Need Saddle Advice!

[indianajo]

My bike has rails. Cloud9 cannot be used as it has a post. I have had 3 hour comfort from evo cruiser 260x218 from modern bike. Selle Royale Explora is a close second, and costs twice as much. Putting a cloud9 padded cover over it adds another hour of comfort. The cover tends to fall off and get lost when I shop or meet.
The fat melted off my hips in my mid sixties, and the sit bones hurt after 3-4 hours whatever I am sitting on. My weekly commute is 4 hours each way. The saddle on my Tinturi exercycle has 2 cm dense foam and is totally comfortable. NODODY will make such a product. The Tinturi has a 5 cm x 2 cm steel rectangular shaft, so it will not fit anything else. I tried making a sadlle with a couch cushion and a vinyl cover, but the cushion kept squirting off behind the saddle, which was a brick hard flat SQL some idiot recommended. I am happy everybody else that rides a bike, including all the sales people in shops, is under age 50. Old people are supposed to stay home, or drive Volvos Mercedes or Lincolns.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

The saddle on my Tinturi exercycle has 2 cm dense foam and is totally comfortable. NODODY will make such a product.

I presume pedalling is as easy as while sitting on a couch

 

[gromike]

Everybody is entitled to there own preference in bicycle fitment, so keep trying. I got a Cloud 9 in a free pile of bike parts and put it on a bike for someone who has lost all fat. Even at that, he wants a full suspension bike.

 

[Chazmo]

I liked @Mr. Coffee ’s responses, but I did have one thing to add… I bought a saddle that was cheap and looked like it might be comfortable, but the rails were crap and within a month they suffered fatigue even though I kind of liked the thing. A lot of folks are making 3D-printed padding for the saddles which is interesting… Anyway, I’d avoid the cheapo stuff you find simply because you need a saddle to be rugged and long-lasting and not just feel good.

In a lot of ways, this parallels criticisms of overall bike manufacturing, however, there are economies of scale that work for the cheaper bike manufacturers that mean some good stuff comes on cheap bikes, but that concept doesn't always trickle down to end consumer purchases of cheap components. Just my thought for the morning.

 

[Mr. Coffee]

There is a single general rule: the more upright your riding position is the more you will suffer.

There is a substantial problem with this assertion.

Most touring bikes tend to favor a more upright riding posture. Some touring bikes that use flat bars favor a very upright posture. And touring bikes tend to be ridden fairly long distances at fairly low speeds, implying many hours of riding time. Yet paradoxically touring bikes are often far and away the most comfortable bikes around.