Saddle Modification

Ladies: Have you ever wished that your Fizik Vitesse had a cutout?

I know when I got mine that I thought that the shape of it was perfect, but that the lack of any soft tissue relief was problematic and eventually led to removing it from my bike. However, the other day I was reading the Team Estrogen message forum and saw a post by a gal who, with the help of her boyfriend, sucessfully skinned her Vitesse, created a channel in the foam, then cemented the cover back on. I immediately had to try it…

The initial peeling:

Marking where I want to cut:

I used a really sharp knife:

Then coated both surfaced with DAP contact cement:

Voila! My Fizik Vitesse now has some soft tissue relief:

Now whether it will be comfortable or not is something that I’ll have to find out tomorrow or Saturday. The one concern I have is that the edges of my cutout will do what the edges of every other cutout have done (cause saddlesores). Hopefully not. Either way, it’s been a fun project!

3 thoughts on “Saddle Modification

  1. I’m about to be off the bike after this weekend for a while and spend some quality time in a deer stand to hopefully KILL:)!!!! Oh yeah and drink lots of beer and listen to good ole country music, sit around the camp fire and tell lots of lies:)!!!

    Hola!

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