[luqtas]

i cycled thousands of kilometers on this: https://mantasaddle.co.uk/ and i used Brooks and other good stuff before, for thousands of kilometers... the former doesn't even compare! no need for cycling shorts (tho i never used shorts with the Brooks too) and maybe isn't the most aerodynamic saddle out there but who f* cares :P

edit: and i use exclusively the MS5 version, which has less room to distribute pressure

[jerlam]

I'm glad it works for you.

The lack of a saddle nose would be a problem for many enthusiast cyclists. Obviously people aren't sitting on the nose, but it's used as another contact point to control the bike at high efforts, when people aren't really putting a lot of weight in the saddle at all.

[luqtas]

it still has a nose you can use to control your bicycle... despite ~ 4/5 of my 50,000 kilometers (that i stopped counting after that) being on conventional saddles, it's just fine to control with it, be it fully loaded (2 or 4 panniers) for camping @ a mild winter or with no rack at all; & i would say my frame geometry is _twitchy_ ;)

[p1esk]

Is it comfortable to ride with no hands, sitting in a fully upright position? How does it compare to a wide plush seat like ones on cruisers?

[JKCalhoun]

Looks interesting. You are a male though?

[klyrs]

Yeah, if your butt isn't in the saddle, you're standing to race up a hill. I've always considered aerodynamics to be a weird consideration for saddles. But that manta saddle looks wrong to me; like it's gonna end up putting a lot of pressure on the perenium and groin through the raised ridge. What am I missing?