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Selle SMP Drakon review

We want to ensure that whether you’re spending £10K on a new lightweight race bike, £2 on a cycling water bottle or £194.44 on Selle SMP Drakon, that you’re getting the very best you can get for your money. In today’s Selle SMP Drakon review we’re going to look at why it scores 9.4/10 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

9.1

Price

9.2

Reviews

9.8

Overall

9.4

 

Selle SMP Drakon reviews

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Selle SMP Drakon Specification

Selle SMP Drakon specs

Selle SMP Drakon
Feature 1

Use: Road, MTB

Other Saddles found with this feature: 20

Feature 2

Padding: Foamed elastomer

Other Saddles found with this feature: 25

Feature 3

Body: Carbon fibre filled with Nylon 12

Other Saddles found with this feature: 3

Feature 4

Covering: Real leather for the black models and microfibre for the coloured models

Other Saddles found with this feature: 1

Feature 5

Frame: AISI 304 stainless steel tube

Other Saddles found with this feature: 21

Feature 6

Selle SMP completely free central channel

Other Saddles found with this feature: 2

Feature 7

Original eagle-beak nose offers flat base for efforts when sitting

Other Saddles found with this feature: 2

Feature 8

Raised rear profile avoids pressure on the coccyx when riding on rough roads

Other Saddles found with this feature: 2

Feature 9

Ideal saddle for sports or leisure cycling

Other Saddles found with this feature: 1

Feature 10

Suited for people with a medium-wide pelvises

Other Saddles found with this feature: 1

Spec 1

Colour: Bianchi Green, Italian Green, Green Italian, Blue

Other Saddles found with this spec: 20

Spec 2

Size: 138mm, 138mm

Other Saddles found with this spec: 25

Spec 3

Gender: Male

Other Saddles found with this spec: 3

Price

£194.44

Number of Reviews

216

Review Score

4.4 / 5

Average score in category: 4.4

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  • . The Drakon is the ideal saddle for sports or leisure cycling. It has the same structure as the Forma model, with a medium padding but is padded with elastomer in the supporting points and is particularly suitable for anyone with a medium-wide pelvis Covered in microfibre, it also features the completely open central channel, the original front nose and raised rear support, give these saddles a fascinating aerodynamic style. The Drakon model is the intermediate solution between the Dynamic and Lite 209 models Features: Use: Road, MTB Padding: Foamed elastomer Body: Carbon fibre filled with Nylon 12 Covering: Real leather for the black models and microfibre for the coloured models Frame: AISI 304 stainless steel tube Selle SMP completely free central channel Original eagle-beak nose offers flat base for efforts when sitting Raised rear profile avoids pressure on the coccyx when riding on rough roads Ideal saddle for sports or leisure cycling Suited for people with a medium-wide pelvisesTechnologies: SMP4BIKE: SMP’s set a fundamental objective: “To reduce pressure on the perineum and the consequent pressing of neuro-vascular structures in order to decrease the incidence of genitourinary problems and disorders in cyclists”. To pursue this objective they set further goals: their saddles must have an innovative design and top quality. Research and development activities led to defining exclusive patents with regard to shape, curvature and the dimensions of the various parts that make up the saddle: The nose of the saddle (Beak): The characteristic “beak” shape has been designed to provide a flat base for efforts when sitting, for example when facing long uphill climbs and as help in descents, offering greater bike control using the thighs. Furthermore, the most important thing is that the “sensitive areas” are not pressed upward. The central channel: The central channel’s unusual dimensions permits the “sensitive areas” of the human body not undergo any pressure. Cyclist’s sitting position: Body weight is divided between the rear and the lower part of the ischial tuberosities. The position is helped by the rear profile shaped of the saddle in such a way to avoid pressure on the coccyx when riding on rough roads. The length of the bars/frame: It permits any cyclist to find the correct position on the saddle, making installation particularly simple and efficacious on practically any frame/seat post combination Buy Selle SMP Components from Chain Reaction Cycles, the World’s Largest Online Bike Store.
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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 SMP Drakon 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 46 products from Selle SMP (although only 43 of the 46 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 SMP Drakon and seeing how it stacks up against those offered by different brands or even other alternatives from Selle SMP. Below we’re going to get into the detail of Selle SMP Drakon 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 SMP. The average price was £125.64 and we found that the price varies right from as little as £25.99 up to £194.99 with Selle SMP products.

And finally we thought it would be good to give you an idea of Selle SMP products that appear specifically in the Saddles category. So you can see that the price of Selle SMP Drakon at £194.44 is great value considering the average price of Selle SMP Saddles is £131.98 and the price varies from £34.45.

It’s also worth bearing in mind that we managed to find Selle SMP Drakon during our price scan of several cycle retailers, for the amazing price of £194.44 which represents a £25.56 or 12% saving against RRP. If you think Selle SMP Drakon 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 SMP Drakon 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 SMP Drakon is, without actually trying or buying it. Over at Chain Reaction Cycles we managed to find 216 reviews scoring it 4.4 out of 5. That’s a great result considering the price and quality and the fact that it’s a product made by Selle SMP. 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 SMP is 4.7 it’s a steal. And actually, if you look specifically at products from Selle SMP in the Saddles category the average review score is 4.7.

That’s why you can see it was easy for us to give Selle SMP Drakon such a high overall score of 9.4 / 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 216 reviews for Selle SMP Drakon which score it 4.4, 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 SMP Drakon 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.