[sfn42]

I don't get it. Just get a big nice well padded seat. Who cares if it weighs 500 grams? Doesn't matter unless you're in tour the France or something.

No good reason to use those horrible diamond hard lightweight seats.

[throwaway22032]

Well padded seats are less comfortable, they give and then you just chafe.

You want to be on your sit bones.

[tpm]

A lot of people including me have great experience with gel-padded saddles (Sportourer FLX in my case). No chafing or any other issue even after >100km rides. On the other hand, I can't ride unpadded saddles even with well-padded shorts; it's just too painful. I've tried several.