Welcome to the club. I am fairly confident you will appreciate the saddle long term.
Perfect color for your Atlantis too. On Jan 19, 7:18 pm, Rene Sterental <orthie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yesterday my new Berthoud Touring saddle arrived from Wallingford Bikes. > Natural color, Cro-Moly rails. I installed it last night and rode it today > to work (and Caltrain) to see whether it would feel as expected from the > other list members' feedback or not. > > I have to say that the initial impression is awesome. Feels just like a > saddle should, and compared the the B17 I had previously is just no > comparison at all. The width is perfect, the flat top is exactly what I was > looking for to do away with the B17's significantly nose-up position to > prevent sliding forward, and more significantly, the feeling that there > isn't any excess material rubbing my inner thighs or anywhere else for that > matter; just my seatbones perfectly suspended. > > The color is really beautiful; somewhere between the Brooks honey and > antique brown, but you can see from the photos that it matches very well > with either (honey Brooks tape on the Atlantis handlebar) as well as with > the Sackville leather bits. > > I did some minor tweaks, basically sliding it forward to the mid-rail > position as I had initially mounted it as far back as it would go but found > that my knees were too far back for optimal pedaling. I angled it upwards as > well to prevent from sliding forward but by no means is the angle or the > nose anywhere near what I had to do with the B17. I'll get a better feel for > the new position on the ride home tonight and whether it puts more pressure > on my hands or not. > > I expect to get more acquainted with the saddle by the weekend and if so, > expect to see a number of various Brooks saddles (mostly B17) to be put up > for sale. I'll need to be able to finance another Berthoud saddle for the > Homer... :-) > > Initial photos can be viewed here: *http://tinyurl.com/4fuczwh* > > René -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
