Waxing a saddle ... ?
#7
I personally hate having a slippery saddle even on my motorcycles sliding around when you don't want to really makes for bad control.
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Brooks' venerable "Proofide" saddle treatment has a significant amount of beeswax content. And "SnoSeal" leather treatment is essentially beeswax in a volatile carrier. Petroleum based products tend to soften leather significantly, but the saddle in the OP's picture appears to have a plastic base which wouldn't necessarily suffer from increased softness.
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Ah, the waxen saddle... Reminds me of the old Aphex Twin classic...
#14
I've never used anything on a vinyl saddle other than a microfiber cloth dampened with some very dilute Dawn dish soap, followed by a rinse with clear water. I wax my frames a couple of times a year but would never apply it to a saddle.
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OP, the saddle isn't leather. Wax can't do anything for it. Now Lemon Pledge, that is a different story.
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