Originally Posted by onetwentyeight
thurston - you know you can adjust the tension of the leather in the brooks by fiddling with that bolt at the tip of the saddle, right?
I'm no Brooks expert (never ridden one and never will) but Sheldon advises against using that bolt. He says that most of the time the user ends up effing up the saddle, and it should only be fiddled with when there's something badly wrong with the saddle and you have nothing to lose already.