Brooks Saddles...

Greg T
Greg T Posts: 3,266
edited April 2009 in Commuting chat
Should I?
Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

What would Thora Hurd do?
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    Greg T wrote:
    Should I?

    Yes
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    I'd like one myself if it was cheaper! Hence I bought a brown Charge saddle so I can look at it out of the corner of my eye and pretend it's a Brooks...
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    If your looking for the standard B17 i've seen them for £32
    Rule #5 // Harden The Feck Up.
    Rule #9 // If you are out riding in bad weather, it means you are a badass. Period.
    Rule #12 // The correct number of bikes to own is n+1.
    Rule #42 // A bike race shall never be preceded with a swim and/or followed by a run.
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    itboffin wrote:
    If your looking for the standard B17 i've seen them for £32
    No, shush, I'm happy with what I've got, I am I am I am...
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  • Christophe3967
    Christophe3967 Posts: 1,200
    Greg T wrote:
    Should I?

    Pipe? Slippers? Rapha tweed suit?

    I guess these urges overtake us all eventually. Before you know it you'll be having your prostate checked (tip - don't see a male doctor for this) and checking out the Just for Men section in Boots...
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  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    B17 on my old bike, B17 on my new one. I think it is great and comfy, commuting and long distance tour planned on it now too.
    "This area left purposefully blank"
    Sign hung on my head everyday till noon.

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  • gert_lush
    gert_lush Posts: 634
    Yes :)

    I have a B17 and although it seemed to take bloody ages to break in for me, about 1000miles(think I have strange shaped butt) its now amazing, can now knock off consecutive days 100milers without even noticing the saddle, but not everyone gets on with them, Plus I like it as its brown looks old school on my supergalaxy
    FCN 8 mainly
    FCN 4 sometimes
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Can't vote as there isn't one that fits, but I had a B17 last summer - sold it [on here actually...] as I just didn't get on with it. It may well have fitted me perfectly after some hundreds of miles but I wanted it to fit last summer, not this coming June, and anyway the narrow slotted razor-thin jobby that I replaced it with worked out of the box, and still does. On top of that, a big brown leather saddle on a lightweight road rocket does a look a bit pants, whichever leg you stand on.

    Brookes aren't the only game in town, despite what some would have you believe.
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    A Brooks saddle would go jolly nicely with your Rapha suit, Mr. Chumley-Warner.
    Yes.
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Always Tyred wrote:
    A Brooks saddle would go jolly nicely with your Rapha suit, Mr. Chumley-Warner.
    Yes.

    Poke it AT.

    I'm exploring Gentlemen's Cycling options and until Rapha tailor mess kit then I'm just not interested.

    Hmmmm

    Gentlemen's Cycling Club....

    An idea has sprouted.
    Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

    What would Thora Hurd do?
  • brushed
    brushed Posts: 63
    I had a B17 back in the eighties and tried to break it in.

    Covered it in loads of neatsfoot oil and got a soggy ar*e for my trouble.

    Gave up and bought a Bernard Hinault Turbo.

    You need to be patient but it sounds like its worth it in the end.

    Needs to be matched to something retro / traditional looking.
    FCN 4 summer
    FCN 6 Winter

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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I like to agree, and therefore agree with everything everyone's said above.

    Also, I'm moving to France to sit on fences in a more understanding culture...
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    Greg T wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    A Brooks saddle would go jolly nicely with your Rapha suit, Mr. Chumley-Warner.
    Yes.

    Poke it AT.

    I'm exploring Gentlemen's Cycling options and until Rapha tailor mess kit then I'm just not interested.

    Hmmmm

    Gentlemen's Cycling Club....

    An idea has sprouted.
    My bloke was once part of an explorer's club at uni which had a Gentlemen's Outing - basically involving a pub crawl. The girls were only allowed to join if they, er, strapped themselves down and suited-up. Sounds like fun to me :D
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  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I'm moving to France to sit on fences in a more understanding culture...


    What is this?

    There's nothing understanding about French Culture unless you consider blockading ports, striking, saying non a lot and getting shoed by the Huns every 50 years as "understanding"

    Spill the beans
    Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

    What would Thora Hurd do?
  • Blonde
    Blonde Posts: 3,188
    I rode a Brooks B17 for 10,000 miles and it never "broke in".
    So, I got one of these instead (well, four; one for each bike - including my Dolan track bike):
    http://www.mcmwin.com/ :D
  • beverick
    beverick Posts: 3,461
    gert_lush wrote:
    Yes :)

    I have a B17 and although it seemed to take bloody ages to break in for me, about 1000miles(think I have strange shaped butt) its now amazing

    I'm still breaking in my tan B17 christmas present. The only benefit of Easter Monday's 40 mile hilly tour around West Yorkshire was that I had an instant incentive to stand on the pedals at all times and not just on the hills!

    I think it's the saddle that breaks you in and not the other way around.

    Bob
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Greg T wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I'm moving to France to sit on fences in a more understanding culture...


    What is this?

    There's nothing understanding about French Culture unless you consider blockading ports, striking, saying non a lot and getting shoed by the Huns every 50 years as "understanding"

    Spill the beans

    *shrugs shoulders, assumes French accent*

    Euhhhhhhhh Bof...
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    lost_in_thought wrote:

    *shrugs shoulders, assumes French accent*

    Euhhhhhhhh Bof...

    Unless you have taken an apprentice position as a saucy French Maid (and I think you'll find subscriptions have closed for this academic year - I tried) there can be no justifiable reason for going Saucisson Side.

    Don't play coy with me....
    Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

    What would Thora Hurd do?
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Greg T wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:

    *shrugs shoulders, assumes French accent*

    Euhhhhhhhh Bof...

    Unless you have taken an apprentice position as a saucy French Maid (and I think you'll find subscriptions have closed for this academic year - I tried) there can be no justifiable reason for going Saucisson Side.

    Don't play coy with me....

    Yeah, they shut applications in February, which I thought was really early, I only managed to find a large enough feather duster in early March. I'm hoping I'll go through clearing and perhaps get a place as a saucy Swedish Milkmaid. Although with the markets as they are...
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • sarajoy
    sarajoy Posts: 1,675
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I'm hoping I'll go through clearing and perhaps get a place as a saucy Swedish Milkmaid. Although with the markets as they are...
    Good luck! http://www.thelocal.se/18840/20090414/
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  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    Have you tried Switzerland? I have heard there are a shortage of Heidis. GregT could be Peter but I am afraid his knees would look out of place in those shorts.
    Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.

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    Marin Rift Zone - 1998
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    I'd need to practice my yodelling and Greg would need a horn...

    *snickering*
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • Feltup
    Feltup Posts: 1,340
    :lol:
    Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.

    Felt F55 - 2007
    Specialized Singlecross - 2008
    Marin Rift Zone - 1998
    Peugeot Tourmalet - 1983 - taken more hits than Mohammed Ali
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I'd need to practice my yodelling and Greg would need a horn...

    *snickering*

    Gnurk Gnurk Snigger.

    Glad to see my own thread has degraded so rapidly. It make me proud...

    We need to work on your yodelling top notes LiTs I think you have the lungs for it but your technique needs sharpening.
    Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

    What would Thora Hurd do?
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Greg T wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    I'd need to practice my yodelling and Greg would need a horn...

    *snickering*

    Gnurk Gnurk Snigger.

    Glad to see my own thread has degraded so rapidly. It make me proud...

    We need to work on your yodelling top notes LiTs I think you have the lungs for it but your technique needs sharpening.

    Less about my yodelling, what are you going to do about your horn?

    *barely disguised giggling*
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    edited April 2009
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    what are you going to do about your horn?

    It's never let me down before but it is cold on this mountain and those Goats have a disconcerting habit of staring at you...
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  • Christophe3967
    Christophe3967 Posts: 1,200
    It's not the goats you have to worry about. Its that chap behind you with the leiderhosen on a bike with a Brooks saddle clutching a tub of chamois cream.

    Just trying to get back on thread.
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  • Jay dubbleU
    Jay dubbleU Posts: 3,159
    What you need is one of these to go with the deerstalker and norfolk jacket

    http://www.pashley.co.uk/products/guvnor.html :roll:
  • hisoka
    hisoka Posts: 541
    Degradation of threads = many strange looks in the office as I chuckle away to myself.

    Great stuff :D

    Now I can just imagine LiT singing "lonely goatherd" about Greg though.
    "This area left purposefully blank"
    Sign hung on my head everyday till noon.

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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    hisoka wrote:
    Degradation of threads = many strange looks in the office as I chuckle away to myself.

    Great stuff :D

    Now I can just imagine LiT singing "lonely goatherd" about Greg though.

    Oh - Goat HERD. I always thought it was a lowly goat t*rd. But then I never sussed why you'd want to go over the rainbow to weigh a pie.

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