Selle SMP Blaster Saddle Reviews
Review score: 8.6/10 – Updated April, 2024
Latest Price: £150.53 – Save 28% (RRP: £209.99)
Take a look now to discover what makes Selle SMP Blaster Saddle worthy of a review score of 8.6 out of 10.
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Selle SMP Blaster Saddle features
Selle SMP Blaster Saddle
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Spec 1
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Colour: Black, Fluo Yellow Other Saddles found with this Spec: 2 |
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Spec 2
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Size: 131mm Wide Other Saddles found with this Spec: 3 |
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Spec 3
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Gender: Unisex Other Saddles found with this Spec: 2527 |
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Spec 4
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Option: Steel Rails Other Saddles found with this Spec: 76 |
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Feature 1
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Cover: Real leather (black), Microfiber (colored) Other Saddles found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 2
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Dimensions: 266 x 131mm Other Saddles found with this feature: 3 |
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Feature 3
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Padding: Minimalist foam elastomer Other Saddles found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 4
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Body: Nylon 12 reinforced with Carbon Fibre Other Saddles found with this feature: 3 |
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Feature 5
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Rails: AISI 304 Stainless Steel Other Saddles found with this feature: 1 |
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Feature 6
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Recommended For: Road/MTB Other Saddles found with this feature: 2 |
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Feature 7
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Weight: 255g Other Saddles found with this feature: 9 |
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Price
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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 SMP Blaster Saddle.
The first thing is material. Looking at what Selle SMP Blaster 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 SMP 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 SMP Blaster Saddle
So the first aspect of price that we’re going to look at is the price of Selle SMP Blaster 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 SMP Blaster Saddle was over at Chain Reaction Cycles where the price was £150.53 in our latest search.
Based on this price we’ve scored it 8.3 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 above average at £150.53.
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 93 cost more than Selle SMP Blaster Saddle and 502 were cheaper.
Cost of Selle SMP products
At Chain Reaction Cycles we found 51 products from Selle SMP, of which 43 were in the Saddles category.
For now though we’re looking at Selle SMP branded products in all categories. The average price of these products was £121.85 making this product above average.
You’ll also be interested to know that the cheapest Selle SMP product we found was £20.00 and the highest price we could find from them was £195.00.
Of the 51 from Selle SMP, 28 were more expensive than Selle SMP Blaster Saddle and 22 were cheaper.
How much are Selle SMP Saddles?
We then wanted to get a bit more specific and only look at Selle SMP products that are listed in the Saddles category.
The average price of the 43 products that match this search was £139.45, with the cheapest coming in at £49.99 and highest price was £195.00. With the average being £139.45, Selle SMP Blaster Saddle comes in above average.
28 products that meet this search were more expensive than Selle SMP Blaster Saddle and 14 were cheaper.
Selle SMP Blaster 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 SMP Blaster Saddle reviews there.
Based on what we’ve seen in terms of reviews for Selle SMP Blaster Saddle, it really does look like a great buy. So for the review score, we’ve scored it 8.6 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 SMP Blaster Saddle or another similar product, like Ergon SMD2 Comp Saddle reviews or Ergon SMD2 Pro Titanium Saddle 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 SMP, as they’re a fantastic brand, making amazing products.
YouTube Video of Selle SMP Blaster Saddle
Below we’ve embedded a video from YouTube where we’ve searched for Selle SMP Blaster Saddle reviews.
Summary
Overall, we’ve been hugely impressed by the quality, price, reviews and features of Selle SMP Blaster 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 8.6/10 overall.
Further product details
- Product ID 1: 25010932103
- Product ID 2: 584051UK
- Brand: Selle SMP
- RRP: £209.99
- EAN: 8032568524805
- Description: Selle SMP Blaster SaddleThe Selle SMP Blaster Saddle features a narrow body to make it ideal for riders with a small to narrow sit bone width. It also has a large central cut-out to reduce pressure on the perineum area and a nose that drops away to prevent numbness in sensitive areas. Long distance comfort over a mixture of terrains has been well accounted for too, as the rear section of the saddle is raised to put you in an optimum pedalling position and reduce pressure on your coccyx.Features: Cover: Real leather (black), Microfiber (colored) Dimensions:¬†266 x 131mm Padding:¬†Minimalist foam elastomer Body:¬†Nylon 12 reinforced with Carbon Fibre Rails:¬†AISI 304 Stainless Steel Recommended For:¬†Road/MTB Weight:¬†255gBuy¬†Selle SMP Components¬†from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
- Full Category: Components > Saddles
- Savings percentage from RRP: 28%
- Size: 131mm Wide
- Unisex
- 59.46
- 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 SMP Blaster Saddle included,
Ergon SMD2 Saddle reviews, Selle Italia SLR C59 Saddle reviews, or we really liked the look of Selle Italia SLR X-Cross Flow reviews as another alternative.