Originally Posted by
Oil_LOL
Ok, everyone on this forum loooves Brooks saddles. The main thing they love is the comfort, which is the most important thing you should have in a saddle. But they do have some disadvantages, mainly their overall steal-ability, and the harm the elements can do to them. I have an idea. The company takes your used Brooks saddle, and makes a replica using synthetic materials. The seats are customized to exactly how your butt is shaped, and they are weatherproof, and, because of the all black, synthetic construction, they look like a normal saddle to your average thief. Just thought of this while looking at saddles online. Any criticisms or comments?
I think the comfort of a saddle is based upon an individuals sit bones of their bum. A saddle with the correct width to support sit bones would result in a comfortable saddle. Take for instance, Specialized BG saddles. Go into a Specialized BG dealer and they could fit your ass to the correct size BG saddle. So the big S has the custom fitted saddle market covered, albeit with pre-set saddle sizes to fit most of the cycling population. Now if you're talking about full custom, one-off built saddles then I think you've got a very small market and you'd have to charge quite a premium for the saddles to come out ahead. I just don't think that market is there.
Why just a Brooks as a model? Why not any other saddle? Again you're limiting the prospective market to only folks that run a Brooks saddle. I cringe when I see a Brooks on a modern bicycle. It's akin to putting on wooden wagon wheels on a modern automobile. It's out of it's era. Yeah, I see how some like the look and the fact that it "forms" to their ass after several hundred miles but c'mon. The thing looks like it came of a late 19th century safety bike in a museum.