I'll add an anecdotal story… A couple of years back, I rode a long distance ride from SF to Ok City with an Aussie and a Brit (no, this is not a bad bar joke). Both of those fellows were riding on expensive plastic gel saddles, me a moderately priced Brooks B17 on my Atlantis. It was a 6 week-ride, and I never suffered any discomfort or other butt malady during the ride. I never rode in padded shorts.
My companions, however, spent most of the ride in high discomfort if not all out agony. It was very hot most days, and their sweating butts broke out in all sorts of hot-spots and saddle sores. They each tried a new and softer saddle, even more padding, lotions and salves, etc., and nothing relieved their problems. I tried to explain that it was rather counter-intuitive, but the more firm the saddle and less padded the butt, the more comfortable it would be. I explained that the brooks was really a very taught suspended platform that conformed to my butt and allowed some air flow, but neither bought into my explanation, and each just kept salving up at each stop and complaining. ________________________________ From: Ron Mc <bulldog...@gmail.com> To: rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, November 23, 2012 2:32:46 PM Subject: [RBW] Are Brooks Saddle Worth the Money? Is your butt worth it ? Mine is. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/nRITW-HrsmMJ. 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. -- 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.
