I am not a Brooks fan. I found the one that I owned OK comfort wise when new, but I hated it after a year of "breaking in". It wasn't anything special to start with, got worse over time, and was too heavy to boot.

I find the obsession with Brooks saddles on BF more than a little weird since on organized rides like centuries that I have been on they are a tiny minority. Also I met a lot of tourists when riding the Trans America and pretty much all of them were using something else. Yet read on the BF touring forum and you would think all or at least most tourists used them.