Will the Fhoenix last as long as a conventional treed saddle?
A20. The saddle is, by its nature and construction, very different but the life expectancy is likely to be as long as that of a treed saddle, 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! We expect 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, for example. So if you take that the Fhoenix lasts a minimum of ten years, that is only just over 100 per year, or less if the Standard, and with proper care and normal use should last much longer.
