It also depends upon how upright you are on the bike
That extreme angle works for me because my riding posture is sabre toothed tiger like/80's racer crouched forward.
The Lidl Crivit Air Cushioned Saddle beats them all . It has an inflation button , soft 3 pumps , medium 8 pumps and hard 15 pumps . An air valve deflates it . Used in conjunction with an inexpensive Promax sprung suspension seatpost it gives a nice ride
I might buy a suspension seatpost, but choices are limited because for my bike any seatpost has to be long: 600mm or slightly less, with 33.9mm diameter. I could install a Tern telescopic seatpost and shove a Suntour NCX into the narrow end, but that is costlier, adds yets more weight, and the folded dimensions would be taller. I occasionally see Cane Creek Thudbusters made for Dahons like mine on ebay, sold fitted to old Dahons. It's worth paying the price for an old Dahon just to get the Thudbuster for Dahon, because they don't make them anymore. If the seller provides delivery (usually not
), and if they also didn't increase folded bike height.
This tilt forward at the lights suspension seatpost looks interesting, but it doesn't look like I'd be able to get my saddle to my usual extreme angle. I don't need a tilter because of the extreme seat angle.
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The non-tilt forward suspension version is 50mm longer = 600mm, so I might try one of these cheapos. I've been meaning to get around to replacing my current inexpensive non-Dahon seatpost from BankruptBikeParts for awhile, because it isn't quite long enough to enable my folding bike to stand without falling over when folded, and not long enough in general. The Helios balanced great on three points folded with the original, keeping the original 53T chainwheel off the ground.
Edit: Ordered this cheap suspension non-tilting version:
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...because it might have smoothed out this deep and sneaky nasty pothole, which loosened two rear wheel spokes last week:
(At 2m 44s, cued)