Tough to say... the point of the Brooks is to match up with your ischial tuberosities... you want the leather to develop that little "sag" where your sit bones go. I guess there's nothing to say that, over time, it could reform itself to your anatomy as opposed to its previous owner's. I'd agree that a "lower mileage" saddle would be the way to go.

I have a B-17N... I don't have a lot of -um- problems with it but then I have it on my OCR C2 which has a more relaxed geometry. Not super upright but more than, say, the race oriented TCR (or whatever they're called now). I do get into the drops but not for a majority of the time. It seems to work fine.

By it new from Wallingford; they have a pretty liberal return policy.