"My First" Brooks!
04-06-07, 08:52 AM
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"My First" Brooks!
Y'all gotta dig this:
https://www.khsbicycles.com/06_urban_x_07.htm
Dig the saddle on this ride; I just bought an Urban-x yesterday (pretty decent deal btw, if your local shop stocks them), and the saddle is a "KHS Classic w/ Rivets". It's more or less a Brooks "Conquest", but with a grey plastic (sorry, vinyl) covering instead of leather. The rivets seem to be purely aesthetic, but that's ok.
I love this saddle! I own and have toured with the B17 (and it's true that nothing beats Brooks), but I gotta say, for daily commuting with a cheap-ish seat, this saddle seems to straddle the division perfectly. Perhaps if there's someone out there you know who WOULD love a Brooks but isn't confident enough to buy one you could get them riding this...from there it's only a small step up to the real thing.
https://www.khsbicycles.com/06_urban_x_07.htm
Dig the saddle on this ride; I just bought an Urban-x yesterday (pretty decent deal btw, if your local shop stocks them), and the saddle is a "KHS Classic w/ Rivets". It's more or less a Brooks "Conquest", but with a grey plastic (sorry, vinyl) covering instead of leather. The rivets seem to be purely aesthetic, but that's ok.
I love this saddle! I own and have toured with the B17 (and it's true that nothing beats Brooks), but I gotta say, for daily commuting with a cheap-ish seat, this saddle seems to straddle the division perfectly. Perhaps if there's someone out there you know who WOULD love a Brooks but isn't confident enough to buy one you could get them riding this...from there it's only a small step up to the real thing.
04-06-07, 09:01 AM
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Leather... that's the "key" component of the Brooks saddles. Once the leather has "broken in" it is fitted perfectly to your kiester. Once a vinyl saddle is "broken in"... it's just "broken."
04-07-07, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by InTheRain
Leather... that's the "key" component of the Brooks saddles. Once the leather has "broken in" it is fitted perfectly to your kiester. Once a vinyl saddle is "broken in"... it's just "broken."
Nice bike, BTW.
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I've been out twice on my Brooks B-17 for a total of 58 miles and after the second ride it already started feeling better, after I tilted the nose back down to level. I didn't slide around very much and I really think its going to be ok. Can't wait to get on it tomorrow afternoon
