Vince said it all; but I too tried about 13 different saddles over a 15 year period in seach if a comfortable saddle after my comfortable Avocet saddle got wiped out in an accident...oddly the first saddle I tried was a newer version (but looked different) of my old Avocet and it was not comfortable. I rode these saddles for at least a year to give them a chance to break in but they wouldn't. After all those saddles I finally tried the Brooks Swift, and what do you know, it is comfortable and it only took about 300 miles to break in and about 500 total to get really comfortable without using any treatments. I'm now going on 3 years with this saddle and I will never buy another brand. Heck the money I spent on those other 13 some odd saddles I could of bought another bike