, and the rails bent. I bent it back some of the way and rode it for another few weeks before getting my new saddle. its really uncomfortable too. I dont find it incredibly hard like some people, but it is harder than other seats. it just plain sucks. I am very dissapointed that fisher put a seat like this on a quality frame. but then again, alot of the other components arnt top notch, but it is an inexpensive bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
tim finnegan
a Cross Country Rider
from brockton, ma
Date Reviewed: April 27, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | naked bunny | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | lbs | | Strengths: | it prevented the seatpost from getting some back door action. it is soft. | | Weaknesses: | wider than ricki lake fans | | Similar Products Used: | specialized, some performance garbage | | Bike Setup: | fisher tassajara | | Bottom Line: | it is possible that in a few years, fisher will start selling quality bikes that aren't assaulted by cheap components. i guess it's a decent seat if you never need to get behind the saddle. i just ordered the bontrager fs+10 and hopefully that'll do a better job. | Value Rating: Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John
a Weekend Warrior
from Macungie, PA
Date Reviewed: April 24, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | Deer Path | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Purchased At: | came with bike | | Strengths: | it keeps your behind from sitting on the seatpost | | Weaknesses: | tears easily, uncomfortable, steel rails creak | | Similar Products Used: | Bontrager FS2000, other stock seats, etc.. | | Bike Setup: | Fisher Sugar 4, stock parts | | Bottom Line: | This seat is a cheap alternative to rectum surgery. The only way I would keep this saddle is if I couldn't afford another one. If you like torture buy this thing and remember, no pain, no gain | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
T Thompson
a Weekend Warrior
from Athens
Date Reviewed: April 21, 2002 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Purchased At: | Came with bike | | Strengths: | Comfortable enough. | | Weaknesses: | Staples that hold cover to plastic on saddle started coming out after about 5 rides. Cover started to come off. Bike so far has not been involved in fall or any trail abuse. | | Similar Products Used: | Avocet. Never had a product defect with Avocet products. | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher | | Bottom Line: | Very dissapointed to see such a cheap product on a expensive new Gary Fisher bike. To me it takes away from a otherwise superior bike. After owning the bike for about four weeks I am trying to mend a brand new seat that had not failed due to trail damage, but through faulty construction/design/whatever. Based on my experience, I would never individually purchase another WTB saddle and would ask for it to be removed if it came on another bike. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
chappy
a
from santa cruz, CA
Date Reviewed: February 19, 2002 | | Favoriate Trail: | does this matter? | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | tuff enough, I suppose | | Weaknesses: | Hard as a friggin' rock. Wide enough for a golfer's ass. | | Bike Setup: | bullit, vanilla RLC, raceface, hayes | | Bottom Line: | This thing came stock on a new bullit. I have no idea why. It beat my bum up so bad I was force to remove it. I'm planning on throwing it into the river. I hate this seat. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Daniel
a Cross Country Rider
from provo, ut usa
Date Reviewed: September 19, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | Aardvark cycles | | Strengths: | looks like the seat off of my dad's stingray, glitter definately gives a retro look and compliments the graphics on my frame quite nicely | | Weaknesses: | it's a little hard | | Similar Products Used: | avenir, k mart gell | | Bike Setup: | American Eagle spokanne, xt/deore, manitou sx-r | | Bottom Line: | the saddle looks cool enough to keep, it is a little hard at first, but you get used to it quick enough. If you do any down hill or freeriding consider something else, it probabally won't last long. I've crashed pretty hard a couple of times and it hasn't torn yet, the plastic under the seat looks neat and clean, no staples holding the fabric on. I'd recommend it to almost anybody. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Kylo
a Weekend Warrior
from Portland, OR
Date Reviewed: August 2, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Price Paid: |
$40.00 | | Purchased At: | Fat Tire Farm | | Strengths: | Good construction ... | | Weaknesses: | Just too damn hard. I kept thinking I'd get used to it, but after 100 miles, I continued to have numb legs after riding with this sucker.
$40 for a tearoff which hurts ... not a good deal. | | Similar Products Used: | Trusty old Bontrager (blew out)
Just got a Terry Fly, rides great! | | Bottom Line: | The fit/shape is pretty good, but this saddle is just too damn hard. I kept thinking I'd get used to it, but after 100+ miles, I continued to have numb legs after riding with this sucker. So I got wise, and got a Terry Fly, rides great, cutout for the nuts, and nice small profile so I can drop off the back easily, etc.
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Submitted by
Joe Momma
a Weekend Warrior
from Staunton, VA
Date Reviewed: July 20, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | little levels | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$1000000000.00 | | Purchased At: | Supergo | | Strengths: | NICE, it looks good and feels the same way | | Weaknesses: | it tears easily | | Similar Products Used: | selle italia, diamondback stock crap | | Bike Setup: | Univega 950 ds | | Bottom Line: | this awesome seat came on my new uni and i find it very comfortable. as opposed to most people who said you need to condition your butt to a hard seat i found no problem. these are WAAy softer then those crotchgrinding selle italia seats. i got one with a lil kevlar on the seat and it works beautifully. the comfort zone keeps me feelin fresh! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
rob cole
a Downhiller
from London, England
Date Reviewed: May 30, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | aston hills | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Purchased At: | local bike dealer in Camden | | Strengths: | Looks sweet, clean design | | Weaknesses: | Not very padded, weak rails, cover tears real easy | | Similar Products Used: | Flites, San Marco's, bmx saddles, etc. | | Bike Setup: | Identiti Dr. Jeyll, Bomber Z1 drop-off, Deore Hydraulic discs, D521 on Xt Disc hubs, 24/7 cromoly cranks, Roox Chain Animals, Kore B-52, EA-50, Gazzolodi 2.3" | | Bottom Line: | Got this saddle cheap as a take-off from my local bike dealer. Looks great, very sleek / streamlined. Not very comfy, light weight has been achieved through lack of padding. Saddle was okay until I got my new bike and started jumping - bent it within 3 days, whole saddle twisted to one side - not saddle's fault it's not designed for DH / rough love! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Chris Cordle
a
from Muskegon MI
Date Reviewed: May 24, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | Right Loop, Tsali | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Price Paid: |
$35.00 | | Purchased At: | Local | | Strengths: | This is a take-off from a Gary Fisher Sugar, black with red kevlar sides, Ti rails and Comfort Zone.
Looks
Weight
Comfort Zone | | Weaknesses: | For me, none. Matter of fact, I just found me another Fisher take-off for my #2 Zaskar | | Similar Products Used: | Terry Liberator Ti Race-Very nice, but a little bulky
Bontrager Ti-Ouch!
SDG Belair-Ouch, sold after 2 rides
SDG Ventura-out the door as well | | Bike Setup: | 2000 GT Zaskar SID XC Mavic X317 XT Disc LX, XT, XTR Rock Shox post Monkey Lites
1996 GT Zaskar Manitou SX LE Mavic 221 XT XTR Azonic bars | | Bottom Line: | Obviously, I like these saddles, I suffer no johnson or back door difficulties, I only wish
I could have picked a few of these saddles out from fellow poster's trash and saved a few bucks!
5 Chilis for value due to the great "Take-off" prices
5 overall 'cuz I like 'em. Make sure and get the Comfort Zone, it works | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Ray
a Cross Country Rider
from Calgary, AB, Canada
Date Reviewed: May 1, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | None | | Weaknesses: | Hard, Hard, Hard! | | Similar Products Used: | Bontrager FS+10 | | Bike Setup: | Brodie Torque Hybrid - XT & Deore, Street slicks | | Bottom Line: | I am 6'2" and 180 lbs, so no hulk on the saddle. Saddle came on the bike. I used it for 2 rides and was numb/sore for 2 days after! Took the Bontrager off the kid's GT (I paid for it!), and ordered another for my bike.
Don't go there, Lenny! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Joshua
a Cross Country Rider
from Osborne,KS,US
Date Reviewed: April 11, 2001 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$20.00 | | Strengths: | comfortable, looks good. Good trail riding seat. | | Weaknesses: | Your butt hurts until you get toughened into it. After that? NONE! | | Similar Products Used: | Stock seats. | | Bike Setup: | TREK 930 with some small upgrades. | | Bottom Line: | As long as you don't mind the sore butt for the first few rides its a great seat. But not for everyone. You have to get used to the rock-hardness of it. If your looking for a good seat that feels good. Get one! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Clint
a Cross Country Rider
from Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Date Reviewed: January 23, 2001 | | Favoriate Trail: | sope | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Price Paid: |
$9.00 | | Purchased At: | airbomb | | Strengths: | Hard enough to support properly. Comfort zone thing really works. Fits right.
Cheap, light. | | Weaknesses: | Seems too hard when sitting parked in the bike shop. | | Similar Products Used: | San marco, specialized various models, fad stupid wide cushy saddles long ago. | | Bike Setup: | Proflex 855 | | Bottom Line: | I thought I was gonna die when i bought this and felt how hard it was in the rear area.
Amazingly I was not sore at all after riding all day. Usually I can feel it big time the day after, but not with this seat. It's all a matter of what fits your butt really. The sst x is a little wider than the sst, and any seat sitting at the wrong angle is going to clobber you. The comfort zone really helps to keep the johnson plumbing from being mashed around. You can feel the bones in your butt are what you are sitting on, rather than the tissue between. I always wind up destroying seats in crashes, so a comfortable seat for so cheap is just the thing for me.
It looks cool, doesent make you sore, is cheap, and says 'wtb' on it for posing value, what more do you want? | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
John
a Cross Country Rider
from San Diego, CA
Date Reviewed: November 19, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Weaknesses: | Hard, hard and hard. | | Similar Products Used: | Selle Italia XO Gel | | Bike Setup: | Gary fisher Big Sur | | Bottom Line: | The saddle came stock on my Fisher. Quite uncomfortable for rides longer than one hour. That didn't matter much, since I'm a roadie and used my Fisher for cross-training during the summer. But winter's coming in, and I now mainly use my Fisher. Bottom line, for repeated use, the SST.X is a no-no.
I replaced it with a Selle Italia XO Gel (about the same price than the SST.X), which works very well for me (more comfortable and narrower). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Tom
a Weekend Warrior
from Charleston,SC,USA
Date Reviewed: November 1, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Yancey's Ridge | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | Nice shape, great looks | | Weaknesses: | Unacceptably uncomfortable in any situation. Unless you have a big but this seat will render your bike almost unrideable! | | Bike Setup: | 2000 Gary Fisher Tassajera | | Bottom Line: | This piece of crap came stock on my bike. Gary Fisher may as well have put no seat on (at least it would save me the trouble of having to remove it to throw it in the trash). After an hour of riding on this seat, my butt was so sore that it was painful to ride the next day. This was riding about 5 miles on road and about 7 mile off. Unless you have a big but, stay away from this waste of space. It will give you absolutley no comfort and probably do serious damage to your body with prolonged use. Thats why supergo cant even give them away for 12.00!! | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Beth Milano
a Racer
from Durango, Colorado
Date Reviewed: October 16, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | In the mountains | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Price Paid: |
$30.00 | | Strengths: | Long, slim, and comfortable. Girls like me don't have to worry about a sleepy peepee, so I like it | | Weaknesses: | Kinda hard, my boyfriend, Sal, had a little problem, so we had a big problem in bed that night. | | Similar Products Used: | Selle Italia, My boy friend | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Sugar 3 | | Bottom Line: | I liked it, but my boyfriend didn't | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
frank kern
a Cross Country Rider
from vancouver BC
Date Reviewed: September 30, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Port Renfrow to lakecowichan | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | good loking | | Weaknesses: | hard | | Similar Products Used: | none | | Bike Setup: | GT | | Bottom Line: | tohard for long rides. My ass on fire after 300km. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Allen Newport
a Weekend Warrior
from Austin
Date Reviewed: August 25, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Barton Creek Green Belt | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Purchased At: | Discovery Bicycles | | Strengths: | Narrow seating. Durable agaisnt crashes. Only worth it if you ride rocky trails within short periods of time.
| | Weaknesses: | Tough on your toosh. Very very stiff for longer rides. I was hurting noticeably after 17 miles of riding. | | Similar Products Used: | Terry Ti-Race Liberator | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Kaitai | | Bottom Line: |
Hey, need a hammer? I got one covered in leather with cromoly steel rails and weighs around 275g. Thank goodness I didn't pay for this brick-like saddle as it came default with the Kaitai bike. I thought just like everyone else that I'd get used to it, break it in, after a few rides. Boy, I couldn't have made a bigger mistake with that idea. If you ride a lot off the seat, then you wouldn't notice it as much. I usually ride for 2 hours (1-3 days a week) and average 10 miles per trip on the trails. The last time I sat on the WTB SST.X I went for approximately 17 miles. There was a stretch of dirt trail that was flat and sandy, and that was when I started to notice the pain riding up my posterior end. That made the decision for me and the next day I went to the store for some better advice and was pointed to the Terry Ti-Race Liberator. My pain from the WTB SST.X actually subsided a bit when riding on the Ti-Race Liberator. I wouldn't recommend WTB SST.X to even my worst enemy. Great for a hammer replacement. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Miles
a
from DC
Date Reviewed: August 15, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | any | | Duration Product Used: | 6 months | | Strengths: | comfortable
lots of support | | Weaknesses: | kinda hard | | Bottom Line: | This is a good nicely priced mtb seat that gives good support for men. It is a little bit hard but who cares. I would not recommend this seat for women though(its very narrow). | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Langdog
a Weekend Warrior
from Lenoir City,TN
Date Reviewed: July 31, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Haw Ridge Park | | Duration Product Used: | 1 Year | | Strengths: | The W.T.B. name says a lot. Comfortable(but you have to get used to it.Great seat for being stock | | Weaknesses: | Time it takes to get used to it(very rough at first)ouch!! I bent the heck out of the hollow chro-mo rails in one day. | | Similar Products Used: | cheapo schwinn | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher HOO KOO E KOO stock with lizard skins chainstay guard. | | Bottom Line: | This is a great seat to come stock on a bike. It is very race oriented like most all wtb stuff.To get started out with, this seat was literally a pain in the butt, you'll get used to it though.The quality could have been better as where the sides of the seat tear up in no time and the rails bend if you weigh 170lbs. or more.Overall it's a great seat but the quality should be better. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Zach Lorden
a
from North of Chicago, IL
Date Reviewed: July 20, 2000 | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Looks nice | | Weaknesses: | Pain and lots of it | | Similar Products Used: | Other cheap stock seats | | Bike Setup: | Gary Fisher Big Sur | | Bottom Line: | This came stock on my GF Big Sur, I love the bike, don't plan on liking this saddle if you're going to ride only a couple of miles. Oucheeeeeeeee
3 chilis on value because it was stock on a great priced bike
1 chili overall because I hate it. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Miles
a Weekend Warrior
from bayarea, CA, usa.
Date Reviewed: July 2, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | tenderfoot | | Duration Product Used: | 3 months | | Strengths: | COMFY, looks, cheap, kevlar | | Weaknesses: | none. | | Similar Products Used: | bonty +10, stock crap | | Bike Setup: | trek hardtail | | Bottom Line: | i have the sst.x flash- a softer version w/ quasi, psudo nuvo schwinn sparkly blue cover-ala banana seats- and i love it. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
Submitted by
Lorenski Schooldog
a Cross Country Rider
from FTW TX USA
Date Reviewed: June 24, 2000 | | Favoriate Trail: | Barton Springs, Austin | | Duration Product Used: | Less than 1 month | | Strengths: | Sturdy looking, black and humble. | | Weaknesses: | Pain in the a$$. Hurts thinking about it. | | Similar Products Used: | Fiziks Pave' | | Bike Setup: | GF Kaitai | | Bottom Line: | The seat is general issue if you ask me, but that my might
exactly what it was marketed for. GF knows we'll want to purchase our own set-up, so to save the customer money at the total bike purchase price level, he uses this inexpensive seat on his production bike to add total value.
Smart thinking once again, Fisher! I give it 3/3 because it came default and it hurt right away. | | Value Rating:Overall Rating: |
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