Having chimed in with the rest of the Brooks zealots, I must confess that I can see that someone might want to ride some other kind of saddle. I bought a Brooks last year because I'd needed a new saddle, and I'd never tried a Brooks. After about 400 miles it was comfortable. It has remained as comfortable as the most comfortable of all the other saddles I've used. That's "as comfortable". At the end of the day, it is a saddle, and not a Lazy Boy.

In the mix of saddles I've used there have been comfortable saddles and uncomfortable saddles. It wasn't always easy to predict which saddle would fall into the comfortable category before I bought it. It seems to me that the beauty of the Brooks is reliability. Most saddles seem to come and go in the market. The Brooks line is stable. If you find that a Brooks B17 works for you, you can rely on the fact that the Brooks line will be around, unchanged, ten years from now when you need another saddle for another bike.

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