Originally Posted by
JoeyBike
I think nowadays most who purchase Brooks saddles are doing so for style. Thankfully so, because it keeps Brooks in business for those of you who get actual comfort and benefit from their saddles. As I said, I admire how they have not only survived but thrived with a product that is largely outdated.
If you dug down into the numbers, I suspect that you would find far more people buying the latest plastic saddle because of "style". Brooks doesn't have a large enough share of the market for "style" to be much of a driving factor in sales.