Bontrager Inform WSD

[Owlie]

You know, I wish I knew what year mine is. I think I threw out the packaging. The saddle has blue swirly design...looks just like the ones I see on their site, but those are black swirls. I think mine has steel rails (but I'm not positive).

2009: http://store.trekbikes.com/jump.jsp?...2C4%2C15%2C430

2010:
http://store.trekbikes.com/jump.jsp?...ProductID=2521
I have a feeling that the swirl color varies, depending on the width of the saddle...Though that would mean that if it was a 2010, they would be green..

Apparently they both have steel rails...I swear I was looking at something that said one has Ti...
Oh. Their own product page is confused. http://bontrager.com/model/09441. The part description says Ti, the product description says steel. Geez.

[zoom-zoom]

Hmmm...they look the same. I wonder if there is any marked difference, other than cosmetic...?

[Owlie]

Hmmm...they look the same. I wonder if there is any marked difference, other than cosmetic...?

Given the reputation that Bontrager saddles have had in the past, I'd really like to know!

[ny biker]

If it helps, with the Affinity and Evoke, the RXL and RL have ti rails, while the R has steel rails.

Originally I think there were at least 2 different versions of the Inform, in terms of the amount of padding. So there might have been a difference in rails, too.

[GLC1968]

The 2009 has blue swirls, the 2010 has white. I have one of each and there is zero difference between them as far as I can tell.

Zoom-zoom - why am I not the least bit surprised that the InForm RL is the saddle for you, too?

SarahMN - if you are 135 center to center, I'd go for the 140. I'm 138 or so, and ride the 140 on all of my road bikes.

[zoom-zoom]

SarahMN - if you are 135 center to center, I'd go for the 140. I'm 138 or so, and ride the 140 on all of my road bikes.

Interesting...I'm 130 and am on the 150. I've wondered if 1 size narrower would work, too...

[GLC1968]

Interesting...I'm 130 and am on the 150. I've wondered if 1 size narrower would work, too...

I never tried wider in this saddle. In general, I'm always shooting for the narrowest saddle I can make work to avoid chaffing the upper thighs (which happened when I tried the Terry Butterfly and is the reason I switched to narrower men's saddles before Specialized and Bontrager started making women's saddles in widths).

[Owlie]

Interesting...I'm 130 and am on the 150. I've wondered if 1 size narrower would work, too...

Interesting! I'm somewhere in the 125-130 range (I got one number, LBS got the other). I'm using a 143 Jett. I'm not sure I want to go too much narrower, but will I really notice 1.5mm on each side?

[Owlie]

If it helps, with the Affinity and Evoke, the RXL and RL have ti rails, while the R has steel rails.

Originally I think there were at least 2 different versions of the Inform, in terms of the amount of padding. So there might have been a difference in rails, too.

Interesting. The men's version of the Inform RXL has Ti rails, but the inconsistency in the RL is still there. The $99 price tag on the 2009 would put it in line with the current lower-end Jett with cro-mo rails...but my Jett, which is the much older one (with the gray "sit spots"--I got it in clearance at the LBS), has a carbon (or carbon-reinforced, can't tell) shell and Ti rails...and was also $99.99 originally. Maybe the Inform is just the odd one out.
The 2009 picture appears to say "Hollow SS" on the rail. So that's settled. Nothing on the 2010.