Anybody using one, I love my spoon but I'd love to drop a bit of weight. So has anyone used the Charge Knife?

Anybody using one, I love my spoon but I'd love to drop a bit of weight. So has anyone used the Charge Knife?

Prefer it to the Spoon but still not completely convinced ... more miles required no doubt.

I've had a knife for a good while. It is pretty comfy, and I have no problems using it - was the default saddle on my singlespeed, but more time spent out of saddle than geared bike. Have spoon on fat bike currently, as spend more time sitting down. Read into that what you will

If you like the Spoon, I'd stick with it. Finding a comfortable saddle has not been easy for me. I've tried the Charge Knife, Fizik Arione CX, Fizik Aliante and the Fizik Anatares with varying degrees of failure. The Fizik Kurve Chameleon is definitely the most comfortable I have yet found, but that's relative.

Another question is now, how stupid will a white one look on my black KM bearing in mind I've just bough white rims? (Necessity not preference)

2/3rds of my bikes are fitted with Knife saddles the rest are Spoons, the Knife is a slimmed down (lighter) version but firmer I reckon

Ben98 wrote:Another question is now, how stupid will a white one look on my black KM bearing in mind I've just bough white rims? (Necessity not preference)

Get some white grips and an outfit like this, and it'll be fine:

Ben98 wrote:Another question is now, how stupid will a white one look on my black KM bearing in mind I've just bough white rims? (Necessity not preference)

Ive got a white Knife on my white Voodoo and a black Knife on my black Ragley

They are 24.99 at rutland cycles right now...

Joshvegas wrote:They are 24.99 at rutland cycles right now...

Hence the wondering about the white one

get it if you don't like the colour recover it.

Sorted.

Oh great was just looking for something like this!

Err.. how fiddly is recovering a saddle? White is only because I can't find a good tartan one!

Crap the white ones just went out of stock!

Err.. how fiddly is recovering a saddle? White is only because I can't find a good tartan one!

I've got a tartan saddle ... 'tis a Gusset something or other. Very much like a Spoon, they might even be one and the same.

Joshvegas wrote:get it if you don't like the colour recover it.

Sorted.

I knew of someone who bought a bargain white leather jacket but really wanted a black jacket, so...

...he took a black marker pen to it

(it was me btw)

Edit it wasn't me!

the jacket um... convincing....

Recovering is pretty simpe.

Recovvering in tartan... already done that before just be sure to seal it in some way.

I ended up buying a knife and a pan.

The finish of the knife is poor compared to the spoon but seems nice.


The pan though... feels pretty lush

I've got 2 Knives. One on the road bike, and one on my SS MTB.
Road bike one is bloody lovely, rode the LEL in perfect comfort. One on the MTB feels hard, but not an issue since its SS so I'm out the saddle a lot, and its full suspension, so more comforting.
I also have a spoon on my other MTB, and that's just right.

26" full suspension belt drive singlespeed - you have carved a new niche, well done

With upside-down forks too. Which I've thought about converting to 29" so the bike is a 69er for extra niche points.
Its chuffing good fun to ride.

ir_bandito wrote:With upside-down forks too. Which I've thought about converting to 29" so the bike is a 69er for extra niche points.
Its chuffing good fun to ride.

Do it!

Or 650b+ just because I can in those forks...
Would that make it a 67.5+er?