Originally Posted by
rms13
by the way, I had a Brooks last year. Road it for a couple of months and traded it for a different saddle. It was the most uncomfortable thing I've ever sat on. It turned my bike into a torture chamber. The Brooks devotes all told me I needed to break it in more. Give it a year or so and it will be the most comfortable saddle ever. Who is going to ride in pain for a year hoping to break in a saddle?
You can use leather conditioner to soften the leather. For me, a Brooks is comfortable out of the box. The big advantage of a leather over a plastic saddle is that with time, it will conform to your butt as it gets deformed under the pressure of being seated on it. That's the same reason why people wear leather shoes - it adapts to one's anatomy.