http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: New saddle. en Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:18:08 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809&page=2#post-45525 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 21:33:43 +0000 Its_Me_Knees 45525@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I got a Brooks B68, which is for those of us with the, erm, more ample derriere. It was the pre-aged leather version, and has been comfortable right from the off. It replaced a Selle Royal saddle which apparently wasn't itself cheap (it was supplied with the bike) but which started to give me some serious aches if I did more than 12-15 miles in a single run. However, the Brooks is on a hybrid - I concede it would look a little out of place on my MTB. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809&page=2#post-45457 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 22:00:00 +0000 gembo 45457@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>They say the B-17 is comfy. I do not know what they say about the B-15 Swallow. Nice to have a saddle dearer than the frame, that is where Santa comes in handy </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809&page=2#post-45450 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:34:38 +0000 Instography 45450@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like my Brooks B17 a lot. Never had any pain from it. I was thinking I'd cap my chocolatey Pompino with one of <a href="http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=58044">these</a>, Santa permitting. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809&page=2#post-45425 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:36:59 +0000 DaveC 45425@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I keep meaning to get another B17 for my Cotic but my money keeps being used on other things, like food bills, childrens shoes etc... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-45423 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:12:12 +0000 kaputnik 45423@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Picked up a Team Pro Classic in Honey from the post office this morning, the third addition to my Brooks family after the B17 and B17 narrow.</p> <p>Quite similar to the B17 narrow, but without the holes on the top, seems thicker and harder leather overall but with less in the sides and generally a bit narrow and stiffer.</p> <p>Undecided yet if the new one will go on the singlespeed bike or the audax bike, the B17 narrow on the latter is well broken in and outstandlingly comfortable. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30388 Mon, 02 May 2011 10:27:52 +0000 kaputnik 30388@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Liz - first time I had heard it too!<br /> @Ruggtomcat - How was your post-beltane "cookin' larger"? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30384 Mon, 02 May 2011 00:57:44 +0000 ruggtomcat 30384@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>and 'wife beater' is stella artois, another good name is 'cookin larger' for any cheap tap lager </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30376 Sun, 01 May 2011 19:37:50 +0000 Claggy Cog 30376@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah...I am so naive sometimes! Thank you, very enlightening. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30373 Sun, 01 May 2011 19:31:18 +0000 kaputnik 30373@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Liz - wife beater = Stella. King Creole = Leithney rhyming slang for something ending in "-hole", I presumed! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30372 Sun, 01 May 2011 19:26:40 +0000 Claggy Cog 30372@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I do, BTW, own a Brooks ladies saddle, and it is just great. The first outing I did on it was a real test and I was rather saddle sore, but it was a very hot day, and I did do over 80 miles. However, it is now broken in and I would not trade it in for anything else. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30369 Sun, 01 May 2011 19:17:35 +0000 Claggy Cog 30369@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Kaputnik <em>Local punter, the worse for sun and wife beater</em>[quote] is wife beater a kind of drink? Also I don't get the King Creole bit...</p> <p>Kid Creole has the Coconuts...and Elvis sang King Creole, is it slang for pelvis therefore? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30354 Sun, 01 May 2011 15:33:00 +0000 kaputnik 30354@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was stopped at some lights between Seafield and Leith and standing forward off the saddle. Local punter, the worse for sun and wife beater, crosses road behind me, slaps the saddle and jovially shouts "all right my man? Is that not sore on your King Creole?" Made me laugh. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30295 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 23:24:15 +0000 DaveC 30295@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>New saddle was great. Only one minor patch of discomfort, 35 miles in on a 42 mile rde round Loch Rannoch today. Its wider so more supportive than my old saddle.</p> <p>One of the guys on the ride was on a borrowed folding bike, without low gears so when we hit the hill up to Schiehallion we swapped about me lending him mine and me on the owner of the folder's Dawes Audax with new Schimano 105 gears. Nice bike but the saddle was a razor! Back on my new saddle was great. I'm a convert! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30220 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:07:19 +0000 kaputnik 30220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>how long is your ruler?</em></p> <p>it was micro-calipers last night, to measure the height of my stack.</p> <p>Ooh er! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30217 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:01:23 +0000 ruggtomcat 30217@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>I can measure arses</em></p> <p>how long is your ruler? :D </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30216 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:00:12 +0000 DaveC 30216@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>See you in 10 mins..... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30215 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 11:55:17 +0000 thebikechain 30215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I can measure arses.</p> <p>Fully trained in the art of the SQ Lab.</p> <p>What i don't know about perineal pressure mapping is not worth mentioning. </p> <p>My b17 is in the building for trial if required. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30174 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:35:58 +0000 DaveC 30174@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I saw a Brooks on a New Dahon lastnight and spoke to the owner (and had a wee feel of the leather). Also got to have a wee sit on one ths morning as a friend has an Orange Brompton with one on. May have to get one. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30092 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:39:37 +0000 Smudge 30092@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Tomorrow...!? It's virtually a Friday ;-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30089 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:22:30 +0000 DaveC 30089@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good idea. Friday is out as its a Holiday, but some point in the future would be useful. The lady who comes out of PY to serve the coffees might be a little perplexed though, exp as on the second round we've all changed places. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30088 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:16:03 +0000 Smudge 30088@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd have thought a coffe morning and a sit on various Brookses (tm kaputnik) might be the most useful maybe? Subject to Brooks owners being available and content to let others perch on their bikes of course! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30085 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:09:12 +0000 wingpig 30085@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is it worth attempting to measure the distance between the ischial tuberosities in order to compare it to the distance between saddle cheek-pads prior to examining these things in shops seeing as they're generally hung on a rack where they're difficult to be test-sat-upon? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30084 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:05:47 +0000 DaveC 30084@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm I might have to have a wonder to my LBS. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30080 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:56:52 +0000 kaputnik 30080@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The regular B17 is slightly wider. I think the speed / narrows / specials are stiffer as they are narrower. I defeinitely noticed that the B17 narrow took a while to get used to but the regular B17 was great from the off. It's also cheaper than its variations.</p> <p>Along the lines of what smudge and chdot were saying, with a few exceptions (and they're not really "bikes" anyway :D), we're mostly all still riding round on rubber-treaded bikes with spoked wheels and a frame composed of 2 triangles. If it works - it works. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30079 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:53:44 +0000 chdot 30079@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"good one to start with"</p> <p>Does it lead to an expensive habit?</p> <p>(Just asking...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30078 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:49:17 +0000 DaveC 30078@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmm, I'm Brooks curious now. I may have to have a look online at the saddles. The B17 Speed? has been mentioned as a good one to start with?</p> <p>(I should point out that this was not started as a bash brooks saddles/owners thread) but as a laugh about a (granite) rock hard saddle.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30069 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:04:04 +0000 chdot 30069@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"It has long been a bubear of mine that advertising has successfully convinced the majority of people that new=good and old(fashioned)=bad."</p> <p>Indeed</p> <p>In the case of things <em>like</em> Brooks there are elements of retro/fashion/cool. </p> <p> In the case of Brooks saddles, for many people they 'work', which some will see as a 'bonus' - function on top of fashion!</p> <p>The (excellent) function of Reynolds tubing (particularly 531) was sidelined by the 'fashion' for CroMo (various spellings are available) - not because it was better but because far eastern factories were (predominantly) welding not brazing. </p> <p>Sturmey Archer three speed hubs were deeply unfashionable in the face of multi-geared mountain bikes. </p> <p>The manufacturing of them left England after some dubious ownership/financial dealings. Without that the name/product may have died. </p> <p>Now they're available in fashionable(?) coloured options! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30068 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:46:56 +0000 Smudge 30068@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"downright old-fashioned"</p> <p>It has long been a bubear of mine that advertising has successfully convinced the majority of people that new=good and old(fashioned)=bad.</p> <p>The recent(ish) research on Mallory's clothing proved that it stood alongside modern gear, with some advantage and some disadvantages ( <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5076634.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/5076634.stm</a> ) Brooks are "old fashioned" but loved by many despite that, many new things are amazing progress, witness LED lights to name but one, however our predeccesors were not fools and we can often learn from them by stepping back from what is fashionable and attempting to look at old kit with open eyes and a questioning mind. My motorcycle gear has some kit which is very modern and some which was designed in the thirties, take the best and worry not (too much) about what is "in" imho :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30060 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:28:09 +0000 ruggtomcat 30060@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>outrageous! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=2809#post-30056 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:49:45 +0000 druidh 30056@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The Brooks is a strange phenomenon. despite selling them in the shop and hearing all about how wonderful they are, I just couldn't bring myself to buy one. They are just so hard, unwielding, heavy and downright old-fashioned.</p> <p>Eventually, I decided that I really <em>had</em> to try it out, so opted for a black B17. My first ride was for three hours or so around East Lothian and I got off the bike with nary a rear-end twitch. It just seemed comfy from the get-go. </p> <p>However, I am now considering getting rid of it to replace it with another saddle. Brooks have just launched the B17s in Mandarin, Apple Green and......Electric Blue! </p>