Originally Posted by
MMACH 5
I installed the saddle and took the bike out for a spin.
When people say that a Brooks is hard, they aren't kidding! It's hard to imagine that this torturous piece of cruel leather & steel will transform itself into the "most comfortable saddle I've ever owned."
I can't even fathom riding it without padded shorts.
I hope that I will become one of the Brooks evangelists that frequent these forums, but for now it just feels like I've been sold a bill of goods.
This is all just my first impression so I'm not going yank the saddle and send it back.
I've only put a few miles on it and I realize that patience is required for proper break-in but it will have to feel considerably different than it does now.
Patience my son. Epiphaney awaits you. There, just ahead. Over the mount, through the misted vale...
Remember thou, the True Flagellants. Comfort and Bliss is only achieved by Diligence of the Spirit and the Denial of Buyer's Remorse. Surely, thy skin shall be as hardened stone by way of The Forming of the Hide, and thickened upon thee, by way of ridicule from the Unwashed. Pay no heed to the Syntheticists, and the Children of the Bike Shop.
Be thou blessed,
Knight of the Wicking Hide, 10th Order