AE Saddle

After a few hundred miles I'm bumping up to a 5! I just bought my second one for my road bike so I don't have to keep switching the saddle between my bikes!I would not be riding a bike if it weren't for this saddle...at least not still riding offroad and with some semblance of my former cycling life. I have battled prostatitis and this was the solution! It is of course not the same as a regular seat and has taken me a little while to adjust but I'm used to it now and it has broken in better than I'd expected. I am so used to it now I don't even notice it anymore and I NEVER have post-ride pain with this saddle. I've done a few rides recently on regular saddles and yep...pain. So this is for me the cure!I've have had the most success with it by setting my seat slightly lower, handlebars a little higher, and sitting in a slightly more upright position than I did with a standard seat. This includes leveling out this saddle a bit so the pads are not quite horizontal but sloping forward just a bit. This is very doable on my eBike, slightly harder to get away with on a regular bike where you need to be more hunched over with a higher seat for power but I do it on my road bike without much difference from my previous seat height and still zero perenium contact even in a hunched over position.It is zero perineum contact and nice to still have a nose there for some thigh control. Yes you can slip down on the nose part (has happened a few times on technical terrain) and that's not great but not worse than that hitting on a regular saddle. The construction is good with a quality plastic frame, cromo rails, and nice pads with a durable covering on them. The saddle is well built and flexes just a little which is actually great. It fits me well but one issue I could see for some riders would be the inability to move the pad width, angle, etc.. So it could work better for some than others depending on where your sit bones are. Another with a nose that is similar and more adjustable may be the SQ Lab 600 although there are complaints that the pads on this one cause thigh rubbing issues whereas the aeroelastic is not too wide and the pads do flatten out as you sit on them awhile (memory foam type of material).I can still mountain bike with it and no thigh contact issues at all, I even ride pretty aggressively with a dropper seat and can still get behind it no problem whereas most others including the SQ Lab look quite a bit wider and bulkier. And of course there's all the other truly noseless saddles out there like the Hobson, ISM, Wing, etc. but I hated the lack of a nose and some of those were way to big, wide and cumbersome for what I wanted as well as not all being zero perenium contact which is my issue. Hard to figure out what is best and unfortunately it may be trial and error for a lot of us with issues. But honestly after trying quite a few this one has proven to be the best one by far!6/7/20 - I am glad to see these back in stock on Amazon! If you have any questions I found you can email Mico (owner of Aeroelastic) via their main website and he will get back with you. Very nice and prompt response. He may even have some of the higher end model of these saddles (the Eyes) still available. They are apparently not going to make them anymore due to cost (carbon fiber etc.) Anyway, just a heads up if you are interested in that model or have any questions.10/23/20 - Update. I have now over 1000 miles on the saddle. I don't even notice it I'm so used to it now. ZERO prostate pain now in almost a year of riding. The saddle itself looks as good as the first day too!3/22/2022 - Over 4000 miles on this saddle (well split between two of them.) Both are holding up well and zero prostate issues. Never even notice now and ride all kinds of road and mtb tech terrain. I have done 50+ mile rides on these. I just bought my 3rd since they were out on Amazon during COVID and this is literally the only saddle keeping me riding so I want to have a good supply of them! Still just amazed at this product and I tried them all and gave up biking for a few years. When I first tried it I didn't think it would work but now it's all that feels normal to me so stick with it if you have issues and it will become second nature and keep you riding!

Once you find the right "spot" this seat is golden, no pain, long rides are a breeze with no numbness, no pressure upon the perineum etc. as advertised, I ride with a gel seat cover and bike shorts... Lots of jelly so to speak; take an allen wrench with you on the first rides, and find the sitz bones spot of your individual framework, and plant the sits part of the seat forward or backward as appropriate, and once your sweet spot gets found, give it a gew rides for your body to learn a new position, it causes a bit more forward weight on the hands, so I lowered it until that became non-issue, you will have to learn a slightly different no hands game as the thigh/nose control that your used to, isn't possible with this seat. I'm currently back to normal after several learning curve trips...All of that noted, you're buying this on Amazon, if its just not your thing; return it, no harm, no foul, no money lost.One Year+ Update:There's been no real change to use or comfort, my only issue has been that indeed your riding position puts more pressure toward the grips, you are leaning more forward, this causes numbness and tingling in the wrists and hands, I have bar ends and often sit up on long rides with only my fingertips resting on the bars and am constantly having to adjust this aspect, lowering the seat isn't a real option as that would make your legs ill aligned.So... All of that said I'm done with the Æ, and on to looking into other options.

The media could not be loaded. Top sheet recommendation: I think this saddle does what it says it does. Gives you a comfy place to sit without crushing your luggage. It will take some getting used to, but not too bad.Bit more detail:So, I'm mid 50's. About 10+ years ago I bought a Hobson Easy-Seat II. I worked fine for me, and certainly did what it says - keeps pressure off your "nether regions" (as they say in polite company). Well... I upgraded my bike and am also doing more mileage recently. My Hobson gave up the ghost - the mechanism that allowed for the adjustment of the width of the pads broke so that it not only didn't work, but the seat itself would slide side to side. I tried going back to the stock Trek seat (which, honestly, wasn't too bad, so long as I ignored the Trek Tech and tilted it down a fair amount in the front). I even tried getting a pair of biking shorts with the "chamois" - but I seem to not love those. Anyway... long story short, I came back to saying, "why can't they make a saddle that ends right where your luggage starts... so you just have the back end of the seat." Like the Hobson, but designed to be used a bit more forward leaning. So I do another search and...IN COMES THE AEROELASTIC AE!My review after several 30 mile rides (without padded shorts) and a couple 70+ rides with padded shorts: If you've not ridden on a noseless saddle (this technically has a nose, but I honestly feel it's more aesthetic than anything), you'll probably feel a little wobbly at first. Even though I'd ridden on the Hobson for years, this saddle has less real estate back there, so I did feel a bit like a bird on a perch. (The Hobson is great, I think, if you're a more casual biker and/or you sit pretty upright on your bike.) I've recently had issues with feet tingling and some hand tingling on my bikes, so had done a fitting at Trek, which gave me some tips on positioning which really DID help. On my first ride, I did feel a little bit like my hamstring on my left leg got a bit of a pinch, but after stopping and stretching a bit, that went away, so perhaps more due to my squat routine from a couple days prior. I did get a BIT of feet tingle, but I honestly think that was more about feet placement (I noticed my feet had slipped back on the peddles, and once I corrected that, the tingling seemed to go away. At the end of the ride, I felt fine. No achy bum. And no crushed luggage. And that, as they say, is the ballgame.After doing a couple 70+ rides with padded shorts, I'll reiterate this seat get my full endorsement. (I'm not one to gush, so that IS saying something.) No achy bum, no tingly nether region, no feet issues.So...If you feel crushed by regular seats, this may be the solution.