Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle Reviews
Review score: 9.1/10 – Updated November, 2024
Latest Price: £33.99 (RRP: £0)
Take a look now to discover what makes Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle worthy of a review score of 9.1 out of 10.
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Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle features
Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle
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Spec 1
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Colour: Black Other Saddles found with this Spec: 6387 |
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Spec 2
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Gender: Unisex Other Saddles found with this Spec: 2527 |
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Feature 1
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Cover Material: Fibra-Tek Other Saddles found with this feature: 27 |
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Feature 2
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Rail Material: FEC Alloy Other Saddles found with this feature: 17 |
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Feature 3
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Padding Material: Minimal padding Other Saddles found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 4
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Use: Road, MTB Other Saddles found with this feature: 107 |
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Feature 5
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Dimensions: 145x275mm Other Saddles found with this feature: 5 |
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Feature 6
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Part Numbers: 047A203AL0001 Other Saddles found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 7
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Weight: 250g Other Saddles found with this feature: 8 |
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Price
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£33.99 |
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Quality
Quality is without doubt one of the most important factors that we consider when buying bikes, parts, accessories or clothing. As you’d imagine it’s especially important when buying Saddles. Let’s take at a look at the sort of things you can look at when trying to ascertain the quality of Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle.
The first thing is material. Looking at what Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle is made of will give you a really good idea of the quality overall. Take a look at the specs above and you should be able to see the material. It’s then up to you to decide if it meets your expectation.
Similarly you’ll also want to spend some time looking at the features too. Again the table above, listing the features will give you a really good overview. However you should think about the sort of features that you’d expect when buying new Saddles. It’s worth writing a list of the “must-have” features so that you don’t end up compromising and missing some important features, or alternatively end up buying an unnecessarily high specced product.
There’s also a lot of merit in checking out the brand of the product and looking at the various brands that are selling Saddles. Brands like Selle Italia are of courses extremely well respected in the cycling community so you know you’re getting a fantastic product with them. But if you’re undecided on your product you should write up a list of brands that you’d be happy to buy. It’s a great way of filtering and narrowing down the number of products when you’re searching.
Next up you’ll want to think about the price and use that as a guide to set your expectations of the quality. If you’re buying the cheapest of the options in the Saddles category you should probably expect it to not be of as good quality as the most expensive. It sounds obvious of course. But this is where you can get a bit clever and use your combination of features, specs, materials and other factors to work together to get a really good quality product at the best price. We often draw up a list of “must-haves” and use these as filters when shopping online so that you’re only seeing products that meet your criteria. You can then sort by Price>Low to get the best deals.
Comparing Prices
Price, as you would imagine, is the most popular reason for someone buying one product over another. It is the single most important factor in choosing the majority of products we buy. The same goes for Saddles.
It’s at this stage of the buying process, when you’re looking at different options, that you should set a budget. Do some research to understand how much roughly you can expect to pay for the sort of level of product that you’re looking for. Then match that to your own personal circumstance and how much you can afford to spend. This will really help you in narrowing down the right product for you.
Price of Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle
So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle.
We run regular scans across the web to find the best prices for the products that we review, from a range of cycling retailers. The best price we managed to find Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £33.99 in our latest search.
Based on this price we’ve scored it 9.5 out of 10 for price.
Average price of Saddles
Next we wanted to look at how much you can expect to pay, on average, for Saddles.
We found 596 in the Saddles category over at Chain Reaction Cycles. We looked at the average price of the products within this category and found the average is £91.63, making it below average at £33.99.
It’s sometimes helpful to look at how much the prices can vary. Especially when setting yourself a budget, or when trying to understand just how much you could spend on Saddles. We found that the most expensive product currently available was £424.00, whilst the cheapest we managed to find was £2.99.
With 596 products available we worked out that 509 cost more than Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle and 85 were cheaper.
Cost of Selle Italia products
At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 136 products from Selle Italia, of which 129 were in the Saddles category.
For now though we’re looking at Selle Italia branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £103.35 making this product below average.
You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Selle Italia product we found was £8.06 and the highest price we could find from them was £424.00.
Of the 136 from Selle Italia, 119 were more expensive than Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle and 16 were cheaper.
How much are Selle Italia Saddles?
We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Selle Italia products that are listed in the Saddles category.
The average price of the 129 products that match this search was £107.83, with the cheapest coming in at £8.99 and highest price was £424.00. With the average being £107.83, Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle comes in below average.
118 products that meet this search were more expensive than Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle and 10 were cheaper.
Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle Reviews
Reading reviews is an amazing way of getting a good feel for a product without actually being able to try it or see it first.
There are two different types of reviews, and we also recommend reading both.
1. Expert reviews – In the cycle industry there are loads of really reliable trusted resources for expert reviews. For example if you’re looking to buy a new bike, BikeRadar Bike Reviews are great.
2. Customer reviews – these are probably your best resource for information. There’s no finances or influence involved, they’re purely just honest reviews from customers that have bought and used the product. The reason we love customer reviews so much is because no matter if their view is good or bad, there’s a very good chance that it will be honest and unbiased.
Our best advice is to head over to Chain Reaction Cycles and read the Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle reviews there.
Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.2 out of 10. The average review score for all products in the Saddles category at Chain Reaction Cycles is 4.4 out of 5.
Owner reviews, as we say, are one of the most important pieces of research that we can do before we buy. So, with that in mind, if you do go on to buy Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle or another similar product, like Selle Italia SLS Flow FEC Saddle reviews or ISM PN4.0 Saddle 2020 reviews we’d love you to leave a review in the comments below. It will really help future buyers just like you, when they’re looking to buy Saddles.
Brand
As we said in the pricing part of the review, brand is a really important consideration, but especially so when looking to buy Saddles. But as you’re probably already aware, you’re on to a great choice if you do go with Selle Italia, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.
YouTube Video of Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle
Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle reviews.
Summary
Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle. We’d say that as long as it fits your budget and meets your expectations in terms of features/spec…it’s a really strong contender. That’s why we’ve scored it a massive 9.1/10 overall.
Further product details
- Product ID 1: 26995388953
- Product ID 2: 594313UK
- Brand: Selle Italia
- RRP: £0
- EAN: 5057567123128
- Description: Selle Italia SLS Friction Free SaddleThis versatile saddle features a hard-wearing Fibre-Tek cover construction, which makes it perfect at handling the increased pressure from longer rides on your road bike or mountain bike. Selle Italia has also equipped this model with a Friction Free design that features an innovative shape without a friction zone between your inner thigh and the saddle. This means that you’ll benefit from its ultra-thin profile with no friction on your travels.Features: Cover Material: Fibra-Tek Rail Material: FEC Alloy Padding Material: Minimal padding Use: Road, MTB Dimensions: 145x275mm Part Numbers: 047A203AL0001 Weight: 250gBuy Selle Italia Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Full Category: Components > Saddles
- Unisex
- -33.99
- Adult
Other options for Saddles
As you’d imagine there are so many options out there when buying Saddles. 596 in fact.
A few of our other favourites that we spotted when researching Selle Italia SLS Friction Free Saddle included,
Fabric Line-S Pro Team Flat Saddle 2020 reviews, Fabric Line-S Race Flat Saddle 2020 reviews, or we really liked the look of Fabric Line-S Elite Flat Saddle 2020 reviews as another alternative.