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Fizik Aliante Adaptive Brings 3D-Printed Padding Consolation to Basic Curved Saddle
Jun
The newest to affix their 3D-printed lineup, the brand new Fizik Aliante Adaptive is a curved-top or ‘waved profile’ saddle optimized for endurance cyclists preferring a planted place on the bike over lengthy distances. It incorporates a wider tail on the again that regularly sloped right down to the nostril, and longer total lengths. Fizik calls it a design made for improved stability and extra even weight distribution for the longest dropbar rides.
Fizik Tempo Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed endurance saddle
The Aliante has lengthy been a favourite of highway riders cranking out the miles, and ultra-distance racers, and even gravel & bikepacking riders who sit and spin in the identical place, hour-after-hour. Actually, for a saddle the place riders don’t transfer round a lot, it looks like the proper one to learn from the Adaptive tech.
Now with the customized ‘zonal cushioning‘ that solely 3D-printing can actually ship, the Fizik Aliante Adaptive can present elevated help stiffness below the sit bones. And on the identical time provides softer cushioning within the nostril and all through the remainder of the saddle, for extra even weight distribution and improved consolation.
What’s new?
This new Aliante Adaptive is claimed to function a flatter floor total for even higher unfold of stress when seated.
It makes use of the identical fashion of carbon fiber-reinforced nylon base as the opposite Adaptive R1 & R3 saddles, with a slim stress aid cutout that you just solely actually see from beneath the saddle.
Apart from that, it’s the massive shift to the open hexagon-shaped Adaptive 3D-printed padding for the basic curved saddle form. Created with Digital Gentle Synthesis stereolithography printing on Carbon Inc machines, the honeycomb construction permits for diverse ranges of help in every zone of the saddle.
Tech Specs
- Size: 275mm
- Width: 145mm or 150mm
- Top at 75mm width: 46mm
- Size from nostril to 75mm width: 137mm
- Shell: carbon fiber-reinforced nylon
- Rails: 7x9mm oval carbon for R1; 7mm Kium hole ti alloy for R3
- Weight: 196g (R1 145mm), 201g (R1 150mm), 235g (R3 145mm), 240g (R3 150mm)
Fizik Aliante Adaptive – Pricing, choices & availability
The newly 3D-printed Fizik Aliante Adaptive saddle is obtainable now in two widths and two spec ranges. The R1 Adaptive saddles with carbon bolstered shells and oval carbon rails promote for $300 / 300€, with black on black graphics. And the marginally heavier R3 Adaptive saddles that swap in hole Kium rails promote for $260 / 260€, with white logos. That’s the identical pricing for the opposite identical spec stage Fizik Adaptive saddles.
Get them now direct from Fizik on-line, or by way of your native bike store.