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Old 05-19-11, 10:08 AM
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I've had my Brooks for about thirty years. About a year and a half ago when I purchased my first bike in 40 years, a Trek Madone, the shop refused to install my old Brooks. As soon as I got home, I made the swap myself.

One day last year, when riding down along the beach path with my lady, we stopped momentarily to check a map or something. A couple of kids with bikes sitting on the nearby stairs noticed the Brooks and was pretty impressed with it. Something about the sight of an old, scroungy, beat up seat on a fancy-dancy, slick looking carbon speed machine.

I love that old thing. About twice as heavy as "normal" saddles, but until I become a lean, mean, fighting machine, a few hundred extra grams won't make a whit difference.
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