I used soap and water and clean skin and shorts . maybe bring some alcohol wipes to clean up before you ride home.


(toured all day for Months, Brooks Pro ( 'pre softened' it said, But it wasn't) and lined but not padded bike shorts 3 pair)


puss filled saddle sores and inflammation, are native skin bacterial infections, Hygene is the Key..

Commuting a Wally World saddle is probably theft resistant, where Brooks re sell, hot, for real money..

Yeah, so here is the TMI section of this discussion. Everyone other [MENTION=345109]corrado33[/MENTION] can stop reading now.

See what happens when you wipe your butt extra clean. Use baby wipes or something. Keep changing the wipe until it comes up clean. Do this while squatting low over the floor, not with your butt over the toilet. This is an uncomfortable topic, but it needs to be said that some people aren't as clean as they think they are.

This might help, and I don't mean to imply that this is your problem, but it might be, and it would be useful to know. I had a different but similar problem years ago, which is similarly embarrassing.

I tend to perspire down there so I always use gold bond powder riding or not.......but that ain't greasing my rear end....

I use a gel cover too. Works fine. No one needs to know.

Just in time, there's a product to save all that embarrassing baby wipe stuff:

https://www.bidetsplus.com/toto-washlets/

Huh?

Brooks saddles seem to be one of those things where a few who dislike them really dislike them.

They relieve pressure under the sit bones by having the perineum take more load than it is designed for. For riders who have been around the block a time or two, it's no big deal since we tend to put very little pressure on the saddle anyway (more power means more of the load goes into the pedals and correspondingly less into the saddle). However, sometimes one just wants to spin away at low power. With a Brooks, that can be a recipe for vascular and/or nerve damage to an area that many of us would like to keep fully functional.

That said, if your miles are low, you may well be able to ride anything without worry. My wife uses leather saddles for her town bikes, but neither of us would ever dream of going back to them for the longer rides we do.

They only put pressure on the perineum if your bike and saddle fit isn't adjust properly. Sorry, but with my Brooks I can ride a 70 mile day, get up, do it again the next day, then the next, and the next and the next. Now, if your fit is wrong, yes, you will have pain. I don't have pressure on my perineum, I did while trying different combinations of stems, seat setback, and seat hight and angle, but once it was dialed in, no pain. None, nada, zilch, all day long.

That is because you and your Corsican Twin brother were separated at birth and you don't know he exists. Poor sod lost his wife after you became infatuated with the leather saddles for obvious reasons. Lost his job not long after that. Now he lives under a freeway overpass and shambles around town with a curious hobbling gait. I know all this because I am him. Your long lost twin brother. But don't try to find me. You destroyed my life, you and your sick leather fetish. Grrrr

Not true, its an individual thing. I get perineum pressure sitting on a concrete bench if I lean forward at all (the recommended Cervelo test). With my physiology, I need a cut-out saddle. It's not a question of fit.

Everyone is different. I was replying to someone who was trying to say that a Brooks saddle can never be comfortable for anyone for a long day, completely going against the thousands of people who have used them for that very purpose very successfully.

You may be one they don't work for, however I have the same issue with many seats, motorcycle seats as well, but with adjustment I can make a Brooks work very well. It took a while though, believe me, now it disappears under me.

And by the way, I get perineum pressure on a concrete bench leaning forward all the way too, but not on my seat when it is adjusted properly for me. So, for me, the Cervelo test was irrelevant.

Many people love the Selle Anatomica with a cutout for the same issue you have. They are a great seat and are comfortable out of the box. There are many comfortable seats for all types of body types. To say that a Brooks is horrible and cannot be used for long distance though is absurd. The important thing is to find what works for you. That's all that matters.

I won't even comment to the other individual who posted utter rubbish.

Oddly enough, Brooks are probably the #1 choice for people doing really long-range touring, like all the way through South America and such...

I fixed mine 80% by showering before biking (weird, I know) and changing immediately after long rides.
The other 20% I fixed by lowering my saddle; it was too high and when I lowered it for other reasons the last of the saddle sores went away.

Duck.............. we're each gonna need cover.

There are far, far too many happy Brooks riders to discount the saddle's possibility of being "the one for you". And, they work for so many riders that they can't be ignored in a perch search. But, alas opinions are opinions and asses are asses. Everyone has one.

Had a Brooks worked for me, it would have saved me a bunch in the continued search for "MY" saddle.