On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, but it needs a few thousand miles. And a Carradice. > > I've had mine for 3 or 4 years and it's starting to look used. On Monday I > had a cup of tea at a cyclists' cafe and one of the Brooks saddles looked as > though it had been chewed by bears it was so gnarly. Probably very > comfortable though for the old boy who's been sitting in it since 1872.
I've heard it takes a while to break these suckers in. I've also heard it's worth the effort and the wait. I'd love one of their narrow racing saddles: http://tinyurl.com/c4q6of http://www.brooksengland.com/shop/shopProductDetail.aspx?id=uid-20070521.193431.187.5000-16-00145E457A63-----------------202 cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
