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Mike Hare

March 21, 2024 by Laura Toll

Dear ISM, I took my first ride on my new ISM PR 2.0 tonight – a half hour on Zwift. I’m 71 years old and rode a good bit in my 30s. Unfortunately I let life get in the way and have hardly rode at all until 2012. I’ve had several bikes and many saddles since then, even a few that I’ve subjectively liked, in particularly the original saddle on my Volagi Liscio… my “forever” bike. Now it is even more so! I have always been aware that I have been riding a bike when I got off. The worst saddles were out and out painful and even the best left me with a bit of discomfort. The ISM was so very different. I set it up exactly to your suggestions, dead level, 50mm further back and 5 mm lower. The bike fit is almost perfect, it may have to go back a bit more but the knee angles and pedal stroke feel perfect. There is no sensation of inner thigh rub at all. You suggest that it might take a bit to get used to it. Psshaw! It took less than a minute to get situated fore and aft and the short session was uneventful unless you consider that it was further, faster, more comfortable and at a higher average power than I had achieved before. There was no numbness or fatigue I normally expect. I expected to give it a month or so and then go back and forth between this and two other saddles I use regularly. That plan is out the window. The ISM is on the Volagi to stay, and the tablet and Bike Fast Fit come out this weekend to tweak the position. Other than that, the forever bike now has a forever saddle.
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