Originally Posted by
BengeBoy
There are endless threads on this topic on BikeForums.
Read the Brooks instructions on their website. It's pretty clear what they want you to do.
I don't have a brooks but I keep seeing these threads asking for alternatives and cannot understand what the problem is. Surely the cost of proofide is insignificant compared to the saddle and so little is used. I never read of people having problems caused by proofide. The only reason would seem to be getting something that softens the leather more but that obviously defeats the point of a brooks in the first place and most accounts say that it will make the saddle less comfortable in the long run and dramatically shorten its life.
Why don't people just follow what brooks recommends? I am sure they have much more experience of what works than anybody else.