Brooks saddle Breaking in
02-19-12 | 01:29 PM
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Just treat it like a traditional saddle.
Old cowboys would take traditional western saddles and throw them in the water trough. Let it soak for a few minutes in the water and then ride them literally until they're dry. Then use fat-laddened greases like neatsfeet to get oil back into the saddle. What's it all mean? Ride the thing until it molds through sweat, heat and weight.
Old cowboys would take traditional western saddles and throw them in the water trough. Let it soak for a few minutes in the water and then ride them literally until they're dry. Then use fat-laddened greases like neatsfeet to get oil back into the saddle. What's it all mean? Ride the thing until it molds through sweat, heat and weight.
02-19-12 | 05:47 PM
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02-19-12 | 05:52 PM
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I'll take em
What I love about the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Brooks threads on the interwebz is the number of crazy things people do to try to break in their saddles faster. I recall a thread on BF where a guy suggesting submerging the damn things in motor oil, and of course, someone tried it and reported how his saddle was wrecked.
What I love about the 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Brooks threads on the interwebz is the number of crazy things people do to try to break in their saddles faster. I recall a thread on BF where a guy suggesting submerging the damn things in motor oil, and of course, someone tried it and reported how his saddle was wrecked.
Just treat it like a traditional saddle.
Old cowboys would take traditional western saddles and throw them in the water trough. Let it soak for a few minutes in the water and then ride them literally until they're dry. Then use fat-laddened greases like neatsfeet to get oil back into the saddle. What's it all mean? Ride the thing until it molds through sweat, heat and weight.
Old cowboys would take traditional western saddles and throw them in the water trough. Let it soak for a few minutes in the water and then ride them literally until they're dry. Then use fat-laddened greases like neatsfeet to get oil back into the saddle. What's it all mean? Ride the thing until it molds through sweat, heat and weight.
02-19-12 | 07:40 PM
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i use snoseal....grab an old, clean t-shirt and rub a healthy coat on the bottom and leave it.
then, i take a hairdryer and heat the top of the saddle- get it nice and warm...
then, rub on a light coat with an old clean t-shirt....heat it back up with the hairdryer and buff it out. repeat 1 time.
ride saddle forever- never treat it again.
i've ridden a few different brooks thousands of miles and this method is perfect.
doesn't really "speed" the process, just waterproofs it for life and makes it just a *tad* softer during the "break in" period....
then, i take a hairdryer and heat the top of the saddle- get it nice and warm...
then, rub on a light coat with an old clean t-shirt....heat it back up with the hairdryer and buff it out. repeat 1 time.
ride saddle forever- never treat it again.
i've ridden a few different brooks thousands of miles and this method is perfect.
doesn't really "speed" the process, just waterproofs it for life and makes it just a *tad* softer during the "break in" period....
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