Originally Posted by
topflightpro
I should add that I recently read the Adamo is designed to be ridden closer to the nose. I was riding it farther back, which made it not work for me. I felt like I had to ride bow legged on it. Had I ridden it farther up, it may have been fine.
Exactly!
The Adamo saddles are designed for one to perch one's "sit bones" on the two prongs of the saddle. Then one's perineum can rotate past 90 degrees to downward as one adopts a super-agressive TT position.
It's a really precarious feeling when you do it right.
This is difficult to get used to on a road/TT bike. I've heard stories of people slipping off of them and wrecking on the road.
I wouldn't suggest it for the track because fixed gear makes getting into and staying in the right position that much harder. And if you slip off at high cadences, recovering and not crashing is near impossible.
I've seen 1 or 2 top track riders ride them. But, only TT specialists. Not sprint or mass start. The only one that comes to mind is Rebecca Romero (GB, IP/TP specialist) leading up to London 2012.
I had an Adamo that I never took to the track. I used it on the trainer for a few workouts and decided that it wasn't for me for the reasons above. Cobb makes a similar saddle with longer prongs that are connected. I tried that for maybe a week when I was trying to get a deep position for the Kilo. Hated it, too.
I've tried maybe a dozen saddles on the track, and I keep coming back to the Fizik Arione (now called the Classic Arione). It's really good for track as it is long and flat, which allows for one to slide up and back depending on how you are pedaling (back for power, up for spin).