Saddle Pressure Mapping

Pre-Fit: Cyclist Survey and Checklist

Once you book your saddle pressure mapping appointment, we will send you an email with a questionnaire to fill out. This gives us information regarding your specific discipline, your challenges, and any injuries or issues you have. By completing this before your appointment, we can prepare for your saddle pressure mapping and plan your appointment specifically for you. 

Step 1: Initial Saddle Evaluation

Every Bike Fit Studio Appointment starts with an initial assessment — whether it is a bike fit, or saddle pressure mapping. We discuss your cycling history, any previous injury issues, points of discomfort, cycling experience, and your goals in cycling.

We then place you on your bike with your current saddle. On this saddle we place the Wiva pressure sensor. With this applied, we begin testing you in motion, and assess the real time data to get an initial capture of your pressure points on the saddle.

Step 2: Evaluation of Pelvis Mobility

After we take our initial capture of your saddle pressure profile, we move onto our next bio-mechanical test.

This test is called the Stork test. The Stork test is designed to assess your pelvis mobility, and identify any issues and imbalances in the pelvis. This will help us to get a better understanding of the data from your initial saddle pressure mapping.

Step 3: Define Most Suitable Saddle

Taking our bio-mechanical tests, and your initial saddle pressure mapping data into account — we begin defining the best saddle for you.

This is based on your anatomical measurements, your cycling discipline, and the issues you may be dealing with. We have a full range of saddles in Bike Fit Studio for you to choose from, along with a test program so you can evaluate it in your own time.

Step 4: Install Saddle and Re-Test

Once the best saddle option has been defined, we move to test again.

The next phase of testing applies the Wiva saddle pressure sensor, and begins gathering real time data as you cycle under real simulated conditions.

Based on consultation with you, and comparison of the data from your initial evaluation — we can evaluate if the saddle is correct for you, your anatomy, and your cycling discipline. If after this evaluation we don’t get the expected result, we repeat this step with various saddles until the best match is found.

Step 5: 10 Day Saddle Testing

Once your ideal saddle is identified, we begin to finalize your saddle pressure mapping appointment.

We know that all scenarios cannot be covered in less than 2 hours. For this reason, we operate a 10 day testing phase post appointment. This allows you to ride on the saddle in your typical conditions. over the distances you are used to. This allows you to confirm that you have the most suitable saddle.

After 10 days, we move onto the final step in our saddle pressure mapping service.

Step 6: Feedback and Decision Making

After 10 days with the saddle, you will return your test saddle to Bike Fit Studio.

If the saddle meets your expectations, you can purchase your selected saddle model here at Bike Fit Studio. As part of the service, we fit your saddle to match the ideal setup that was identified during your saddle pressure mapping appointment.