update on this saddle is all positive. I've now settled really well with this one, I've done hundreds of kilometres on it now, 4 or 5 100km rides, with no saddle discomfort. Well, I've had fatigue, but not from the saddle. All of my longer rides I've done with my Assos shorts, just to be doubly sure that I'll be comfy. My shorter 30 - 50km rides I've happily done in Sugois and Shebeests.

I'm now questioning whether it's valid to reject a saddle straight up after one or two rides - when I did my first 100km on it, I was really sore and I took it off the bike and was wondering if I should sell it on. But a few people said I should put it back on, give it some time and see if I could toughen up to it. I had my doubts, but did it anyway, as well as taking onboard Koalas opinions on the shorts. But I'm now really happy on it - I'm not sure what changed or if I have 'toughened up'. But on this experience, I'd recommend giving a saddle a bit of time to see if things improve before outright rejecting it.

Sloflin, we're very similar in height and weight, I'm also 5'2" and 121 pounds (55kg). The Evolution doesn't appeal to me - it just seems too lean, the Glider seems like the safer option and originally, that was the model I had in mind to buy. Looking at the specs, I imagine it would have been quite OK, there's not a lot of difference between the Glider and the Stratos. The Glider might be less risky, a safer bet, if you aren't able to easily do a return or a swap if it turns out you don't like it.