Groovemachine86
Active Member
- Location
- London/Devon
Anyone got any recommendations for a good non arse destroying saddle for touring?
Saddles for touring
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Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
Brooks B17.
vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
Brooks B17
All of my touring, Audax and road bikes have been fitted with them. They have all been comfortable from day one.
I set of an a LEJOG with a brand new B17 and had no problems whatsoever with it despite it not having had an opportunity to mould itself to my sitbones.
All of my touring, Audax and road bikes have been fitted with them. They have all been comfortable from day one.
I set of an a LEJOG with a brand new B17 and had no problems whatsoever with it despite it not having had an opportunity to mould itself to my sitbones.
Gerry Attrick
Lincolnshire Mountain Rescue Consultant
Bought a B17 for touring a few weeks ago. Comfy from the off. Go for it. You can get 'em for £35 at SJS.
Davidc
Guru
- Location
- Somerset UK
B17. Also for every other sort of riding.
simon_brooke
New Member
- Location
- Auchencairn
Get one which fits you. In the Brooks range, for me, that's the Team Professional (or the B17 narrow) rather than the standard B17. Do not believe the rubbish about 'breaking in' a Brooks saddle. It's either comfortable from day one or it isn't, and if you apply leather softeners to it all you'll do is end up with a wrecked saddle.
Brooks do get more comfortable with age because they do gradually mould themselves to your personal shape, but if they aren't comfortable to start with you probably have the wrong width for you..
The other thing to say is while I used to swear by Brooks Professionals and at one time had them on all my bikes, they're extraordinarily heavy - about 550 grams. When I worked out that the saddle was 6% of the total weight of my race bike I experimentally bought a Selle Italia SLR, which weighs a quarter as much. And although it looks like an instrument of torture it turns out to be (for me) equally comfortable, so much so that I've given away two of my Brooks and the one that remains is on a bike I don't use that much.
Don't get me wrong, Brooks are great saddles. But even the (scarily expensive) titanium railed ones are heavy, and do you really want to be lugging an extra 400 grams up every hill?
Brooks do get more comfortable with age because they do gradually mould themselves to your personal shape, but if they aren't comfortable to start with you probably have the wrong width for you..
The other thing to say is while I used to swear by Brooks Professionals and at one time had them on all my bikes, they're extraordinarily heavy - about 550 grams. When I worked out that the saddle was 6% of the total weight of my race bike I experimentally bought a Selle Italia SLR, which weighs a quarter as much. And although it looks like an instrument of torture it turns out to be (for me) equally comfortable, so much so that I've given away two of my Brooks and the one that remains is on a bike I don't use that much.
Don't get me wrong, Brooks are great saddles. But even the (scarily expensive) titanium railed ones are heavy, and do you really want to be lugging an extra 400 grams up every hill?
