Turbo-Rolls… Which is the more confortable

[24pouces]

I need your opinion.
There's few saddle with the classic Turbo classic design.
They are cool and nice for pre90ies retrobike.
But esthetic is something, but for riding, it's something else.
So which is the more confortable ?

 

[Antstark]

Rolls Titanio.. .added titanium flex makes this my fav riding saddle.

 

[rumpfy]

I've found the Avocet Racing I (not the super early ones), classic Turbo, Turbo Super, and the Rolls all the feel about the same in the comfort department.

Less so the Concor.

 

[raidan73]

I'm a Ritchey Logic whore although I used Turbo and Rolls saddles BITD. When I find the right bike for my Rolls Titanio I'll see how it feels in comparison

 

[feetabix]

Ti rolls.........just!.......

 

[shogun]

Rolls by a whisker.

 

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

The Rolls with Perforated leather top is probably just slightly softer than the turbo same basic shell as noted earlier.

 

[foaf]

Rolls takes the honours, but I'm not sure if the reasoning is sound...
I ride either one of a pair of old fixed beaters to work and back every day (25 hilly miles round trip). One (the 'dry' bike) has a Turbo Special on it and this one sees most action. The other (the 'wet' bike) has a Turbo Bernard Hinault edition on it. Both of these saddles give me butt-ache, as does the standard Turbo gracing my winter training steed (a 70s Dawes Galaxy).
My most ridden road bike, used for anything and everything (except commuting or in the wet), is an early 90s Ribble 653 topped by a textured leather Rolls. This has never ever given me any trouble, whether on a Wednesday evening training run or doing the Coast to Coast in a day.
Perhaps it's time to change my work and winter saddles over to Rolls?

 

[xerxes]

I've got a tatty Rolls kicking about somewhere. I found it quite comfortable, but dreadful in the wet, water soaks through the leather cover and into the padding and you effectively end up sitting on a wet sponge. :?

 

[foaf]

<<I found it quite comfortable, but dreadful in the wet, water soaks through the leather cover and into the padding and you effectively end up sitting on a wet sponge.>>

The only saddle I've found that was good for riding in really wet conditions was a 60s plastic Unicanitor, but that was so hard and unforgiving that it I found it really uncomfortable, wet or not.
I've not found the Turbos or Rolls to be particularly soggy riding in the wet. It rained throughout most of our Coast to Coast in a day and the Rolls never felt unpleasant