Originally Posted by
GriddleCakes
:/ Meh:
Brooks B-17 saddle. The first month was painful, but after it broke in, it was as comfortable as my couch. Which meant that I would forget to get out of the saddle from time to time, which leads to sweaty ass, which ends in saddle sores. Now I know to remember to stand out of the saddle on long rides, but my old saddle was just uncomfortable enough to make me do it without thinking, yet was still comfortable enough to sit in for 30 minutes at a stretch, and was a quarter of the cost of the Brooks. Plus it was waterproof! Still, I have the Brooks, I've broken it in, and I'll keep riding it until some larcenous hipster walks off with it. Then I'll go back to the WTB saddle that came with the bike.
I've been switching between a B17 and Fizik Aliante on my commuter. The B17 is getting close to being broken in, but I can't get the damn back far enough relative to the BB. My SOMA has a 73-deg STA, and even with a Velo Orange seatpost, I could use a little more offset. I completely understand that 66-deg STA's were popular when the B17 was first introduced, but most off-the-peg frames today have 73 STA's, which make it difficult to get the B17 positioned so that you're not sitting on the rivets.