Had to lace my champion flyer, and hope that will get a few more miles out of it. One tip, do not use the stamping on the sides to line up the holes, as they are not even themselves.

I used a leather punch from my tack tools. It looks much better than a drilled hole. The leather I used was from a woven leather belt, it matches the saddle very well.

The leather on my flyer is substantially thinner than on the older leather saddles on my older bikes. It started to sag almost at once, with more stretch on one side than the other, as that side is slightly thinner than the other. When it hit the end of the adjustment after about two thousand miles(tightened only when it was about to hit the rails) I did the soak and slow heat thing. Brought it back to almost the original length. I then gave it a treatment of very dilute Lanolin to rehydrate it a bit. That was about a thousand miles ago, and it has developed a small crack on the side(the slightly thinner side)right on the rear rail.
A part of me just wants to keep the lemon brooks I bought new going as long as I can make it. Even with my experience restoring saddles and the like, there is not much else to do with it though.