Hi All,

I'm just purchased a touring bike from REI, Navara Safari and just started riding it empty and love it so far but it's a big difference between that and my road bike to say the least.

I was lucky in finding a mentor at REI who was a customer and is now my unofficial mentor. Wow, what a wealth of information as he's given me about my next ride the Pacific Coast Hwy (PCH). He's taken that trip from Seattle 2 LA, and been all over New Zeland and is planning a trip from Denver to Glacier Nalt. Park this summer.

Point is I've got a ton of information from him and I'm grateful as I plan to do the PCH this Sept and thanks to him I feel very confident about it.

Now the one thing I'm concerned about and would like more info on is saddles. I hear rave reviews about Brooks B-17 but looks hard as a rock to me, then I see these el cheapo ads for something that just supports your butt with nothing to put pressure on your testicles...soooo, I need some comments?

Thanks,
John Young
rkmtnhi@gmail.com