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Bell GelTech Ultimate Comfort Bicycle Seat from Bell
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Product Description The BellŪ GelTech bicycle seat is crafted with Honeycomb AirGel pockets to combine the softness of gel and shock absorption of air, right under pelvic pressure points. SoftShox elastomer spring technology helps to ensure a smooth ride and an ergonomic channel relieves pressure.
Customer Reviews
Pads rupture and comfort gel dribbles onto floor! Posted 31 January 2007
Attached this seat to a Home exercycle. We give it light to moderate use. Within 2 months one gel capsule sprung a tear, which widened and began to spill gel out on the floor. I thought this was just an unlucky anomaly, until at four months the other gel pad opened at the rear seam, widened to a 3 inch gap, and also began spilling the sticky gel onto the floor. We are not heavyweight people! The gel pad system on this Ultimate comfort seat is faulty.
Bell GelTech Ultimate Comfort Bicycle Seat Posted 03 November 2006
This is a good comfortable seat I would recomand to any body, I like it a lot and it is good price from Amazon store, thank you.
Charles Tran
Huge improvement over most bike seats. Posted 25 October 2006
I'm very tiny, and this bike seat feels terrific to me. I find it to be very squishy and forgiving over the bumps--I noticed the most difference from my old standard-issue bike seat riding over train tracks. I do have a tendency to slide forward, and if you do, it's not as comfortable, but if you can sit back on the widest part of the seat, it's great.
4/5 stars because, actually, the little gel pads peeled off the seat. They still stay stuck most of the time, but I have gotten off my bike with a gel pad stuck to my pants...
Designed for the broad of beam. Not very comfortable. Posted 15 October 2006
One of the metal springs broke in my bicycle seat so I bought the Bell GelTech as a replacement. I wasn't impressed.
* It's a very wide seat and quite short front to back. This apparently is the design for a larger, ahem, bottom. I'm an average sized guy and mine didn't fit very well.
* The seat feels great when you push your fingers in it. The gel feels nice and squishy. But...when you sit on it the comfort evaporates. After riding 6 miles on this seat it felt like I was sitting on a concrete slab with a little padding on it. I didn't think it was comfortable at all.
* Turn the seat over and you can see what looks like two large springs, one on each side. This would be great to cushion bumps. Unfortunately, they just "look" like springs. They're rubber disks and, yes, they do compress over bumps but they're nothing at all like springs. And you can really feel the bumps.
* Finally, the seat looks like it belongs on a circus bicycle. It's garish and ugly and people will point at you and laugh. Well, that may be a bit harsh. I was willing to live with the ugly looks if it worked. But it didn't.
I ended up buying a simple Schwinn "memory foam" model for about $17. It was the only Schwinn model my local store had. My guess is any of the Schwinn models would have been fine. The one I bought doesn't have springs either but it is much more comfortable than the Bell GelTech. And people have stopped laughing and pointing.
Good Overall Seat Posted 25 July 2006
I'm fairly large and bought this seat to get some added comfort. The seat seems to be good quality and overall I like it. I was expecting it to somewhat more padded and comfortable than it actually is.
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