Road saddle required

[Parrot of Doom]

One of the rails on my Selle Italia saddle cracked straight through today, right in the middle of a ride. I solved it by sliding the saddle forward so the seatpost clamp was holding both ends of the crack.

So I need a new saddle, and preferably this time, something with steel rails, and not "crappy lightweight metal that breaks if you shout at it in a loud voice" rails.

Any recommendations? I don't want to spend a fortune, not on this bike. I was looking perhaps at this combo:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Kits.aspx?Model...

Edited by Parrot of Doom on Wednesday 8th June 15:26

[Parrot of Doom]

What about the Brookes saddles? They look quite nice, and I have a big arse.

[Parrot of Doom]

I tend to ride along at about 13-14mph, 20-35 miles usually, six days a week.

I think I'll give the spoon saddle a go for now, seeing as I've just pulled my front hub apart and noted that the bearings on one side are a nice bronze colour, and have mashed the hub up properly. Think I'll slap my 20-year-old 105/Mavic wheel on until I decide what to replace it with.

Modern components are absolutely crap at the cheap end of things - I still have some gear that's positively ancient and that was pretty cheap, and still going strong. The 105/Mavic wheelset on my old Mercian is a case in point, tens of thousands of miles and not a single problem.

[Parrot of Doom]

I bought a tan-coloured Charge Spoon, and I've also ordered one of these:

http://www.winstanleysbikes.co.uk/product/23824/Ho...

I tried to reinstall new bearings in my knackered wheel, it sounded like a set of keys in a biscuit tin and rotated as smoothly as a chicken's neck, so I think I'll bin that wheel

[Parrot of Doom]

Thanks for the recommendations, my new front wheel finally arrived yesterday so today (MTB'ing yesterday) I went out on the roadie, with the Charge Spoon. It's miles better than my old saddle, 40 miles and no soreness at all.