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Fizik Aliante Adaptive Brings 3D-Printed Padding Consolation to Traditional Curved Saddle

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The newest to affix their 3D-printed lineup, the brand new Fizik Aliante Adaptive is a curved-top or ‘waved profile’ saddle optimized for endurance cyclists preferring a planted place on the bike over lengthy distances. It incorporates a wider tail on the again that step by step sloped right down to the nostril, and longer total lengths. Fizik calls it a design made for improved stability and extra even weight distribution for the longest dropbar rides.

Fizik Tempo Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed endurance saddle

Fizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, side profile

The Aliante has lengthy been a favourite of street riders cranking out the miles, and ultra-distance racers, and even gravel & bikepacking riders who sit and spin in the identical place, hour-after-hour. Actually, for a saddle the place riders don’t transfer round a lot, it looks as if the right one to learn from the Adaptive tech.

Fizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R3 topFizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R3 top
(Photographs/Cory Benson)

Now with the customized ‘zonal cushioning‘ that solely 3D-printing can actually ship, the Fizik Aliante Adaptive can present elevated assist stiffness beneath the sit bones. And on the identical time presents softer cushioning within the nostril and all through the remainder of the saddle, for extra even weight distribution and improved consolation.

What’s new?

Fizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R3 angled sideFizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R3 angled side

This new Aliante Adaptive is claimed to function a flatter floor total for even higher unfold of stress when seated.

Fizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R3 underside detailFizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R3 underside detail

It makes use of the identical fashion of carbon fiber-reinforced nylon base as the opposite Adaptive R1 & R3 saddles, with a slender stress aid cutout that you simply solely actually see from beneath the saddle.

Fizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R3 zonal cushioning detailFizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R3 zonal cushioning detail

Apart from that, it’s the large shift to the open hexagon-shaped Adaptive 3D-printed padding for the basic curved saddle form. Created with Digital Mild Synthesis stereolithography printing on Carbon Inc machines, the honeycomb construction permits for various ranges of assist in every zone of the saddle.

Tech Specs

Fizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R1 carbon rail undersideFizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R1 carbon rail underside
  • Size: 275mm
  • Width: 145mm or 150mm
  • Peak at 75mm width: 46mm
  • Size from nostril to 75mm width: 137mm 
  • Shell: carbon fiber-reinforced nylon
  • Rails: 7x9mm oval carbon for R1; 7mm Kium hole ti alloy for R3
  • Weight: 196g (R1 145mm), 201g (R1 150mm), 235g (R3 145mm), 240g (R3 150mm)

Fizik Aliante Adaptive – Pricing, choices & availability

Fizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R1 carbon rail & R3 titaniumFizik Aliante Adaptive 3D-printed carbon-reinforced endurance road bike saddle, R1 carbon rail & R3 titanium
Fizik Aliante Adaptive R1 carbon rail (left) & R3 kium ri rail (proper)

The newly 3D-printed Fizik Aliante Adaptive saddle is out there now in two widths and two spec ranges. The R1 Adaptive saddles with carbon bolstered shells and oval carbon rails promote for $300 / 300€, with black on black graphics. And the marginally heavier R3 Adaptive saddles that swap in hole Kium rails promote for $260 / 260€, with white logos. That’s the identical pricing for the opposite identical spec stage Fizik Adaptive saddles.

Get them now direct from Fizik on-line, or by means of your native bike store.

Fizik.com

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