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Now available in 2 widths, 130mm and 142mm to provide the perfect fit for more riders, regular and large. Use the Spine Concept Evo system to find your perfect fit.
Now available in 2 widths, 130mm and 142mm to provide the perfect fit for more riders, regular and large. Use the Spine Concept Evo system to find your perfect fit.
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Fizik Arione R3 Large Black/Grey

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Fizik Arione R3 Large Black/Grey

Season:2017/2018

Brand:Fizik

Code:74B0SWSA09C65

Now available in 2 widths, 130mm and 142mm to provide the perfect fit for more riders, regular and large. Use the Spine Concept Evo system to find your perfect fit.

Arione R3 is for The Snake: Flexible Spine.

If you are very spinally flexible (far less than 90 degrees between your straight legs and your back when bending over as far as you can, keeping your legs straight a shoulders’ width apart), you are a Snake. You achieve the performance position using your spinal flexibility alone, not rotating your pelvis at all. You will like the flat, narrow and long shape of the Arione.

Features:

  • Shell: Carbon Thermoplastic Composite with Wing Flex™ for freedom of thigh movement
  • Rail: fi’zi:k kium
  • Cover: Microtex
  • Thigh Glides: Microtex
  • Integrated Clip System: Yes
  • Length: 275mm
  • Width: 142mm (regular) / 152mm (large)
  • Weight: 200g (regular) / 205g (large)

Fi'zi:k's Arione, Antares & Aliante saddles have been a cornerstone of Flat Harry's since the shop opened in 2015. Introduced in 2009 Fi'zi:k's Spine concept to categorise these saddles has undergone many iterations and as of 2016 is referred to as Spine Concept Evo, with the introduction of regular and large width versions of these saddles. Spine Concept Evo is Fi'zi:k's own system for matching their saddles with riders based on their physiology. It uses three basic saddle designs to accommodate riders with different spinal flexibility and offers regular and large width versions of these saddles for riders with different power:weight ratios. The Arione is for flexible riders with no pelvic rotation, the Antares for moderately flexible riders with some pelvic rotation and the Alainte for un-flexible riders who rely on lots of pelvic rotation to achieve a performance position. The regular width saddles are for riders with relatively high power:weight ratios and the wider saddles are for riders relatively lower power:weight ratios, as lighter, faster riders put less weight on their saddle and vice versa.

Cris has been a dedicated Arione rider for well over a decade now and more recently Miles has joined the ranks of Aliante riders. Their respective flexibility is reflected in their choice of saddle and Fi'zi:k's Spine concept Evo applies perfectly in these instances, both most comfortable on regular width saddles; however Spine Concept Evo isn't right 100% of the time. Whilst Fi'zi:k's refined saddle selection system is a brilliant starting point for choosing a saddle and quite often able to provide the correct saddle choice in a quick and simple manner; there's a lot of riders who deviate from the saddle supposedly best suited to their physical attributes. At flat Harry's we're exponents of high quality Bikefit and much like with Bikefit, the rules around Fi'zi:k's saddle system are there to be broken if necessary. Human bodies are unique and whilst catch-all rules may cater to the majority of riders, we pride ourselves on being able to help the minority, who don't necessarily benefit from conventional logic.

As such we stock a full range of Fi'zi:k test saddles in our store for our customers to try out, something we encourage greatly, in order to work out precisely which saddle it is that works for them. In doing this the Spine Concept Evo system is fantastic for establishing which test saddle to start with. As I said in the majority of cases the result will be the saddle that is supposedly going to best suited to you in Fi'zi:k's range, but saddles are highly subjective to the individual and in the instance that the suggested saddle is not for you, we will logically progress through the rest of Fi'zi:k's range, offering test saddle after test saddle, until you find the one you're happy with. We love Fi'zi:k's excellent range of saddles and once you find the correct saddle for yourself, we're sure you will too!

Technical Information

Shell: Composite Glass Co-Injected Nylon With WingFlex
Rail: K:ium (Alloy)
Cover: Thermowelded Microtex
Weight: 210g
Dimesions: 300x142mm
Integrated Clip System compatible: Yes

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