Re: [RBW] Leather Saddles - What do you Wear

2025-01-23 Thread Will Boericke
The Pro is my go to saddle shape; I'm also narrow-hipped. I like to buy them used to shorten the break in period. For bikes that I ride for longer than an hour, it's plastic saddles and padded shorts though. Will On Thu, Jan 23, 2025, 12:42 PM Jay wrote: > Thanks for the responses thus far! >

Re: [RBW] Leather Saddles - What do you Wear

2025-01-23 Thread Jay
Thanks for the responses thus far! In buying the Team Pro I'm very much experimenting to see if it's better than my C17's, and whether that may happen on one bike, all of them, or none of them. In my experience, the set up is crucial and I'm really going to take my time experimenting with set

Re: [RBW] Leather Saddles - What do you Wear

2025-01-23 Thread J-D Bamford
My skinny butt generally prefers cycling shorts. That said, I agree with the remarks here that a poorly designed pad gets in the way and could chafe. I used to wear cycling padded liners under civilian shorts/knickers for long yet casual city rides, but those liners fall into the poorly designe

Re: [RBW] Leather Saddles - What do you Wear

2025-01-23 Thread Kim H.
@Jay, I ride a Brooks B67S sprung saddle on my Clem. I have to purchase two pairs of X-Tiger 5D cycling shorts off of Amazon. I have one pad of the cut out from one short and sewn on top of the other by the local seamstress at the dry cleaners. The purpose of this to get the most padding on my

Re: [RBW] Leather Saddles - What do you Wear

2025-01-23 Thread Richard Rose
I’ve largely given up using padded liners since getting my B17 saddles on my two Riv’s. On the vast majority of rides ranging from 20-60 miles I am using merino boxers under a variety of cycling branded (Kitsbow, OrNot, Search & State) though not cycling specific shorts or pants. No comfort or othe