Will the Vogue or Fhoenix last as long as a conventional treed saddle?
The saddle is by its nature and construction, very different, and the life expectancy is unlikely to be as long as that of a treed saddle, which can be twenty years or more with proper care. The saddle has been manufactured using the finest quality materials, but these are softer than those used in treed saddles, in order to give the saddle flexibility, and the grip needed when no tree is present. The original Flexion prototype is still going strong after nine years of use, and the quality of materials used and standard of manufacture was very poor by comparison! But we like to look at it that in most sports, you would pay at least a couple of hundred pounds a year for equipment, a decent pair of running shoes will cost £150, so if you take that the Fhoenix lasts, with proper care and normal use, ten years, that is only £100 per year.
