Schwinn Comfort Bike Seat, Quilted or Foam Padded Bike Saddle, Various Styles, Weather-Resistant Cover, Easily Attaches to Most Standard Seatposts

I ordered this for my wife's beach cruiser bike. Her biggest issue when going on long bike rides was that the seat that came with it was uncomfortable. Having gone through a quest to find the right mountain bike saddle, I knew that not all seats are created equal, but since we don't have a bike shop nearby I was going to have to rely more on customer reviews. So I searched on Amazon and read up on a few different seats, but this was the one that I felt got the most glowing reviews, especially for people who are riding bikes like my wife's - just a simple cruiser for easy riding. If you're on a mountain or road bike this seat probably won't be your first choice... but then again if you're on one of those you're probably not reading this. But for a relaxing bike ride on a cruiser, this seat has been perfect. Installation was easy, I only needed a small crescent wrench to put it on and adjust it. Once it was on my wife took it out for a spin. Me being me, after about 5 minutes I wanted a full product update. She just shrugged and said it was better than her old seat, at least she thought so, but maybe we could find a pad for it to make it even more comfortable. Hmm, not the glowing review I expected, but having experience riding on the wrong saddle for too long, I knew that sometimes it takes a few days for our rear ends to get over the punishment from having the wrong support. A couple of days later she and my daughter went on a long bike ride while I was at work. Her first words to me were that her seat was incredible (ah, there's that glowing review!) and that she was comfortable the entire way. Usually within about 1/2 mile or so, her old seat began getting uncomfortable, but on this seat she rode an entire 4 mile trip without any discomfort whatsoever. She said it felt like she could have easily kept going without any discomfort, it was that comfortable - no additional pad needed! She really loves going for bike rides now... it's amazing what being able to ride comfortably can do to really improve your enjoyment of a good old bike ride. If you're looking for a comfortable wide-style bike saddle, this is a solid bet. For the price especially, you're going to find it hard to beat.

According to Amazon, I bought this Schwinn noseless comfort seat in December of 2015, and am just now (April 2021) buying another because there was a killer deal plus a coupon so I wanted to have a spare stashed. For the last few years, I've ridden my exercise bike (Schwinn 126) an hour every morning, 18-19 miles in crosstraining mode at 13/16 resistance - but it took me a while to work up to that. So, after nearly six years of steady use at increasing lengths of time and intensity, the old seat is just now starting to show its age. The vinyl is starting to crack a bit at the front, not all the way through, just that top layer, a shallow network of small cracks. I'm thinking that the foam is probably pretty beat down by now too, but it's still comfortable. Honestly, if the deal hadn't come up, I wouldn't have given a thought to replacing it yet. The bike is indoors, right next to a large window that's nearly always open, so that's exponentially more sun exposure than a bike seat that lives in the garage or hallway. The advice from others to position the seat a bit further back than usual correlates with my experience. Also, you can ignore that diagram showing that this style of seat is most appropriate for an upright or slightly bent over riding posture; I ride in every position from standing on the pedals and upright to full-on crouch, and this seat works fine. In fact, for me, the comfort aspect of a noseless seat is even more pronounced in full crouch/grind/beast mode. I think this seat is what helped me increase my rides, because I remember climbing off the old seat after a workout and going to the bathroom and WOW did that hurt, like "do I have kidney stones" kind of fire. Haven't had that since I got this seat, although I've experienced it a few times when I've ridden an actual bike with a typical bike seat for a half day or so. Maybe I'm just tender down there, it sure as heck ain't extraordinary proportions. A noseless bike seat DOES take some getting used to. Among other things, because there's no central nose, once your butt reaches the front edge you could slip off. If you take your hands off the handlebars, it may take a bit more core stability to keep from sliding too far forward. I think at one point I adjusted the tilt to prevent slipping forward, but that was a long time ago. Bottom (ha!) line: this is my ideal bike seat, proven by my buying a second before the first one wore all the way out just to make sure I'd have one on hand.

I got this seat for my mountain bike because I realized that I wasn't a hardcore mountain biker who wants the lightest seat possible with best control; I'm a casual city rider who hates pain between the legs and worries about his man parts. So I was looking for a comfort seat. I compared this with the seats that have two pads and have glowing reviews from people with prostate problems and this was, well, cheaper. It also looks a bit more comfy. This seat is comfortable to sit on. Very comfortable. Like an office chair or better. If all we did on bikes was sit, this would be the best seat money can buy. However, we also pedal on bikes, and that creates a bit of a problem. Specifically, as you pedal your legs push down on the front edge of the seat on the downstroke and after a while it hurts. Normal bikes (not the cruiser kind) have the center of the pedals right under the seat. That's fine if your seat is a narrow ridge that is squashing your man parts and your legs are dangling off the sides, but if you are sitting on a nice comfy office chair seat, your legs come out in front. So the situation is not optimal. That's why most other prostate protecting comfort seats look really scary: the pads are out behind the seat post, so the post is precariously positioned between your legs. I haven't really tried them, so I won't comment more on them. Anyway, if you have a bike with a comparatively upright natural position (high handle bars and the like) and especially if you have a bike that has the pedals out in front of the seat, then you are going to absolutely love this seat. When you just sit in it, there really is no pressure. It's shaped like your backside. It's padded. It's really nice. But I don't have one of those bikes. I have a trek 4500 mountain bike. So here's how I handled it... At first I lowered the seat, but it feels funny because your knees go out in front and then bend almost underneath you, putting an undue proportion of the work on your thighs. So I raised it up to normal seat height (about the height of the handlebars). Then we run into the upper leg pain from the front edge of the seat. The manual says to keep the seat level, but what do they know? so I angled the seat forward. Ahhh, very comfortable to pedal. And if I want to just sit and coast, I can sit just a bit farther back, almost on the back edge. Not as comfy as an office chair, but pretty good still. I can sit or pedal on this forever (from a soft tissue point of view). Pain between my legs? Zero. Worries for my future sexual prowess? Zero. I love this seat and this setup. When I see a bump on the road, I don't worry about lifting myself off to prevent nasty shocks being transmitted to my most delicate areas. I just sit down and relax. Shocks are spread throughout your bottom. Ahhhh. Makes me want to invest in a recumbent bike next time. But is there a downside? Oh yes, having the seat angled forward puts a lot of your weight on your handlebars. Result: a crazy workout for your arms. I don't think I have sufficient arm strength to ride this all day long. I never really ride more than my 5 mile commute anyway, so I don't mind a bit. In fact, it's kind of nice. Now riding my bike gives me wicked triceps as well as amazing leg muscles. So what I'm saying here is, you need to adjust adjust adjust this seat until it's right. Try crazy positions. You might end up very happy like me. Or maybe not. There's some talk here about trouble controlling the bike. I haven't noticed any significant changes from a horned seat. I guess I wasn't using the horn between my legs much for control. I tend to keep my hands on the handlebars. One time I do notice things a little funny is when I get up to pedal hard for some reason. That's fine, but then when I go to sit back down, my backside has to feel around quite a bit more before I find the seat than it did when I used horned seats. It's not a big deal. Certainly it won't make me want to trade this seat in for anything else. What would I tell the schwinn people if I was giving them feedback? Well, they should probably address the issue of the seat positioning the rider too far forward on the bike. I wouldn't go to an extreme and start changing fundamentals, but they could have the little bars under the seat that attach to the post come forward just a bit more than they do. That would probably open up this seat to a lot of people. Other than that the design is pretty great. This seat has eliminated all my backside and between-the-legs pain, which was seriously hindering my enjoyment of cycling. Forget all those people saying you should wear special biking shorts (yeah right), get your seat professionally microfit (doesn't help), or just wait out the pain. This seat takes some adjustment and a bit of getting used to, but I would never go back. In fact, without this seat I won't cycle. One other small peeve: there is a velvety fake suede surface to this seat. It's fine (in fact it kind of grips your backside) except when you leave your bike in the rain or snow...it holds water and snow more than the usual fake leather stuff. ======== Update November 2012 ===================== I've been using this saddle for several years now and I have finally become annoyed enough with its shortcomings to replace it. Specifically, at normal angles, if you ride for a while, the front edge of the seat digs in to the back of your legs and it's uncomfortable. You can angle it up higher but then it doesn't support much of your weight and you are constantly sliding off. Not to mention, the bars underneath don't come very far forward, so the seat is always a little too far forward on my bike (it would be better if my frame was bigger). I bought the Hobson Easyseat dual pad bicycle seat to replace it and it is much, much better for the following reasons: * The two seat pads rotate somewhat as your legs move, so they can support you all through the stroke. * They do an even better job of keeping pressure off your junk than this seat does. * The surface does not absorb water, has higher friction (so you don't slide off) and overall has a better build quality. It's a bit heavier and a little bit more expensive than this saddle, but I would definitely suggest using the Hobeson instead of this one unless you have a very upright-style bike with pedals out in front of you and a very upright posture. TL;DR version: Get the Hobeson Easyseat instead.

I have an old vintage Schwinn Airdyne AD4 stationery bike which is not a bad model at all - they were made with a lot more metal components than the current Airdynes, and are great for burning off calories in a low easy cardio zone or by doing Tabatas. You can find them online pretty cheaply for the quality - but like most of the Airdyne models, the stock bicycle seat feels horrible to most people - hard as a rock, you always feel like you're about to slide off, and the your weight seems to be borne by the very sensitive perineal region. A gel seat cover offered only minimal relief. But this seat installed quickly in a couple of minutes - just loosen the bolt holding on the old seat, slide it off, and slide on the new one. Push the seat back and forth before tightening to adjust the distance from the handles to the desired location, then push down or up on the front to adjust the seat to a comfortable position for your anatomy, then tighten the bolt and you're done. Very comfortable ride now and a very reasonable price.

I've tried a lot of bike saddles, including gel, foam, leather, Brooks, road saddles, cruiser saddles, etc. I've learned that what feels "cush for your tush" for a few miles becomes painful like a torture device when riding longer miles. Your body tells you what is not working if you will observe how the pain builds as it settles in. I ride a cruiser ebike with butterfly handlebars. So, I am sitting at a 90º upright angle on the saddle. My weight comes down on my sit bones. We often say, "where the rubber meets the road," when we speak about performance issues. With a bicycle saddle, what matters most is the saddle surface contour because that's where, ahem, "the bun meets the saddle seat." Our backside buns are round--varying in degrees from person to person but round. But look at this saddle surface: it has raised foam mounds on either side rising above the center saddle surface--which is a channel--just like so many inexpensive bike saddles. The foam-packed wings or sides are pressure packed. Sure it feels soft at first. But the contour of the saddle surface is NOT SHAPED TO FIT YOUR BACKSIDE. That raised foam mound is now a pressure point that will concentrate more and more pressure against your sit bones with longer time in the saddle. Ever walked with a shoe that has a bubble in the bottom footbed and tried to ignore it but you couldn't for long? Sooner, not later, you had to remove the shoe. That's what we have here: a simple misfit that creates a pressure point. The foam bubble pushes against your backside bun, creating pressure, and your body weight is bearing down on your sit bones which are pressing against the foam mile after mile. Thus, this saddle is guaranteed to create a pressure pain point at your sit bones when you ride for more than a few miles. Take a look at the Planet Bike Comfort Tractor Bike Seat. That saddle surface is contoured to the shape of your backside with no raised pressure points--I'm not saying that saddle is perfect. What that seat does is spread your body weight evenly over a larger surface area. What this Schwinn seat does is focus your body weight on two raised pressure points--albeit soft--that will become painful after a some miles. It's worth saying that young people have more muscle sinew around their sitting bones which provides a padded cushion, and old dogs have pointy bones. Thus, this saddle may work well for younger riders. Regardless, I suspect that beyond 12 miles or so, you'll understand exactly what I'm saying. I liked the 13-inch spread. The elastomer suspension worked OK but the Planet Bike Comfort Tractor Bike Saddle had a better elastomer system. This saddle is 3 to 4 stars for younger riders, about 2, maybe 3 stars--at best--for older riders, depending on how far you ride. The Cloud-9 Cruiser Contour Saddle is another bike saddle that spreads your body weight evenly over the entire saddle with a contoured surface. But to understand what I'm really talking about, see the YLG Oversized Comfort Bike Seat or the Laterelle Ergonomic Comfort Seat. Assuming you ultimately choose a proper saddle, it can take up to a year for your backside to adjust to the saddle, since you're sitting on the working muscles and they are being compressed in different dimensions by a new saddle.

Lots of reviews, both good and bad, but I am afraid we also did not like these seats. First off, it seems to be a fine, quality made product but the comfort factor is just not there. I thank those reviewers who pointed out that adjustment was critical to their riding experience and that comfort may also be related to the style, size and dimensions of the bike they ride - and maybe the dimensions of our respective behinds too. Anyhow, we bought two for our matching 26" Schwinn trail/cruiser bikes purchased recently from the big box store. After about an hour of riding (and numerous stops to adjust her seat height, pitch, forward movement) my wife just said NO WAY. I put her old seat back on as she professed a new appreciation of that standard bike seat. However, wanting desperately to find a more comfortable seat (and wishing to take the advice of a reviewer who "learned" to love this seat) I gave it a few days, made dozens of fine and course adjustments, but could find no position that was tolerable, let alone comfortable. I truly wish this seat would have suited my wife and myself (we bought two), but they are going back. No matter how I adjusted it, it was awful. Tilt it too far back and it hurts the backs of your upper legs as you peddle, too much tilt forward and there is no escaping the sensation that you're falling forward off the bike. I suppose there is room for varied opinions on it's comfort. However, I would gently but firmly point out that it is obviously much more difficult to dig in and pedal hard while sitting. Finally, it is far less stable when leaning for turns, etc. It is important that I do not criticize those that seem to like this seat - I envy them and I have no doubt that what they say is their true experience! Still, from the many reviews you can see that this seat is not universally loved. Whatever the reason, our search for a truly comfortable seat goes on and we couldn't be more disappointed that this seat didn't fill the bill for us. If in doubt I think you should buy it, try it and decide for yourself. Here's wishing you smooth rides and no more sore bottoms with this seat - but be prepared to be shocked the first time you climb on this new seat ready for a heavenly ride. It might be more like the very cool looking seat from hell!

Great for stationary bike, the fact that it doesn’t have a nose, makes it perfect for long sitting and writing. I was able to ride my bike for 30 minutes straight comfortably because of the seat I had to adjust a few times, but I would highly recommend this seat over any other seat that I have had I’ve had two already, it’s an expensive and easy to install and is a all-around great seat. I would definitely buy it again if I needed to.

I used this to replace the factory seat on a cheap stationary bike, and my ride is a lot more comfortable now.