My Touring Bike is in the basement, my Brooks saddle , now removed and kept inside the house.

having a waxy Proofide absorbed leather the mildew was just on the surface of it.






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I think you have ruined the leather by putting too much stuff on it. IMO mold is usually a sign you have clogged the pores of the leather. It cannot dry properly.
At this point maybe try soaking in water and then reforming the saddle as it drys.
But I still say it's ruined.

Wow, this thread has a wealth of information. I've learned a lot. I have a moldy saddle, too. I may or may not treat it, as it is nearing its end of life.

By the way, we Americans are not spelling mold/mould wrong. We spell it without the 'u' for whatever reason.

No kidding, I had no idea bees were animals. :p

Amusingly this has been a tip-off in many forums I've visited as to whether the author of a thread is from Great Britain or Europe as opposed to here in the United States. I don't know why I've come across so many threads talking about mold.

Though I do prefer the international spelling of the metric unit of length as "metre" instead of "meter".

Wikipedia divides the spelling geographically: mold (US / CA) or mould (UK / NZ / AU / ZA / IN / CA). We canucks can have it both ways.

It seems a shame to throw away 13 years of public school. ;)

Wow, that sounds gross. I think it's time to try a hand at making your own saddle top. IME mold is pretty much impossible to get rid of once it starts.

OTOH, maybe you could introduce some penicillin spores and induce a colony of that. That way your moldy saddle will prevent saddle sores, as long as you don't mind that it is white and fuzzy... ;)

TSP works for mold? I've used it to pull stains out of wood and concrete but never hide products.

Tell that to Bob (Husker Du)

Funny, I spell mold without the u and colour with it. Bet that confuses the hell out of ppl.

Replacing/making the saddle top is no easy task. Hope OP can save that leather.

put the saddle in a sealed bag and put it in a freezer. Works by killing the actively growing mould.
Mould Outbreak ? An Immediate Response - Canada.ca
Then you need to improve the airflow and decrease the relative humidity to limit reoccurence.

I prescribe neuesaddleoxin. TRUST ME IM A DOCTOR ON THE INTERNET.

I find sunshine does the trick.

I'm sure there are many other things you could do; the trick is to kill the mold without damaging the saddle. Baking it in a 175F oven will probably kill both the mold and the saddle (similarly, dousing it with gasoline and lighting a match to it would definitely kill the mold). Anything that changes the chemistry of the leather is basically damage. I don't know about how effective vinegar would be, but (being acidic) probably won't change the ph of the leather unless you do something extreme.

But sunshine works for me.

For some reason the u still lives on in American spelling of mouldering.

I'm glad I live in a dry climate. Mold grosses me out.

It certainly is gross. We are renovating our house in upstate New York, and thank goodness we're taking out the sheetrock and some of the beams. The smells were nauseating. We are also abating the water flow around the house, as it's on a steep, rocky hill.

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