Originally Posted by
MMACH 5
I haven't done anything with it yet. The impression I got from reading the forums was that I should try to break it in without oiling it first. I will be putting 50 miles on it tomorrow and then again on Friday.
And yes, it feels something like "The Real MAN ® saddle" from
www.sheldonbrown.com.
...
That may be the looong road to
conditioning.
You can purchase a pre-conditioned B-17 from Brooks for about $20-$40 extra. A conditioned Brooks is said to be the equivalent of one-year of pre-aging; and a Brooks pre-aged saddle has nothing to do with applying weight to the saddle for a year.
