I see SJSC have started selling them.Audax67 wrote: ↑27 Sep 2021, 12:35pm
And I have to ask if you've tried a Selle Anatomica, which is the comfiest saddle I've ever had. They're supple leather, and the two halves flex quasi-independently. You need to lace the sides or they spread and rub, but once that's done they're wonderful. S.A. do special offers at Christmas, too, or at least they used to.
Softening a Brooks Leather Saddle
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There is your way. There is my way. But there is no "the way".
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Twenty stone... lightweight?rjb wrote: ↑27 Sep 2021, 1:13pmIts a sprung model. Possibly a B66 flyer but the single rail version and its the mens version that she has. (Shes only 133Kg) so a lightweight.iandusud wrote: ↑27 Sep 2021, 12:54pmWhich model?rjb wrote: ↑27 Sep 2021, 12:24pm Mrs Rjb is a real figit on the tandem. She would regularly go through a saddle every year. She dismissed leather saddles as being too hard, but when I fitted a well used Brooks it turned out to be the most comfortable saddle she has ever sat upon. It's been on for 3 years now and has had the sides laced up.
Just checked it's a champion flyer.
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Hope Swmbo doesn't read this I meant 133 lbs.
At the last count:- Peugeot 531 pro, Dawes Discovery Tandem, Dawes Kingpin X3, Raleigh 20 stowaway X2, 1965 Moulton deluxe, Falcon K2 MTB dropped bar tourer, Rudge Bi frame folder, Longstaff trike conversion on a Giant XTC 840
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the line taken by the pilot often makes a stoker's saddle seem far, far harder!
you just can't ease off a saddle when you want to as a stoker. much heavier going in that department!
upthread.....is that 'lightweight' correct??
you just can't ease off a saddle when you want to as a stoker. much heavier going in that department!
upthread.....is that 'lightweight' correct??
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over indulge the proofide both sides for while. Sometimes the difference in leather can mean it takes longer to break in.
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Like me. I'm 9stone 8lbs in proper English
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