Brooks saddles - comparison?

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How many purpleheart razee jacks will you have to sell to
afford a Swallow? How many infill smoothers with Japanese
blades? If you're even making them anymore.

too many (G) I need a hollow close to the middle of the seat
I get a lot of pressure here. other then that and a bit too
wide is a great seat. I hope loosing weight will help.

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Steve Knight <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

How many purpleheart razee jacks will you have to sell to
afford a Swallow? How many infill smoothers with Japanese
blades? If you're even making them anymore.

too many (G) I need a hollow close to the middle of the
seat I get a lot of pressure here. other then that and
a bit too wide is a great seat. I hope loosing weight
will help.

The Swift is narrower than your Team Pro. Narrower along the
nose and narrower in the back. But no Brooks has the
cutout/hollow in the middle of the seat like many of the new
plastic torture devices. If you need this feature, then the
Brooks saddle are probably not going to work. The B-17
Narrow is a bit narrower than the Swift in back. Not sure if
the nose is as narrow as the Swift because the B-17 has the
leather wrap all the way down the sides along the nose
whereas the Swift more or less stops the leather near the
top along the nose. So if you want to try a narrower Brooks
without spending $140 for the swift, the B-17 Narrow might
work. Around $60 from Nashbar and others. But it does not
have the hollow in the middle.

Quoted message said:

The Swift is narrower than your Team Pro. Narrower along
the nose and narrower in the back. But no Brooks has the
cutout/hollow in the middle of the seat like many of the
new plastic torture devices. If you need this feature, then
the Brooks saddle are probably not going to work.

it's just the spot between before the family jewels that
gets too much pressure. otherwise my sit bones are really
happy. if the seat was a bit more flat that would help. till
I loose more weight I doubt any saddle will be perfect.

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Donald Gillies said:

Mark H. said:

Should I try the Swift? Looks like a good start. What
about the B-17, Team Pro? And why? I had a Brooks, rusty
memory cells may recall, some decades ago with my vintage
10-speed; at least I'm leather saddle friendly.

This is a question only your butt can answer. Basically, if
you have wide hips, stick to a B-17 or its brethren. A
little more narrow, then a Brooks Pro.

Or a B-17 Narrow, which is as cheap as a B-17.
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Quoted message said:

How many purpleheart razee jacks will you have to sell to
afford a Swallow? How many infill smoothers with Japanese
blades? If you're even making them anymore.

Steve Knight <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

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too many (G) I need a hollow close to the middle of the
seat I get a lot of pressure here. other then that and
a bit too wide is a great seat. I hope loosing weight
will help.

Russell Seaton said:

The Swift is narrower than your Team Pro. Narrower along
the nose and narrower in the back. But no Brooks has the
cutout/hollow in the middle of the seat like many of the
new plastic torture devices. If you need this feature,
then the Brooks saddle are probably not going to work. -snip-

TGear used to sell a Brooks Pro with a diamond-shape
cutout in the middle (30mm x 60mm)and a TGear nameplate
on the back.

I'm not _advising_ you to whack a hole in your Brooks, but
it has been done.
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Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1
April, 1971

"Mark H." <[email hidden]> wrote [snip]

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For those that have different models on different bikes,
is there any other specificity that you can share about
the characteristics that led you to choose them for those
bikes? Are the bikes for different uses?

I have Brooks on both my road bikes, but when I got the new
ride, much lighter all-around, I went with the ti rail Swift
to save a little weight but still enjoy the Brooks cachet;
otherwise I would have stayed with the B17.

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here, that's a full season of use). --Roy Zipris