Fizik Antares 00 Carbon Braided Wing Flex Road Bicycle Saddle

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Price: $288.00    

Product Feature

• Carbon Braided Rail: Stronger and Lighter
• Cover: Rilsan carbon reinforced shell
• Integrated Clip System
• Wing Flex Design
• Weigh: 135 grams

Product Description

Fizik Antares 00 Carbon Braided Wing Flex Road Saddle is fi'zi:k's lightest saddle, weighing only 135 grams. The Antaress 00 is the newest addition to the fi'zi:k road range, embodying all the essential fi'zi:k elements: comfort, flexibility, and incredible lightness. The saddle has a Rilsan Carbon Reinforced Shell, the Integrated Clip System, and a carbon braided rail. Allowing Fizik to create this extremely light road saddle was a new sandwiched carbon shell (a layer of foam sandwiched between slices of carbon “bread”) that incorporates a variation of Wing Flex. The Wing Flex construction allows free thigh movements, regardless of the rider's position, along the saddle. This saddle is the first sandwich carbon saddle shell in the industry, and it provides additional stiffness. The Antres 00’s Wing Flex properties will conform to an individual rider, but the saddle needs a few hundred kilometers to break in. The end result is a saddle with stats no one can match: 171cm cube of padding; 190cm square of seating surface; while weighing just 135 grams. Specs: Cover - Rilsan carbon reinforced shell; Rail - Braided Carbon; Weight - 135 grams; Length - 275mm; Width - 142mm; Scuff Guards - no; ICS - yes.

Fizik Antares 00 Carbon Braided Wing Flex Road Bicycle Saddle Review

Part 1
This seat is lighter than some seat post clamps. It is a beauty, too. However, it is no comfort queen. This was expected. Hopefully, as I ramp up the mileage in the spring, my butt will toughen up. On the other hand, I've always have had good luck with flites -- which are not exactly spring supported brooks. Where flites tend to be narrow, almost hatchet like, this seat has a very flat top, so your sit bones are going to ride on top of it rather than snugging down. For just a few grams more and a several dollars less, you can get a more comfortable seat, and as comfort has a big impact on efficiency & performance, that might be a smarter choice. The real measure of this seat will be on the back side of a century. I will re-post further into the season. In the meantime, for weight and star wars styling... this seat is very cool.

Part 2
As noted in following posts to my original post, I've found this seat to be very comfortable on my Ibis titanium road bike. I logged some long rides and have no complaints. I loved this seat so much that I bought one for a friend's "Black Lung" Ibis carbon Hakaluggi. It looks hot on the the Hakaluggi. It rides hard as hell.

I mean, when I ride the Hakaluggi, I am taking a beating and my butt hurts even on short rides. So first off, yes your seat makes an important incremental difference, but there is a WORLD of difference between titanium and carbon. Duh. So don't expect this seat to cure the stiff ride that newer carbon bikes and older aluminum bikes often (not always) dish out.

Second, this seat may take a good bit of breaking in. I could not believe that two identical seats could feel so unalike. So I did a "flex test" on the "wing flex" of this seat. I placed both hands on the opposite pads where your sit bones rest and pushed down, released and push down again. You get the picture. Sure enough, the older seat appears to have a little bit more give, while the new seat is a good bit stiffer.

Of note, the rail position with regard to the seat post clamp is nearly identical on both bikes, so the difference in harshness of the two rides should not not be due to a seat-rail-flex variable messing up my impressions. But even seat post clamps have different flex characteristics. The Ibis has a titanium seat post (I can't recall the manufacturer right now). The Hakaluggi has a crank bros carbon 11, which seams to have more flex than the titanium post, and includes a crank bros 7 x 9 clamp to accommodate carbon rails. (I think it a rip-off that you have to pay addition money to get the carbon rail post clamp, but that is for another review...).

Also, there is the possibility that there is a range of "wingflex" that is not tightly controlled before it leaves the factory. Carbon is, after all, tricky stuff to predict.

Okay - still a great looking and incredibly light weight seat... that is comfortable when placed on a bike with a forgiving frame.

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