{"id":29,"date":"2009-02-16T13:27:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T17:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitness-toolkit.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2009-02-16T13:27:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T17:27:23","slug":"selle-smp-evolution-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=29","title":{"rendered":"Selle SMP Evolution Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love my old bike saddle.\u00a0 The problem is that I couldn&#8217;t get it adjusted just so that I wouldn&#8217;t have numb genitals after 15 minutes of riding.\u00a0 In search of a new saddle, I purchased the Selle SMP Evolution from <a title=\"all3sports.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.all3sports.com\" target=\"_blank\">all3sports.com<\/a>.\u00a0 The price seemed a bit high ($239) for a saddle considering I put it on an $800 bike.\u00a0 But my thinking was that if it alleviated the numbness and potential ED, then it was well worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, I received the saddle and put it on per the instructions.\u00a0 By the way, your English really sucks Selle SMP.\u00a0 I like the tag line:\u00a0 &#8220;Designed on your body.&#8221;\u00a0 Anyway, after a short ride around the block after having already worked out that day, I thought it would be good.\u00a0 Saturday came and I took it out for a 16 mile bike ride.\u00a0 Granted, there was a lot of standing to get up hills, and therefore I couldn&#8217;t say I was in the saddle for the whole time, but the results were astonishing!\u00a0 I suffered no numbness at all.\u00a0 Today I went out for my usual 14 miler and the results are the same.\u00a0 I spend more time in the aero position and no numbness.\u00a0 As for general comfort, it doesn&#8217;t seem to do a better job than my last saddle (Selle San Marco Tri saddle), but I am a firm believer in this awesome saddle.\u00a0 The $239 plus shipping costs was well worth it!<\/p>\n<p>Only 30 miles of riding and not all in the aero position is probably a bit early to tell how things will really work out, so I will update the post in a week or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom reviews his new Selle SMP Evolution saddle<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/?p=29\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[12,18,21,37,38,91,93,313],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomheller.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}