Originally Posted by
JoeB14
Can you elaborate on this trick? I'm on my third B17 and it hasn't broken in a bit, compared to the first two. What did you do-just leave a damp washcloth on it overnight?
No, Rowan took two washclothes, wetted them, turned the bicycle upside down, shoved the scrunched up wet washcloths between the rails and the leather, and positioned them approximately where the sitbones would be. Then he left them for 2 hours. Then he removed the washcloths and we went for a ride.
(advice thanks to Spookeay Bird who posted this method almost in passing a while ago)