Question for cyclists

[lupo pazzesco]

I've started riding my bike more often for exercise purposes, instead of the occasional quick ride up to the grocery store and back. I rather like it, it's a good workout, and yet relaxing at the same time. However, longer times on the bike have made me realize that the seat isn't all that friendly to my...<ahem>...seat

I need a larger saddle. And sadly, most are out of my price range for the same brand of bike that I have. The least expensive I've found that is easily accessible to me is a Scwhinn saddle. I have a Diamondback Serenity. So, my question is, can the Schwinn be used on a Diamondback? I don't want to buy it, take it out of the packaging and then realize it's incompatible, and be unable to return it.

I want to know if I can use different brands of bike products on different brands of bicycles, if that makes sense. I'm just not sure how to go about finding out this information, and the packaging doesn't have any info on what it is or isn't compatible with, and my google-fu seems to have failed me when I attempted to research it on the web.

So...

Thanks in advance!

[BlaqueKatt]

I've started riding my bike more often for exercise purposes, instead of the occasional quick ride up to the grocery store and back.

first off-yay!

I need a larger saddle.

find your local bike shop and talk to them-you may not need a larger saddle, but a better designed one or just some padding-both myself and my sister have one of these(and my sister is a larger girl herself-just for reference) and they will fit any bike.

Or there's this-also universal

or even this

so check your local bike shop, or amazon search -bicycle seats

[Jester]

Blaque Katt is dead on. Check with your local bike shop. Either bring your bike in and say, "Is this saddle compatible with this bike?" or, if you are planning on ordering things online and want to save the trip, call the bike shop with the relevant information for both bike and seat. I have found, however, that in most of my dealings with bike shops, I get better results by being there than by simply calling. Perhaps it is the thought that they may get an actual sale, perhaps it is something else, I don't know....but bike shop employees should be able to answer this question without any problem.