Looking for a non leather saddle shapped like a brooks B67/B68
 

I've been riding a brooks B67 since may or so and its really been a serious contributing factor in getting back on the bike after many years off. I love biking so much now that I'm going to build up a dedicated all weather commuter. I don't want to use my b67 though, because the weather in portland is just too crappy, and work provides no indoor bike parking at all. So I want a non leather saddle that is as close in shape as I can get to the brooks b67/68 as possible. Suspension springs or not, I really don't care, I just want to duplicate shape as closely as possible. Been looking around in the bike shops and I can't find anything and the shop people kind of scratch their heads and don't know what to tell me. One shop suggested I check out the velo orange leather saddles as a less expensive alternative to the brooks, but this bike will be left out in the rain for 11 hours at a time. Even with a bag over the saddle, its going to get soaked.

Any suggestions?

A Brooks can take the crappy weather provided you just cover it when parked out in the rain, and use fenders, which you will need anyway with or without your Brooks saddle. I commute on one in Seattle, and a plastic bag works fine and dandy when I leave it out in the elements. I don't think synthetics can begin to approximate the comfort of leather.

Sorry, I am not answering your question-- it is just you have already found what works, why not jsut make it work for you?

Selle Royal should have something:

http://www.selleroyal.com/Saddle_Detail.aspx?c=9132HET

http://www.selleroyal.com/ResampleIm...441&height=314

http://www.selleroyal.com/home.aspx