On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 2:00:53 PM UTC-7, ascpgh wrote: > > Brooks is going for marketing glam over staid performance and > dependability. >
I'm not sure this is a new thing. The way Brooks has been marketing their leather saddles is *very* much pushing a lifestyle; it just may be more obvious with the C-line saddles because you're not used to them. (And the carbon-railed C's are actually quite nice; they're better than the steel-railed ones. It's possible that the way the carbon rails flex works better with the rubber+cotton top than the steel rails did. On my personal list of saddle comfort the 145mm C13 feels better than the similarly-widthed Brooks (the Swift?) and Berthoud, if not as nice as the Berthoud Aspin (I can't speak to the Brooks Pro, even though they used to be my go-to saddle; after having two of them collapse after only 25k miles it sort of put me off on them.) -david parsons -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
