The Romin EVO Pro Mirror takes Specialized's long-nosed race saddle and swaps the traditional foam top for a 3D-printed lattice that reduces sit bone pressure up to 26% . It's the Pro-level version of the S-Works Romin EVO with Mirror, which means you get the same Mirror pad architecture and Body Geometry shape as the flagship, but with a nylon-injected reclaimed carbon fiber shell and hollow titanium rails instead of full carbon. That's where the weight and price differences between Pro and S-Works come from.

The Romin shape is a longer-nosed, narrower-winged saddle than the more popular snub-nose Power, and it's designed to deliver exceptional comfort and ensure blood flow to soft tissue when riding in a low, aero position . If you tend to shift fore and aft on the saddle instead of parking in one spot, the added length gives you room to move. If you sit in one place for hours in an aggressive position, this shape suits that too, which is why the Romin has stayed in the pro peloton lineup for so long.

The Mirror pad is the part everyone talks about. Specialized's first concave FACT carbon fiber shell enabled the thickest Mirror pad ever, with 22,200 struts and 10,700 nodes , and that same pad carries over to the Pro version. The 3D-printed polymer lattice replaces foam entirely, and the density is tuned across different zones so the sit bone area supports without collapsing while the center channel and nose stay softer. It's not gel and it's not memory foam. It feels firmer than either but distributes load in a way traditional padding can't.... Read More