I believe this new BikeYoke Sagma 3D mountain bike saddle needs to shake up the trade, providing 3D-printed assist at costs lower than half what some manufacturers are charging. Leveraging the zone-specific assist and squish which you can get from 3D-printed padding, BikeYoke calls their new Sagma 3D “probably essentially the most comfy saddle you’ve ever ridden“. And whereas a number of 3D-printed saddles hover across the $300-400/300-400€ vary, BikeYoke’s most inexpensive Sagma 3D sells for simply 160€.
BikeYoke Sagma 3D-printed saddle consolation for a lot much less
The brand new Sagma 3D is the successor to BikeYoke’s already attention-grabbing Sagma saddle. Debuted again in 2019, it provided consolation each with slow-rebound reminiscence IDbeads foam padding and a novel tunable vibration-damping rail construction. Then in 2022, lighter variations with typical rails. I’ve ridden each fairly a bit on my mountain bikes, and respect each BikeYoke’s chosen degree of padding and the floating rail design.
However now, BikeYoke says they’ll make the Sagma even higher in 3D… effectively with 3D-printed padding.
Why a 3D-printed saddle within the first place?
3D-printed saddles are scorching proper now. That’s largely for one in every of two good causes.
The preliminary idea gave the impression to be that 3D printing would make {custom} saddles potential. The additive lattice development permits designers to simply differ padding density (impartial of thickness) and thus differ degree of assist throughout particular person areas of the saddle with a single materials. A saddle will be extra inflexible and supportive beneath your sit bones, whereas being extra forgiving beneath your mushy tissue.
However individualized padding distinctive to your personal stress zones turned out to be fairly tough to do on a industrial scale. Posedla has been doing it for 3 years with a inventive low-tech stress map setup. And since final summer season, Fizik has leveraged sensible stress sensors in bike retailers all over the world to custom-fit cyclists on their very own bespoke saddles. However each of these value virtually $500-600 / 450-500€.
A bit extra accessible price-wise, saddle designers merely must map generalized saddle stress knowledge to determine the separate zones for a common match. This has been the answer utilized by corporations like Bjorn, Fizik, Prologo, Selle Italia, Selle San Marco, Specialised, and doubtless a number of others. However the most cost-effective of these are typically round $300€ and better. I believe solely Specialised managed to make one as little as $200.
Now, BikeYoke presents its personal 3D-printed zoned assist at rather more accessible pricing.
Sagma 3D Applied sciences
The brand new BikeYoke Sagma 3D is out there in a number of completely different configurations, all of which is able to share the identical 3D-printed TPU prime design – simply in both 130mm or 142mm widths for the carbon-reinforced nylon shell.
BikeYoke presents the brand new saddle as normal with their Rail Suspension Design (RSD) that lets customers mix-and-match 3 densities of shock-absorbing elastomers between saddle rails & shell to find out how a lot flex you get. This design additionally permits the saddle to barely rock side-to-side, following your physique’s movement whereas pedaling.
Or there are extra typical Lite variations of the saddle which might be a bit lighter with conventional rails.
Both manner you may decide steel or carbon rails.
Tech particulars
3D-printed TPU Matrix padded with closed prime design to forestall grime & mud accumulation
carbon fiber strengthened nylon shells
242mm lengthy total, obtainable in 130mm slim or 142mm huge widths
Sagma 3D saddles characteristic bolt-on 7x10mm UD carbon rails or 7x10mm cast 2014-T6 aluminum rails
claimed weights: 130mm carbon at 240g, 130mm alloy at 260g, 142mm carbon at 250g, 142mm alloy at 270g
Sagma 3D Lite saddles characteristic 7x10mm UD carbon rails or 7mm spherical tubular chromoly rails
claimed weights: 130mm carbon at 205g, 130mm CrMo at 260g, 142mm carbon at 215g, 142mm CrMo at 270g
exchangeable rubber tags & RSD bolts add a contact of coloration – grey, black, orange, or pink
BikeYoke Sagma 3D – Pricing, choices & availability
The brand new BikeYoke Sagma 3D saddles with rail suspension promote for $200/200€ with aluminum rails. Sagma 3D with rail suspension and carbon rails will value you $250 / 250€. The easier BikeYoke Sagma 3D Lite with typical rails sells for simply $160 / 160€ with chromoly rails. Or the lightest model, the Sagma 3D Lite with carbon rails sells for $200/200€.
All of them come normal with the black rubber tag emblem. For the Lite saddles, it’s an additional 2.5€ to get a coloration tag. For the rail suspension saddles, it’ll value an additional 12€ to get that contact of coloration, which incorporates matching anodized rail attachment bolts, too.
Get all of them straight from BikeYoke now, or quickly by way of their distribution companions. Possibly you’ll even decide up a brand new BikeYoke Barmate handlebar with designed-in 35mm consolation like I reviewed earlier this week.
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