Originally Posted by froze

I don't know anything about long term care of leather saddles other then what Brooks instructions say. My Swift is 5 years old and my B17 is 5 months old and neither show signs of drying. I still go by what Brooks says, their the experts, they've been making saddles for over 100 years so I can only assume they know how to treat their saddles the best.

I keep my saddles covered in the rain even though I use Proofide and the leather may be somewhat tolerant of rain; I've have a little over $600 total invested in these two saddles (both have ti rails) so I'm going to keep them covered in rain and use Brooks method to treat them. If I get 20 years plus life out of them I'll be thrilled!!