I gave up on leather (as opposed to leather covered plastic) saddles a decade and a half ago, but my experience with many different Brooks models and the stray Ideale and Fujita Belt was that if you chose the right shape of saddle and set it up properly, the saddle was already a metaphorical 90% of the way toward comfort. That applied even to the concrete-bus-stop-bench-like Fujita Belt saddle, shaped IIRC like a B17 narrow. Yes, some softening would have helped but it was the shape and position that made the most difference.
Patrick “original issue Flites, and nothing other than original issue Flites” Moore, who could never get the tilt just right on the otherwise impeccably comfortable Brooks Pro. On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM Sally Bidleman <[email protected]> wrote: > Is it just the stiffness or is the shape different from your old B17? I > don't find the B17S as comfortable as the standard B17... > > On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> The B17 aged saddle has some give right out of the box >> >> -- >> 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 [email protected]. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/20250518.182733.6149.0%40webmail05.dca.untd.com >> . >> > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CABey9MVRTE4zaP13BgrAAdudPDidBBVf00WhNKGJwwxUCzHWRA%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CABey9MVRTE4zaP13BgrAAdudPDidBBVf00WhNKGJwwxUCzHWRA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, letters, and other writing services ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *When thou didst not, savage, k**now thine own meaning,* *But wouldst gabble like a** thing most brutish,* *I endowed thy purposes w**ith words that made them known.* -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgv_QKS4Lgupj_i45Yctv1tXDaJZLwMYA1y%3DdqYUhFmq2A%40mail.gmail.com.
