Saddles

We’ve said that the Bike Fit starts with the feet, then moves on to the bottom and then to the hands.  We stock parts for your feet.  We stock parts to hold your saddle and handlebars in the correct position.  We stock handlebars.  But we don’t currently stock saddles.  Why is that?

 

With the part types we do sell, a relatively small stock will suit 95% of cyclists.  Whilst handlebars do have a significant degree of customer preference regarding shape, material and cost, width is by far the most important factor and once this is correct there are many different areas on the bar for you to find an acceptable position, which is not the case for your bottom and the saddle.

 

Many bike fitters will automatically sell you a new saddle as part of the bike fit without knowing whether the saddle itself is causing any issues or not.  What we do at Precision Cycle Fit is to ensure that your current saddle is in the correct position and advise whether it is fundamentally compatible with you or not.  What most customers find is that after a few weeks of riding, their saddle issues have been resolved.  For those where this is not the case, we are now more confident that the saddle itself is a root cause of your saddle discomfort and we can then rectify accordingly.  

 

​This is an area we'll monitor carefully and if we can determine a solution that will benefit our customers then we will implement it.  It comes back to the second sentence in our Shop section: "Precision Cycle Fit’s primary function is to sell expertise, not parts.  Therefore, we will not sell you anything that you won't benefit from".