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Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £174.89 on Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle review we’re going to look at why it scores 9.2/10 in our review and why we recommend it over many of the other 545 products in the Saddles category. We’ve started by giving you a top level score for each of the key areas when it comes to reviewing these products, these scores include a quality score, price score, review score and an overall score.






Quality

8.3

Price

9.4

Reviews

9.9

Overall

9.2

 

Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle reviews

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Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle Specification

Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle specs

Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle
Feature 1

Rail Material: DNA Carbon

Other Saddles found with this feature: 3

Feature 2

Cover: Microfeel

Other Saddles found with this feature: 40

Feature 3

Padding: PEBAX

Other Saddles found with this feature: 2

Feature 4

Rail Dimensions: 9.8x7mm

Other Saddles found with this feature: 2

Feature 5

Weight: 164g (approx)

Other Saddles found with this feature: 1

Spec 1

Colour: Black-Black, BLACK-RED

Other Saddles found with this spec: 3

Spec 2

Size: Large, Small

Other Saddles found with this spec: 40

Spec 3

Gender: Unisex

Other Saddles found with this spec: 2

Price

£174.89

Number of Reviews

1

Review Score

4.0 / 5

Average score in category: 4.4

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  • . Taking the shape and comfort of Selle San Marco’s full-fit Mantra model and cutting out the centre channel, this Open Fit model provides a more perineum-friendly performance to the day-long rider. Equipped with an elongated, squared-off nose, it gives you plenty of room to find your optimum position for the ride at hand, while the PEBAX-padded rear sections give support and stability to each leg. Attaching via DNA carbon rails for a solid and secure fit, this Mantra is set to carry you to greatness. Features: Rail Material: DNA Carbon Cover: Microfeel Padding: PEBAX Rail Dimensions: 9.8x7mm Weight: 164g (approx) Technologies: PEBAX: Innovative padding with extraordinary technological benefits including ultralight weight. Biofriendly with outstanding shape memory, its features allow the saddle to be lighter and more comfortable. DNA Carbon: The crossing X shape knot (Dynamic Node Action) increases the rigidity of the rail, avoiding useless spin and torsion without compromising comfort. It also allows one of the best forward and backward saddle adjustments on the market. Buy Selle San Marco Components¬†from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
  • Product codes: 8009457129021
  • SMS486WN401

No matter what type of bike product your buying, from the simple accessories through to the full setup of your custom built road bike, there are lots of important considerations that you should take into account, especially when you’re shopping online and unable to test the product first. This is especially true when you’re buying products like Saddles.

Our aim is simple, help you get the very best products for your budget. Whether that’s Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle or an alternative, we’ll do our best to find you unbiased, genuine customer reviews to help you make your decision. We’ve found 545 different products in the Saddles category at Chain Reaction Cycles and we’ve also managed to find 71 products from Selle San Marco (although only 70 of the 71 are in the Saddles category).

Our first piece of advice is for you to spend some time really getting to know what it is you’re looking for. An important feature for one person might be totally pointless and irrelevant to you, so get a good idea of what you want and need from your Saddles. Note down this list of key features that your product must have, that way when you’re comparing alternatives you have a starting point to decide whether one product meets your needs or not.

Price is the next and probably one of the most important factors of a purchase, so it’s really worthwhile spending a bit of time analysing the price of Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Selle San Marco. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle to help you see how the prices stack up.

We start this price analysis by looking at the price you can expect to pay for Saddles. There are 545 different products available at Chain Reaction Cycles, and of those 545, the average price is £88.70. There’s quite a variance in price in this category too with the lowest priced product we found at £4.5 and most expensive was £360.

The next stage we went on to, was to look at the price of products from the brand: Selle San Marco. The average price was £80.14 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £5.5 up to £182.99 with Selle San Marco products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Selle San Marco products that appear specifically in the Saddles category. So you can see that the price of Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle at £174.89 is great value considering the average price of Selle San Marco Saddles is £81.20 and the price varies from £11.99.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £174.89 which represents a £5.10 or 3% saving against RRP. If you think Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle ticks all of your boxes in terms of quality and features then it’s more than likely going to be a winner bearing in mind the price.

Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle Reviews

Reviews are obviously a key part of the buying process when buying any cycle gear, and that goes for Saddles too. Reading reviews if going to be the closest insight you get into how good Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 1 reviews scoring it 4.0 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Selle San Marco. In fact when you consider those points and combine it with the fact that the average review score in the Saddles category is 4.4 and the average score of products from Selle San Marco is 4.4 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Selle San Marco in the Saddles category the average review score is 4.4.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle such a high overall score of 9.2 / 10. It seems to have the perfect combination of features, quality and price making it a great all-rounder.

So our last piece of advice that we can offer is to take your time reading plenty of reviews now, you can see that there are 1 reviews for Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle which score it 4.0, so it’s really worth spending a few minutes reading through lots of these to see what the key advantages or dislikes are. It will really reassure you when you come to buying online.

If you do go on to buy Selle San Marco Mantra Open-Fit Carbon FX Saddle or in fact any of the other Saddles, we would love to hear from you. Sharing your views will really help us to write more comprehensive reviews and we will share these thoughts with customers just like you that are looking to read reviews before they commit to buying.