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08-20-09 | 09:13 PM

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billydonn

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Joined: Jul 2008

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From: Omaha, NE

Bikes: 1990 Schwinn Crosscut, 5 Lemonds

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoste

While this is absolutely true (as well as being something that my mother drummed into me from infancy through grad school), I am firmly of the belief that a saddle shouldn't cause pain and discomfort for 500 or 1000 miles before it becomes bearable. Put me in the "Life is too short to tolerate a painful saddle" camp. This hobby is supposed to be fun, and I don't find crotch pain and numbness to be fun.

Again appears the great exaggeration. People seem to somehow want to keep exaggerating this pain thing, as if unbearable suffering for 100s of miles was required to break in a Brooks. I do not believe many people are reporting that. My experience was that the saddle was just okay (but showing promise) for a long time and slowly came around to become very good indeed. The process did not involve endless agony, I assure you.

And a putting a spritz or two of Neatsfoot oil (or whatever) on the bottom of a saddle isn't all that hard to do. I kind of enjoyed it. It's processes like this that make the hobby fun for me!

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