| | |  |  Bike Seats | Home » » » » Bell GelTech Ultimate Comfort Bicycle Seat | | | | | | | Description: | | The Bell® GelTech™ bicycle seat is crafted with Honeycomb AirGel™ pockets to combine the softness of gel and shock absorption of air, right under pelvic pressure points. SoftShox™ elastomer spring technology helps to ensure a smooth ride and an ergonomic channel relieves pressure. | | | Features: | |
• Anatomic gel pads, shock absorbing foam padding
• Protects from numbness on long distance rides
• Waterproof lycra cover, durable, heavy duty construction, hang card
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 13.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 4.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.93 pounds | | Package Length:
| 11.1 inches | | Package Width:
| 8.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 4.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.7 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 29 reviews |
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45 of 51 found the following review helpful:
Designed for the broad of beam. Not very comfortable.Oct 15, 2006
By John D. Hatch
One of the metal springs broke in my bicycle seat so I bought the Bell GelTech as a replacement. I wasn't impressed.
* It's a very wide seat and quite short front to back. This apparently is the design for a larger, ahem, bottom. I'm an average sized guy and mine didn't fit very well.
* The seat feels great when you push your fingers in it. The gel feels nice and squishy. But...when you sit on it the comfort evaporates. After riding 6 miles on this seat it felt like I was sitting on a concrete slab with a little padding on it. I didn't think it was comfortable at all.
* Turn the seat over and you can see what looks like two large springs, one on each side. This would be great to cushion bumps. Unfortunately, they just "look" like springs. They're rubber disks and, yes, they do compress over bumps but they're nothing at all like springs. And you can really feel the bumps.
* Finally, the seat looks like it belongs on a circus bicycle. It's garish and ugly and people will point at you and laugh. Well, that may be a bit harsh. I was willing to live with the ugly looks if it worked. But it didn't.
I ended up buying a simple Schwinn "memory foam" model for about $17. It was the only Schwinn model my local store had. My guess is any of the Schwinn models would have been fine. The one I bought doesn't have springs either but it is much more comfortable than the Bell GelTech. And people have stopped laughing and pointing.
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 Useless after two months when gell pads split openDec 04, 2007
By Kevin Colwell
I bought two of these for a tandem bike. There were comfortable enough. But after a couple months the gel pads on one of the seats split open at one of the seams. Within a couple more months both pads on both seats peeled open.
The gooey gel is exposed and now I can't ride the bike at all until I replace these worthless seats. Big waste of money.
11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Pads rupture and comfort gel dribbles onto floor!Jan 31, 2007
By Dan in Spokane
Attached this seat to a Home exercycle. We give it light to moderate use. Within 2 months one gel capsule sprung a tear, which widened and began to spill gel out on the floor. I thought this was just an unlucky anomaly, until at four months the other gel pad opened at the rear seam, widened to a 3 inch gap, and also began spilling the sticky gel onto the floor. We are not heavyweight people! The gel pad system on this Ultimate comfort seat is faulty.
5 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 Huge improvement over most bike seats.Oct 25, 2006
By Katie Mordarski
I'm very tiny, and this bike seat feels terrific to me. I find it to be very squishy and forgiving over the bumps--I noticed the most difference from my old standard-issue bike seat riding over train tracks. I do have a tendency to slide forward, and if you do, it's not as comfortable, but if you can sit back on the widest part of the seat, it's great.
4/5 stars because, actually, the little gel pads peeled off the seat. They still stay stuck most of the time, but I have gotten off my bike with a gel pad stuck to my pants...
39 of 53 found the following review helpful:
 comfort seatFeb 24, 2006
By L. Farster
the seat is not as comfortable as I thought it would be as it has no springs under it only rubber blocks. did arrive fast
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