Unfortunately, I ended up putting it back on the bike. The springs didn’t seem to lessen any control over the unicycle, but the nose of the saddle made it extremely uncomfortable to ride on. When it was angled forward enough to take pressure off my perineum, it felt like I was sliding off the saddle and when it was angled back far enough to prevent that my weight still ended up being supported by the nose of the saddle.
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I found exactly the same thing on the very large saddle I tried. The pointed nose on a bike saddle just does not work well on a uni. I’m working on some workarounds.
My current plan is a layer of hard plastic on the rear on the handle saddle between the leather and the foam. I want to get something in there that puts as much of the weight as possible on my sit bones.
My experience with bikes has been that nothing is truly comfortable on a long ride, (even recumbent riders have to deal with “recumbent butt”), but so long as most of your weight is being supported by your sit bones and not your soft tissue it’s a manageable discomfort. The problem with unicycles is that it seems that there is no easy way to take the weight off your soft tissue.
I find that with a handle, the Fusion Zero/One does that for me. I’m riding almost totally on my sit bones.
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I really like the handle saddles, but I think the the way the foam in them is arranged gives really bad support to the sit bones. If you look at one you’ll notice there are actually cutouts in the foam where your sit bones should rest. I don’t notice any problems with them while riding muni since I am constantly switching between supporting my weight on the saddle and my weight on the pedals, but when riding on pavement or easy trails for a long distance it becomes pretty painful.
I imagine I just need a few more months of trial and error before I figure out what works for me. I don’t really want to go the big handlebar route though as off-road riding is where my focus is.
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It would be interesting to see a Brooks Cambium style unicycle saddle. They’re very popular in the biking world, and I find them to be pretty comfortable.
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It’s rhe light saddle from brooks. I also preefer rhe bike saddles from sqlap but there also not cheap. Cheaper than a brooks saddle yes That’s right but 160 euro only for a saddle? But there very good i think.
Well you could try the Brooks on a unicycle 
I have been riding regular bicycle saddles on my unicycles for quite some time, and I cannot imagine going back. So my favorite saddle is currently a split nose ISM saddle.
More pictures of the saddles here
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