I bought a blue Brooks to match my first-ever bike build some years ago. Rode it for an hour, then took it off because it chafed. A month later, I tried again. Maybe a couple of rides. Still hated it. This went on for a couple of years, until I had three or four hundred kilometres on the saddle. Then, one day, I put it on and headed down the road . . . and suddenly thought, "Hey, NOW I get it." All those rides--maybe 10 or so--and I had inadvertently broken it in. I recently broke in another on my Appaloosa, only this time I had the sense to tolerate the relative discomfort for the required duration. I'm heavy, so a Brooks probably comes around a little more quickly for me than it might for a lighter person.
Patience. Use the saddle cream on yourself, not the saddle. Jay -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
